Guillermo Farber, a Mexican journalist and humorist, has
responded to news that ISIS has Mexico in its sights. Below is a translation from
the Spanish, with the original English in italics. Farber essentially lists some of
the horrors that the drug cartels, the security forces, and the general state
of insecurity have already visited on Mexico.
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| ISIS? Drug cartel? |
Terrorism's fans
ISIS has put Mexico in its sights. Instead of frightening
me, I’m curious to know what they can do to create "terror" among the Mexican population.
It’s a challenge for them.
Are they going to set fire to a nursery?
Will they kill and burn students?
Are they going to commit femicide?
Behead people? Dissolve bodies in acid? Murder the elderly?
Crash a plane during rush hour, on one of our busiest streets? Bring down official
helicopters? Place bombs in casinos, or the Pemex towers? Throw grenades in crowded
streets during a party? Hang bodies from bridges? Leave severed heads in the streets?
Dead bodies in malls?
Mmmm. Now that I think of it, our government really looks out
for us. They’ve been preparing us for years to deal with any kind of terrorist
attack.
Fear of ISIS?
(TE Wilson is the author of Mezcalero, a Detective Sánchez novel. Twitter: @TimothyEWilson)
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