Proceso: by "Monosapiens" [the Knowing Monkey] Jose Hernández
Panel 1: "Good day, children."
"Good day, teacher."
Panel 2: "Someone special is visiting us today."
Panel 3: "No, the Secretary of Education" [Emilio Chuayffet]"El Chicarito? [soccer star] El Chapo Guzman?" [Drug cartel boss]
Panel 4: "Hello, children. I come to corroborate that the education reform is a success and that education in Mexico is first world level."
[Sign reads] "Elementary School Liberators of the Highway of the Sun" [Reference to the multiple recent blockades by dissident teachers in Guerrero of the highway from Mexico City to Acapulco, called "Highway of the Sun"]Panel 5: "Let´s see, Chilpancingo is the capital of ...?"
"Grrr, grrr [stomach sounds]""Guerrero, very good."
Panel 6: "Who can tell me the name of the current president of Mexico?"
"Carlos Salinas!" [President 1988-94, promoter of NAFTA and thus seen by Mexicans as delivering Mexico into the "neoliberal" hands of global capitalism and the hand, moreover, directing the Peña Nieto government]
"Obama?"
"Roberto Palazuelos!" [Soap opera star; oblique reference to Peña Nieto's good looks and his wife's former career as a soap opera star]Panel 7: "Very good, now a little mathematics: If you divide one by three, what do we have?"
"A person cut into quarters."Panel 8: "Excellent! You answered very well! For your prize, pass by Ms. Junk Food for a nutritious lunch."
[Rosario Rosales, Secretary of Social Development, who this past week signed agreements with Pepsi and Nestle to participate in the Crusade Against Hunger.]Spanish original