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| Guerrero Children's Parliament Photo: Rogelio Agustín Esteban |
Chilpancingo, Guerrero - Violence is the new way to enslave society, agreed school children of high academic achievement participating in the Eighth Children's Parliament. They arrived at the premises of the State Legislature from the seven regions of the state, their school averages ranging between 9.5 and 10, their dreams average, they are contributing their efforts so the reality of life in the country might substantially change.
But with the positions that they took at the tribunal, the majority of the children's parliament members assumed critical positions, to such an extent that they referred to violence as the new way to enslave the population.
Alisson Vanessa Vallejo said that slavery is caused by violence and the labor and sexual exploitation of people. She recalled the fourteenth postulate of the Sentiments of the Nation enacted by José María Morelos y Pavón, where he states:
"Congress has the obligation to vote in favor of a new law always and when it takes into account the people who elected them with their vote of confidence, approaching them and listening to their opinions and negotiating so no one is harmed."Another participant added:
"We are bombarded with so many negative things, one thing is preached and another thing is done."She proposed the removal from office of people who engage in acts of corruption,
"that the law may be applied to the highest official who commits an offense, it is time to retake the true ideals."David Guadalupe Rojas Reyes, a fifth-grade student at the February 24 Elementary School of Chilpancingo stated that slavery still exists, although many are reluctant to admit it.
"In our country, the new form of slavery is marked by violence and insecurity. We are enslaved to live in a home without the right to travel freely through the street, without hope of fully enjoying the parks."Rojas Reyes's comments left the young audience in the legislative chamber speechless.
Axel Ruiz Valencia also spoke about the new forms of slavery that exist and condemned that there are children who working and who therefore cannot attend school.
"Today Mexico has boys and girls exploited both for their labor and sexually, even by their own parents or relatives. Today the drug dealers kidnap children to train them and then they become assassins, that is also a form of slavery," he pointed out.
Iker Soto Palacios considered it
"a great sadness that these understandings exist for the people and for the children; however, even more painful is that everything may be captured on paper and then forgotten."
... Spanish original