Coming to terms with the past: the Mexican Juncture between remembrance and forgetfulness

• Autores: Jaime Olaiz González
• Localización: Erinnern und Vergessen / coord. por Oliver M. Brupbacher, Nadine Grotkamp, Jana Osterkamp, Tilmann Röder, Stefan Ruppert, David Sörgel, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89975-595-4, págs. 312-325
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Currently, Mexico is experiencing a restoration from more than seventy years of a violent authoritarian regime as well as a political, economic and social transition into a modern democracy. Nevertheless, there is a misunderstanding about the elements that enable such a transition. It is not only by the means of institutional and economic reforms that the country will achieve its democratic consolidation, but, above all, by means of a clear recognition of its recent past in order to fulfill the virtuous circle of Truth, Justice and Forgiveness that Pope John Paul II called the Pedagogy of Peace. The time has come to place Mexico in the juncture between remembering and forgetting its recent past.