Mexican

A site search for "Gorrostieta" will return no hits on domestic news sites like the Huffington Post, MSNBC or NPR. Yet, more global sources like the Daily Mail and the BBC both reported on the November assassination of Maria Santos Gorrostieta, former mayor of the town of Tiquicheo within the western state of Michoacan, merely outskirt-ting Mexico City proper. Michoacan is contemporarily, albeit tragically, infamous for [brutal] femicide. Being not just female but also a prominent political figure, Gorrostieta had survived two assassination attempts prior to the third and final.

Gorrostieta had taken a firm stance against Mexico's drug cartel reign. Her position cost not just her life, but that of her former husband's, and she leaves behind three children (her daughter being the prime witness to Gorrostieta's fatal abduction). Throughout her tenure as mayor, she suffered serious injuries, including gunshot wounds that left her in permanent pain and disfigurement. She posted pictures of her injuries in support of her strong stance to not back down from her position against the cartel. They, as well as that of her partially nude dead body, are available online, but with all do respect to her, this blog will refrain.

No witty remarks for this posting, but since it somehow eclipsed the surveillance of much better informed American sources, it seemed like a disservice to not acknowledge it. Which begs and begs the question to our country in whole and part: Why do we continue to pretend like Mexico does not share a border with us?

Life sometimes can be Mexican.

Mexican: --adj.
  of or pertaining to Mexico, an arm of the Atlantic bordered by the U.S.