Mexico gets called out...by its children. Awesome video.

I don't usually bump, but this is too good to leave page 1 yet...
 
My Spanish isn't good enough to follow the monologue at the end. Can someone give me a precis?
 
My Spanish isn't good enough to follow the monologue at the end. Can someone give me a precis?

Something about, "The future you're offering us looks like shit. Stop being politicians who do nothing and start caring about the future of your country."
 
Something about, "The future you're offering us looks like shit. Stop being politicians who do nothing and start caring about the future of your country."

Ah...that's a very subtle translation.
 
Ah...that's a very subtle translation.
What the hell are they complaining about? America is moving jobs to Mexico as fast as humanly possible. Poverty should be eliminated there by now with all the work they're taking from us.
 
I don't know half a word of Spanish, but that was impressive anyway, just from a production pov.
 
that was good.

the last part translated -

if this is the future that awaits me, i don't want it
enough of working for your (political) parties and not for the people
enough of working to fix the country just on the surface.
Doña Josefina, Don Andrés Manuel, Don Enrique y Don Gabriel time is up.
Mexico has bottomed out. Are you only fighting for the (presidential) chair, or are you fighting to change the future of our country?

we are millions who want a better country.
 
that was good.

the last part translated -

if this is the future that awaits me, i don't want it
enough of working for your (political) parties and not for the people
enough of working to fix the country just on the surface.
Doña Josefina, Don Andrés Manuel, Don Enrique y Don Gabriel time is up.
Mexico has bottomed out. Are you only fighting for the (presidential) chair, or are you fighting to change the future of our country?

we are millions who want a better country.

You're sexy when you translate :rose:
 
Source Mundo Narco

The ad sponsored by the GNP began to spread yesterday on YouTube and television spots, as it questions the indifference of the presidential candidates to violence and corruption in Mexico.

The PRI legislator Miguel Angel Granados said that the short film may or may not reflect the reality of the country. "But what is despicable is to use children in the roles of thieves, corrupt cops, beggars, bribers, corrupt officials, kidnappers and hostages, protesters and police repressors, smugglers and also showing a large number of the crimes that are actually committed in the country, and does it with stridency and sensationalism." he said. therefore ruled by effectively requiring that the Department of Government request the removal of this documentary, without hiding behind the freedom of expression.

The PT Teresa Guadalupe Reyes asked in turn that the National Human Rights Commission review that the video is an alleged violation of the rights and protection of the children. "It's a very grotesque video that violates the rights of children and shows remnants of aggression and dirty class warfare, placing children at the same level as the criminals themselves." she charged.

It was also the PT federal deputy who took the matter in hand by calling the movie "unacceptable" and "excessive". Describing the use of children dressed as kidnappers or traffickers, or federal police or robbers. "I can share or not what is happening right now in the country and what is the situation that prevails. What I cannot accept, and I find it outrageous, is the act of armed children, smoking, using guns and also kidnapping. I think it shows a bad example." she said.

Without mentioning names, the legislator questioned the integrity of the people who broadcasted the film. In defense, the filmakers stated, "We do not consider those who have children at this age, at this level, that this is appropriate for children in Mexico, and less to give an image of our country to the world in this nature,". Paul Escudero, deputy coordinator of Ecologist Green, advocated the removal of the film because children should not be subject to the "incitement" of violence or crime. For his part, PRI, Trinidad López Padilla, president of the Education Committee, asked his colleagues to "not get way over your head" because the important thing about this ad is to send a message to the political classes and to promote effectively the changes that Mexico needs to make.

http://borderland-beat.924382.n3.nabble.com/Ninos-Incomodos-td3904820.html

A video “mockumentary” that shows children as kidnappers, corrupt cops and drug traffickers sparked a fierce debate in violence-torn Mexico on Thursday, with some people calling it a needed wake-up call while others described it as political manipulation or even child abuse.
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The video’s vision of a smog-choked, apocalyptic Mexico where kid cops crack down on tiny anti-corruption protesters while pint-sized lazy or corrupt politicians stand by is manipulative, and no candidate could afford to criticize it, TV critic and newspaper columnist Alvaro Cueva said.

“No sane candidate is going to say, ‘I want a future with crime, a future with criminals,’” Cueva said.

He called the video damaging and “a very clear violation of the (electoral) law.”

It is a sensitive question in Mexico, where many people believe the 2006 elections were unfairly influenced by a series of privately produced and sponsored ads that sought to inspire fear of Lopez Obrador, warning Mexicans they could “lose everything” if he were elected. He narrowly lost to Calderon.

“The only thing this video does is to further muddy the election campaigns,” Cueva said. “This video does nothing but foment a sense of desperation and despair.”

While the 2006 “fear” ads against Lopez Obrador, sponsored by private business groups, benefited Calderon, Cueva thinks this year’s fear-video benefits the presidential front-runner, Pena Nieto, whose PRI party has extensive machines in most states that could help him win in the event of a low voter turnout.

“When one watches this video, one loses any desire to vote, and so it foments a low turnout, and in an environment of low turnout, the winner is the PRI candidate, Enrique Pena Nieto,” Cueva said.

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But some objected to the video’s use of children.

“It is unacceptable, scandalous, that they have shown children smoking, armed, kidnapping people with pistols and locking them in trunks,” Labor Party congressman Mario di Costanzo said on the floor of Congress on Wednesday.

PRI congressman Miguel Angel Garcia Granados called on the Calderon administration to ban the video.

“We are not going to solve the big problems this country faces with sensationalism and shrillness, and certainly not by using underage children in documentaries,” said Garcia Granados.

http://voxxi.com/video-of-kid-violence-stirs-storm-in-mexico/
 
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