Tolerance is not always good, chingada madre!

As some of you, my friends, [know] I went with Suly, my wife (from Mexico), to a show aboard a galley in Cancun. It was totally cool. At the end of it, a flock of Americans (it’s not clear whether they were drunk or in “full” use of their faculties) started to sing the stupidest that vomited like this: “Build the wall.”

Now, I have always been tolerant of the countries of the world, and I’ve wanted to believe that human stupidity and ignorance is characteristic of a small group of people, particularly on this subject. Especially having so many family and friends who live in the United States who I’ve seen be proud of the country they migrated to ― I’ve always wanted to stay out of the discussion. But there are things that you can’t tolerate, like speech that incites hatred, or what’s worse, stupid hate ― as Mexicans would say ― as in, dumb hate.

You know that I disagree almost completely with the politics practiced by the United States government. Likewise, in these times we must be aware that half of the citizens of the country up north voted for a fascist who could very well be compared to Hitler and nazism. Realize, then, my dear Latin Americans, that at least that half considers that all who live south of Texas are Mexican. To them neither Guatemalans, Hondurans, Venezuelans, Colombians, Argentines nor Peruvians exist. There’s no difference. We are all regarded as Mexicans. That how arrogant they are. And with that same cretinism they praise and support the decisions of their new fascist president.

Latin Americans: We cannot be tolerant or even less mediators or flexible with these kinds of harmful attitudes, just like we can’t be tolerant with lies or with attacks against a person’s or a people’s dignity. No one told me about it: I lived it and it hurt and it bothered me and it filled me with rage, sadness and impotence.

Latin Americans: When you see a brother being insulted or beaten, don’t support the perpetrator, don’t join his beating by making fun of him, or insulting him or creating memes. Defend him because they are literally also insulting you. Feel it. We share the same story..

A government of that nature, .... must be repelled strongly, with all the tools that is our right to have at our disposal. Let us never again allow that anyone laughs in our face and, much less, in our own house. Because that’s not tolerance; that is to be dumb... [and] without character. And we, Latin Americans, weren’t raised to be anyone’s cute dog nor to put up with anyone’s boot. Long live a united Latin America!