1st of may

Hi. I was thinking about writting about the events that happened in my town the last week on the first of May. Like you all know the 1st of May is the international workers day and worldwide is a holiday worldwide. Now, to understand the event I have to talk a little about in the context of the city I live in.

First of all, I live in Guadalajara which is the third biggest city in Mexico. Like all big cities, a large number of people lives here, and because of that we have denseheavy traffic. In a regular basis lots of persons come to the city to shop regularly, knowsee new places or resttake a break from their daily routines and obviously this increaseshappens more often on holidays.

Some people know that in Mexico we are fighting a battle with the drug industry. Most days everything is nice and quiet, but there are some tragic moments days when you realize that this is really a war that you can see in your streets. For example, from time to time appears a known drug related folk dead in a public place, wich is pityful and sad because most of the time are really young people from a poor and abusive background that were tempted by greed, the idea of being rich pretty fast and being able to protect their family from the injustices of inequality.

I think that's enough context, let's get back to the main subject. The past 1st of may around 9am almost 10am in the Revolución street and Matamoros (that's pretty close from the down town) appeared a burning bus. That was just the beginning of one of the worst and darker days of the drug war in Guadalajara. A minutes later a burning trailer was found on the road to Morelia (another city at the south), then in different zones in the beltway 6 more burning cars and buses, two more inside the city, some more buses appered on the vicinity roads, they start burning gas stations and banks.

Around 11 it was declared state of emergency, the social networks were a chaos no one knew exactly why that was happening, there were no buses, nobody was leaving their house or office. The streets were empty.

On the news a bus driver narrated how two enmascarade guys told the people inside the bus that they need to step out, when the people were outside they started to burn the bus using gasoline.