(Photo credit Jessica Rinaldi Reuters)
Six years of his bloody, senseless drug war, 100,000 dead
and 25,000 people missing, and Harvard grants Ex-Mexican President Felipe
Calderon the first Angelopoulos Global Public Leader fellowship.
As Author Charles Bowden commented about this Harvard Crimson article http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/1/31/calderon-protests-kennedy-school/
"After 375 years I am surprised Harvard
University can’t tell right from wrong."
Harvard's Kennedy School Dean
David Ellwood stated the Kennedy School administrators believe the fellowship offers students the
opportunity to “engage with world leaders and to ask difficult questions on
important public policy issues.”
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/12/4/defend-calderon-appointment/
Seriously? How many
of Harvard's students or faculty were raised in areas such as Ciudad Juarez
where Calderon's drug war has torn communities apart? This is about the privileged and the poor
where the former lives a secluded and moneyed life completely insulated from
the drug war horror of the later.
The actual difficult question here HKS Dean Ellwood is
"Why does Harvard ignore Calderon's legacy of blood and corruption?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/13001-calderon-reign-ends-with-six-year-mexican-death-toll-near-120000
Defenders of Calderon give him a hero status as having the
"huevos" to take on organized crime.
HELLO, this is Mexico, where organized crime clandestinely runs the
majority of government, politics, the military, and all federal, state and
local police.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/19/world/americas/mexico-detains-3-generals-tied-to-drug-cartel.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
For those of you who don't know, the world's most powerful cartel leader, El Chapo Guzman is still
running free in Mexico after he escaped from jail some 12 years ago. My guess is that Caldron's "war on
drugs" was just an excuse for "government" sponsored corporate (cartel) takeover which employed
non-other than El Chapo Guzman. Read this NPR article questioning why El
Chapo's Sinaloa cartel seemed to be favored in the drug war.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/03/mexican-drug-lord-joaquin_n_1073905.html
http://www.npr.org/2010/05/19/126906809/mexico-seems-to-favor-sinaloa-cartel-in-drug-war
So tell me, just how much "Veritas" (Harvard's
motto on their coat of arms) is there with Calderon's selection as the first
Angelopoulos Global Leader fellowship?
Harvard has shot down (surprise-surprise) our bi-national
petition to have Calderon's fellowship rescinded. Here
is the email sent to co-petitioner Eduardo Cortes and me.
Dean_Ellwood's_Office@hks.harvard.edu
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To
j_m_randolph@hotmail.com, cecortesr@hotmail.com
From:
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Office, Dean's (Dean_Ellwood's_Office@hks.harvard.edu)
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Sent:
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Tue 1/29/13 9:57 AM
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To:
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j_m_randolph@hotmail.com
(j_m_randolph@hotmail.com); cecortesr@hotmail.com (cecortesr@hotmail.com)
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Dear Mr. Cortes and Mr.
Randolph,
Thank you for taking the time
to hand deliver a copy of your petition. We understand your concerns and
respect the effort you have made.
One of the fundamental tenets
of the Kennedy School is the free exchange of ideas. In keeping with our
educational mission, the School has a long tradition of providing an
opportunity for leaders from around the world to speak to and interact with the
community on important public policy issues. Just as important are the
opportunities that these engagements provide students to ask unfiltered and
often challenging questions of these leaders.
Mr. Calderón’s one-year
fellowship will provide members of our community with the unique opportunity to
engage in rigorous discussion and active debate, while exploring the choices
and the consequences of alternative strategies for dealing with the hardest
problems faced by national leaders. We consider this to be an integral part of
our school’s academic and intellectual life.
I commend your deep commitment
and your efforts on behalf of what you believe.
Respectfully,
David
David T.
Ellwood, Dean
Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy
Harvard Kennedy School
79
JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Our new goal is
100,000 signatures: one for every life
sacrificed as a result of Caldron's ill-fated drug war. Please help with signatures. I will deliver the appeal to Harvard again once
it gains 100,000 signatures to .
http://www.change.org/petitions/harvard-100-000-signatures-one-for-each-person-sacrificed-during-felipe-calder%C3%B3n-s-senseless-war
