Santiago Meza Lopez was arrested for literally dissolving 300 bodies into chemicals. Mexican drug wars drive this particular industry. The 300 bodies (or lack thereof) were once rivals of a Mexican drug trafficking gang lead by kingpin Teodoro Garcia Simental. The drug wars are over drug trafficking routes through Tijuana. In a statement, Meza bluntly said that when he was "disposing of" the bodies he felt "nothing". It was just a job for him. He was payed $600 a week to get rid of 300 bodies. The question I pose to you is this: was it because of impoverishment that people do such things, or is it simply for the pure pursuit of money? Would this job be regarded as democratic since Meza didn't murder anybody, and he has the freedom to a contract? At what point can the government curtail this freedom to a contract, especially in a society as problematic and poverty-ridden as Mexico is today. Would it be worse to eliminate his opportunity to work in such an impoverished nation?
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That is so insane. It just seems so CSI and too dramatic to be real, but wow! Love the title of the post, and the deep, insightful rhetorical question posed at the end, and the author is just plain cool.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I don't think Meza dissolved those bodies out of pure hunger and impoverishment; at least the post and the consequent article didn't make it seem like it. His motives must have been purely fiscal, especially considering the fact that he had been dissolving bodies for 10 years, though I'm sure he felt some amount of guilt seeing as he so readily came clean. Poverty cannot be eradicated in world we live in, seeing as the standards that define it aren't static, but are continually changing alongside the arbitrary social norms we enforce as we evolve. Just think of it this way, when minimum wage was first established in 1938, minimum wage was 25 cents an hour. Our standards of living must have changed (along with inflation, the fluctuating value of the USD, etc...) if minimum wage in the US today is $6.55.