An assassination also produces a serious wound in democracy; violence as a substitute for dialogue, of course, for criminals.
It was unimaginable that former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe would be the target of an attack, but it seems that the world has entered a cycle of accelerated events: Boris Johnson resigns from the leadership of his party, and soon from the Government; government implosion in Sri Lanka; war in Ukraine; overtones of political violence in Brazil, among others.
Due to the information that the Japanese authorities have provided about the author of the shooting, Tetsuya Yamagami, he acted perhaps motivated by the hatred incubated by his circumstances: unemployment and family economic decline. Elements that do not justify a criminal act so, possibly, his mental state was not optimal. The authorities will be in charge of determining it.
There is no perfect country, but Japan, compared to the United States and Mexico, is an idyllic space, if we are talking about violence.
In the last five years, 14 people have lost their lives as a result of gunshot wounds, as a result of 70 shootings; 49 of them linked to organized crime (yakuza). The above, published by The Washington Post on Saturday.
The last record of serious political violence in Japan occurred in 2007, when the mayor of Nagasaki, Ito Itcho, was shot dead by an organized crime figure.
In 1960, Shinzo Abe’s grandfather, who was serving as prime minister, survived an attempted stabbing assassination.
In the United States, its Constitution, written more than 200 years ago, allows carrying weapons as if they were candy. Contemporizing the laws to the 21st century would not go down well with Americans. Rationality obliges.
In Mexico, it should supposedly be difficult to buy weapons, and yet the number of fatalities under the yoke of bullets tells us otherwise. It seems that the border between the United States and Mexico is non-existent for the movement of weapons, but not for the passage of migrants.
With the assassination of the former Japanese prime minister, it has become clear once again that the political reality of countries like Japan is ignored by the Mexican media. We ignore that globalization has dwarfed the size of the planet. We play ethnocentrism where our navel is our highest vision of life.
A Russian-like invasion of Ukraine is putting pressure on the domestic economies of much of the world. And not even in this way does the president of Mexico dare to articulate a foreign policy.
Shinzo Abe was a revolutionary in foreign policy: he understood that alliances had to be reconfigured. He noted that China’s moves would pose a threat to Japan; possible conflicts in Taiwan and North Korea; tensions in the Pacific escalate. Indonesia seeks neutrality; Syria, in strengthened alliance with Russia, potentially reinforced by Iran.
Pakistan, closer to China and North Korea; Morocco, harmonizing relationship with Spain to the detriment of Algeria.
Latin America, disunited and with an excess of populism.
In terms of security, Shinzo Abe tried to modify the Constitution to deploy the Japanese army abroad under threat scenarios. Perhaps that was the reason why he tried to maintain a good relationship with Donald Trump.
Abe tried to get his country’s economy back on its feet, in the doldrums since the crisis of the 1990s and the then-recent Fukushima disaster (2011). In his so-called abenomics are monetary stimulus strategies, increased public spending and some reforms. The results were discreet.
Among its debts, perhaps, is the increase in the participation of women in the labor market.
The end of Shinzo Abe is cruel. An opportune moment for Mexico to learn more about the Japanese reality.
Consultant, academic, editor
Globali… what?He was a research professor in the Department of International Studies at ITAM, published the book Referendum Twitter and was an editor and collaborator in various newspapers such as 24 Horas, El Universal, Milenio. He has published in magazines such as Foreign Affairs, Le Monde Diplomatique, Life & Style, Chilango and Revuelta. He is currently an editor and columnist at El Economista.
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