Friday, December 31, 2010  Dilemma for 2011 (and 2012, 2013, et
cetera)  This recent back and forth from the pages of Milenio
about the media treatment of insecurity continue an ongoing
dispute in Mexico, and make a fitting way to end the year.
First, Héctor Aguilar: The state of Rio de Janeiro and its
capital city have one tenth of the inhabitants of Mexico. To
equal Rio's violence, Mexico would have to have had since 2003
roughly 420,000 homicides, 80,000 civilians killed by the police
for resisting them and 320,000 disappeared.  What have the
authorities in Rio, the media outlets, and the Brazilian
government done with the violence? They have obtained a historic
triumph: they have made the city the host of the World Cup to be
held in 2014. And for Brazil, the host of the Olympics in 2016.
[For the record, he has it backwards here; the Olympics will be
in Rio, while the World Cup is nationwide.]  In the last seven
years there have been some 35,000 homicides associated with drug
trafficking and the war that