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Political Work
I began my political activity sort of indirectly and involuntarily as I traveled alongside my father from a very early age in his political tours throughout Mexico. When I started my undergraduate studies in Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science in 1975, I actively participated in the Mexican Workers Party (PMT) from the start of its founding. I was president of the Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science Base Committee at UNAM (1975-1979). Later on, I became the Finances Secretary of the PMT State Committee in Michoacan, Mexico (1981).
I lived in Morelia, Michoacan during the process that gave birth to the Unified Socialist Party of Mexico (PSUM), which by the end had not integrated with PMT. Likewise I participated in the process that united PSUM and PMT with the founding of a new political party, the Mexican Socialist Party (PMS). After Heberto Castillo declined his presidential candidacy in 1988 in favor of the candidate Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, I participated as a simple militant in the foundation of the Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) of which I was a member until the year 2000.
 Once it was statistically evident that Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas could not win the presidential elections in the 2000 presidential race, I called the people to vote for the end of the hegemonic power the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) continued to hold. For this reason I was integrated to the political left that proposed the “Useful Vote” in favor of Vicente Fox Quesada for President of Mexico, and of Andrés Manuel López Obrador for Governor of Mexico City (D.F.) in the 2000 elections. I am currently writing a book relating my avatars around these circumstances which I’ve entitled In Between the Oxes’ Legs of the of which I have completed a couple of chapters: A Useful Beginning, and In Between the Oxes’ Legs (including an Annex with important documents).
Later on I was invited by Patricia Mercado, Claudia del Castillo and Ricardo Raphael to join an emerging social democrat political party, Possible Mexico (México Posible) where I participated from April 7th of 2003 until July of that year since the party failed to obtain the number of votes needed to get its official register. I ran as a candidate to Congress under Mexico Posible in the year 2003.
Interested in the creation of this new modern political social democrat party I participated as a member of the Promotion Committee that constructed the social democratic arm that gave origin to The Social Democrat Alternative (Alternativa Socialdemócrata) of which I was candidate for the Mexican Senate representing Mexico City’s Federal District in 2006. As a Mexican scientist I wanted to bring topics of Education, Science and Technology into electoral political campaigns. I think they are priorities for the new millennium’s human needs. Unfortunately the written and electronic media considered these topics to be of secondary importance and reflected these discussions very minimally.
Sadly Alternativa (now PSD) ended up in traditional politician hands, who see political activity as a way of making a living off of public budget. They have had alliances with PRI in the 2007 election in Veracruz. Recently (2008) they ejected the political project Patricia Mercado represented out of the Party. Those were important reasons that lead me to leave Alternativa.
 I have expressed my political opinion throughout the years in several media. I have written about a hundred journalistic collaborations regarding political analysis in the Magazines Siempre!, and Quehacer Político, as well as in the newspaper La Crónica de Hoy. The Foxist Administration’s censure as well as the self-censure of the media have stopped me from continuing to write in the aforementioned media. For the last five years I have collaborated, on a monthly basis, in the online magazine Tiempos de Reflexión which I consider a free space for political and cultural expression. The column I write in each of these media I have titled Trasquila (Shearing). I have chosen this name due to my involvement with agriculture (I am a professor in animal science, breeding and genetics) and because it defines the act of undressing, or leaving something open and uncovered.
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