“Buen Fin” Maybe it shouldn’t be good after all.

This weekend in Mexico our own version of Black Friday is going on calling it Buen Fin. But this year, unrest has roiled Mexican society in the wake pf he murder of the 43 students in Ayotzinapa. People are trying to stop this holiday shopping and get the government to talk and do what it is supposed to: stop insecurity and protect the people.

For three years now every year in Mexico, companies decided we will have something called Buen Fin (Good Weekend as literal translation). The companies and stores that subscribe to the event have special prices and discounts for people get the change to buy inexpensive presents for Christmas. Every year stores are full with people trying to take advantage of the discounts and get some christmas presents or buy in a better price stuff they need. Though actually most of people know prices or discounts are not quite real, but the options of monthly payments are what more attract the people.

The thing is, this year, with all that is happening, the insecurity problems and the disappeared students, the whole country is indignant and are actually asking everyone not to participate in this sale. They are telling people no to Buen Fin. In Guerrero, Oaxaca, Michoacan and Chiapas; people blocked the entrance to some of the stores and have the ones in charge worried as they won’t get the sales they were expecting.

In Mexico city theater students blocked the Coyoacan mall demanding justice for the 43 Ayotzinapa students. Peacefully and screaming “¡No al Buen Fien, nos faltan 43!” (No Buen Fin, we are still missing 43!”) the students entered the mall with photographs of the missing students.

Some persons ran and hide afraid of what could happened but some others joined the demands of the students. So the people are still worried about what happened and what is happening with the students and innocent people, and the rich people just keeps worrying about money. I am not an expert in economics, and I really don’t know if this sale helps the country’s economy but I am sure it in a way affects people’s economy. For like around two weeks I have seen images asking the people not to buy anything this weekend.

Many people buy, during this weekend, electronics devices. These products are expensive in the Mexican market but with discounts and the monthly payment they can some how afford it. But then they get deep debts, maybe they lose their jobs or something happens and they can’t pay anymore. They make us think this is a good opportunity but I just think is a way to maintain people paying and in debt with the bank and then, comes christmas, and more special sales and then next year again the Buen Fin, sometimes people are still paying for last year’s purchases.

What I also think is, well we knew this sale was coming, but the Mexican government is known for making out stuff to distract people so they don’t look what they do. But this time, I think it is important that still some people are fighting and don’t letting this go. They keep reminding the rest what we are struggling with. Last week the General Attorney Murillo Karam, in a live interview about the missing students he said at the microphone “last question, I am tired”. People didn’t let this go. Like yeah, he has been, or at least that is what he says, working on getting the students back; but the thing is it has been a long time now and they don’t have any answers, any results. So people, thanks to social networks, started criticizing him of how that was possible when if he really did his job, none of this would’ve happen.

I am going out of the theme. So with all this stuff that is happening, when celebrities and people in charge of mexican security are taking the subject like if there was nothing to worry about, the rest of the people are fighting and remembering the mexican people not to let this go, because is not only 43 students, is a lot of people that has been disappearing for a long time now and, curious fact, every time PRI party is in charge.

I don’t know how is the real situation, since I am not there, I don’t know if the stores are really full or not as they are every year, is all just what I can hear from the news which I know sometimes are not quite real, but I hope weather people is buying or not, they remember the problems we are facing, is not only about the students, is not that we really need people getting debts and buying stuff, if they need them they are going to buy anyway. Is about making something to stop the government doing what ever they want with us. Maybe the stores don’t sell what they expect, but I think all this problem must concern them too. And we, the people, must not forget.