Aliens profiled in Coahuila?

I’m surprised Patrick (Ganchoblog), who lives and writes from the great state of Coahuila, hasn’t weighed in on the “El Alien de Monclova”.

Inexplicata’s regular Mexican correspondent, Profa. Ana Luisa Cid writes that several reports have been filed with the police by residents of  Colonia Chinameca and colonia Alamo of encounters with a “alleged monster of humanoid characteristics and four legs”.  Dubbed by the press “El Alien” psychoanalyst Camilo Ramirez believes El Alien is a projection of social tensions created by the “drug war” and the resulting militarization of northern Mexico:

… when those at hand do not provide assistance, it is necessary to ask the aliens – meaning foreigners – for help. If authorities cannot help, there are the aliens. It provides meaning within the socio-cultural context when there is a lack of order, authority is fragmented, and the need for meaning arises. Perhaps children or teenagers can give meaning in these features,” he says.

He adds: “Beyond the alleged smokescreen created by the authorities to distract the public, or the fuel boycott on the weekend, or the registration of cellphones and the fear that these records will be misused, we are in a world of foreigners. When someone launches a deluded idea, if we perceive it the ravings of a madman, we are not measuring its social scope. A link exists.”

Alien, he says, means foreign. “To humans, aliens are extraterrestrials, the strangest or more remote. That which is most remote is the closest, because humans constitute themselves from the outside: another who acknowledges us, another determines our usages and customs, and we exist as a result of others. Our existence is therefore artificial, even though we occupy biological bodies.”

On the other hand, perhaps the good doctor is projecting himself — basing his assessment on his own prejudices and there is some unnecessary profiling going on here.  Goatherd Jaime Cruz, among others, has seen the unknown “monster” several times in the southwestern section of Monclova, where ten goats have been mysteriously killed over the last six months.  Cruz and others who have seen the monster don’t believe the creature is an alien, but a indigenous Mexican  monster… .