Specific catastrophes in recent years, like the terrible earthquake in Haiti or the severe flooding in Venezuela and Brazil have had the powerful media outlets attempting to make money out of the end of the world situation.

Despite efforts by many governments, institutions and respectful people, little has been done or said on the globalization of the industries and the dangerous gases they generate or the promotions of wars and conflicts from those that bet on the destruction of the planet.

Anyhow, last January 3rd, in the Mayan Research Center from the Philological Research Institute of the Autonomous University of Mexico published on their web site that “on December 22nd, 2012 the world would not end or will there be a catastrophe; there is no Mayan prophecy as promoted by the media without scientific affirmation”.

“In its calendar, the Mayan people did not write a prophecy, but the end of the 13 bactunes cycle, equivalent to 5 125 years and the beginning of the other phase”, said Carmen Valverde Valdes, Coordinator of the Center.

The bactun, said Tomas Perez, another researcher of the center is the time unit of this culture equivalent to 144 000 days in western calendar.

Specialists have assured that this culture has a circular notion of time, that is to say, that whatever occurred at one moment in time will repeat itself.

According to the criteria of the Mayan Center’s coordinator, when the history is written, a prophecy is done, because due to its cycle conception of the events and its repetition, if one talks about their predictions “in realty its what has been registered in their own history in writing which is always cryptic and with symbols”.

The famous date of December 2012 is the beginning of a new cycle of life according to Mayan calendar, a culture which assures never had talked about Apocalypses. “The ceremony of 2010 is marketing”, said Carmen Valverde.

The truth is that according to the alleged apocalyptic, certain stories have been made up, but the truth is nothing is being done or very little to change the true damages in which the hands of humanity are capable of in eliminating their own existence.

The Haitian people do have a tragedy at hand, first hit by a devastating earthquake and later by the cholera epidemic. Except for Cuban cooperation, and some few NGO institutions in the health sector, the famous aid which have been promised is still up in the air.

There, I believe, lies the prophecy. Save and save ourselves, although the powerful are holding on to their space vessels to travel to “the other world”.

Poor extra terrestrial life if humans reach their destinations. We would have to wait for the creation of another new universe.