Mexico has never been a friend of our United States.
Based on old pesos!
The looters of Mexico want to have the freedom to loot America.
After spending several years starting oil exploration crews for Pemex, I think I have The reason Mexico has become so bad.
I like the Mexican people in the fly over parts of Mexico. The mid level and workers of Pemex are good.
It is the government and the high up in Pemex that are the vultures and looters.
The peso was about 8 cents (12.5 to a dollar).
When Pemex found the sito grande, a very large oil pool that covers parts of the states of Chiapas and Tabasco also a long ways into the Gulf of Mexico.
Pemex borrowed billions to produce this great oil find.
The looters (government) stole most of the money and what they did buy was junk oil rigs and drill pipe, etc.
1,000 pesos which was worth about $80 now will not buy a coke (old pesos).
This was due to the looters stealing billions from the Mexican people.
Instead of overthrowing the looters the Mexican people had an out, they had no weapons and they could cross into America and have a much safer life.
This hurts both Mexico and America as Mexico lost some of it’s hardest workers.
The gangbangers and welfare frauds also came over from Mexico as they could rape and pillage at will.
The government of Mexico is propped up by the billions sent back by the illegals and by our government having borders that are too open.
The only chance I see to help America and Mexico is to seal the border, deport the people who are not here legally.
We also need to arm the Mexican people so they can have a chance against the looters with their armies.
To understand the Mexican attitude to U.S. involvement in its oil and mining industry, you have to go farther back, back to the days of Diaz and his cientificos. Under Diaz, gringos and Europeans, and their commercial interests, were immune from Mexican courts unless Diaz said otherwise. Subsurface mineral rights were bargained away by the friends of Diaz for their own benefit without regard to who owned the land. If labor was needed, Diaz had a general round up peasants to work in the mines and oil fields, and chained them up at night. This came to a head in 1938 when U.S. oil companies refused to recognize the authority of the Mexican Supreme Court and the constitution of 1917. Cardenas nationalized the oil industry and threw out the foreigners, an act that many Mexicans regard the same way we do the Boston tea Party or the Emancipation Proclamation.