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To: ClearCase_guy
The fact that Latino Culture month excludes discussion of the European who introduced Western Civilization to the stone age people living in the New World does not surprise me -- though it does sadden me.

In the 1920's, a nativist version of socialism grew up in Peru. Tactical as ever, the Communists had pitched Peruvian Indian students, who then built a political party called APRA (its Spanish acronym). Expelled by the caudillo Leguia, the Apristas settled in Mexico City, where they found a civil reception from the Mexican Red intellectuals clustered around Frida Kahlo and her sometimes-husband, Diego Rivera.

The intercourse between the Apristas and Communists in Mexico City injected a dose of "brown Kluxerism" into the Mexican intelligentsia that has persisted to this day and has borne fruit in the reconquista policies of the PRI toward the U.S. Their revanchism and irridentism have been noticeable in the ravings of various brown-racist Stateside groups like La Raza Unida, MALDEF, and NALEO, which now aims at becoming a swing (controlling) political bloc in the U.S. and parlaying that position into a new political hegemony of U.S. politics and, there are occasionally murmurings, of a revival of Santannism, viz., the policies and anti-Anglo hard-line attitudes (were Goliad and the Alamo hard-line enough?) of General Presidente Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.

13 posted on 10/13/2009 9:16:24 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus

Good info! Thanks!


17 posted on 10/13/2009 9:20:33 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: lentulusgracchus
there are occasionally murmurings, of a revival of Santannism, viz., the policies and anti-Anglo hard-line attitudes (were Goliad and the Alamo hard-line enough?) of General Presidente Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.

To be fair, Mexican textbooks are rather harsh on Santa Anna for his vainglorious attempts at empire and his loss of 1/3 of Mexican territory to the Americans. The only Mexican leader more reviled by Mexican academics (to say nothing of anyone in Mexico who pays attention to their history) is Victoriano Huerta.

APRA in Peru was largely comprised of lower middle class mestizos who felt disenfranchised by the white elite, with its support later spreading to Indians (who were/are notoriously fickle in their politics) in the countryside later.

18 posted on 10/13/2009 9:23:18 AM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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