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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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To: Clemenza
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 operative word here being, "loss". I don't recall ever hearing about raillery directed against Santa Anna for his denunciation of the Constitution of 1824 and his suppression of the Constitutionalists in e.g. Morelos and Coahuila.

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.

The criollos disenfranchised everyone else, as had the peninsulares before them. But nativism was always a political force in Peru, going back to Tupac Amaru'.

Even now, the social pecking order throughout Spanish-speaking America holds Indians at the bottom of the totem pole, this despite the arrival of mestizo revolutions like Mexico's PRI. Someone commented that the PRI has become more and more creole as the mestizo leadership has married into the old creole power elite. One would be hard put to see the old, brown PRI leadership in recent presidents since Miguel de la Madrid in the 1980's.

Still, the PRI is a reservoir of anti-American, anti-Anglo sentiment, and this anti-Americanism informs some of their most basic social and foreign policies toward El Norte.

NALEO and similar NGO's are a middle-future threat to the unity and integrity of the United States; longer-term, I think they're a threat to let the Chinese into the country in numbers, after which we are really in trouble.

The endgame of such a scenario would be a U.N.-supervised breakup of the United States (no doubt articulating Wilsonian aspirations of all the white-haters, just for amusement value) attended by uncontrolled mass immigration of hostile, alien populations bent on the violent extirpation of the old American population.

20 posted on 10/13/2009 10:29:14 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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