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Communist Mexico?
www.inatoday.com ^ | March 2006

Posted on 04/10/2006 6:53:11 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

Nearly 15 years after the collapse of the USSR, America could encounter what would have been unthinkable during the Cold War - a hostile, communist nation on our southern border. If the plans of the Marxist president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, are successful, America's neighbor to the south will become a virtual enemy camp.

For the past five years, Chavez has sent money and agents to Mexico to finance and infiltrate local political groups on the left, according to a Mexican news daily The goal is ideological -- pro-Chavez operatives want to dominate the increasingly powerful left wing in Mexico.

The Chavez strategy is in a critical phase. The Mexican presidential election is scheduled for July 2, 2006, and the favored candidate to win is Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a leftist who is currently leading his closest opponent, Felipe Calderon, by over ten percentage points.

Obrador claims not to have any affiliations beyond Mexico's historical political traditions, but his supporters include militant socialists who openly support the communist rebels in Colombia, a conflict which has taken tens of thousands of lives. Many others have developed a loyalty to Chavez and his particular brand of Marxism.

Chavez has borrowed from Lenin, Mao, and Fidel Castro of Cuba, among others, to develop "bolivarian" socialism, what is termed "21st century socialism," which, so far, looks very similar to other Marxist schemes. The term "bolivarian" comes from the name of the great South American liberator, Simon Bolivar, who defeated Spanish colonial forces in the early 19th century.

Should Obrador win, as many expect, a large number of his supporters will be communist militants willing to use force to bring leftist policies into reality.

To ensure that Mexico's version of "bolivarian socialism" has the ability to assert its will effectively, Chavez has already supplied "logistics" and "military training" to leftist rebel groups, according to the report.

In Venezuela, "bolivarian" supporters have been able to threaten and intimidate opponents by using weapons and strong-arm tactics. Mexico may be headed for a similar fate.

The prospect of a communist Mexico is only the latest blow to the U.S. in Latin America, once America's "backyard." The pro-terror Islamic Republic of Iran is a close ally of Venezuela, and may seek to share nuclear secrets with its Marxist ally. There are also reports that Venezuela may seek rocket technology from the Stalinist gulag of North Korea.

Venezuela's Marxist partner in the Caribbean, Castro's Cuba, recently played host to a top-level military delegation from China, led by General Peng Xiaofeng, who was the chief political officer of the PLA's nuclear forces.

Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Bolivia all have leftist governments with varying degrees of hostility to the U.S.

The media is ignoring the red tide sweeping across Latin America, and the federal government seems unwilling to respond. The situation becomes even more alarming in view of our inept policies concerning the control of our borders.

Let your representatives know what you think about these issues, which the established media fails to cover.


TOPICS: Extended News; Mexico; US: Arizona; US: California; US: New Mexico; US: Texas
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To: stopem
Mexico already tried communism back in their 1917 revolution, and it failed so miserably that the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) ultimately regressed to the traditional-style corrupt feudalism prevalent throughout the Latin-American world. The concept of economic and political freedom through the inalienable rights with which our Creator endowed each individual remains confined almost exclusively to the Anglosphere--Britain, America, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and various other countries that have received extensive guidance from the foregoing (such as Japan and Germany).

But the Mexicans are fleeing a relatively successful country in the scheme of world affairs largely because it has (at least in the northern states) abandoned many communistic vestiges and begun to adopt capitalism and prosper. Its citizens flee northward because Mexico remains deeply corrupt and riddled by criminal gangs including narcoterrorists. But many Mexicans, especially in the southern states, remain enslaved to unflinching communistic economic policies. In a few southern states, even persecution of Christians occasionally flares. (Mexico persecuted Catholics extensively in the decades following the Communist revolution but scaled back the assault on the Church to quell the popular Christero rebellion.) The Mexican government nevertheless still exercises communistic control over large sectors of the economy, greatly hindering the prosperity of the Mexican people.

Communism will not cure Mexican ills; it only exacerbates the problems and returns the country to its worst years of discontentment and rebellion.
21 posted on 04/10/2006 7:35:32 PM PDT by dufekin (US Senate: the only place where the majority [44 D] comprises fewer than the minority [55 R])
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To: 68 grunt
What you type could be correct, but I believe in the spirit of America, and I believe in the spirit of Americans. When the going becomes tough enough, and we as a nation may be headed there, I am an optimist and still believe this nation's people will refuse to disarm. If this nation does disarm, then all bets are off, and I shall have no choice but to say to you, "68 grunt you are / were completely correct."
22 posted on 04/10/2006 7:36:43 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (means politicians give taxpayer $$$ and amnesty? We Won?)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
How does one foment a revolution in Mexico along the lines of the American revolution against the British Crown?

How do Mexicans become property owners without getting their hands dipped in the blood of their Patrones?

23 posted on 04/10/2006 7:39:06 PM PDT by stboz
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Spanish language TV and radio stations are using our airwaves to incite an overthrow of the U.S.and I think it is part and parcel of a Communist Rev. part II in Mexico.!
24 posted on 04/10/2006 7:39:18 PM PDT by BellStar (Spanish language TV and radio stations are using our airwaves to incite the overthrow of our U.S.)
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To: no-to-illegals

I hope like heck the optimist is right and I'm wronger than wrong has ever been. Thanks.


25 posted on 04/10/2006 7:39:23 PM PDT by 68 grunt (3/1 India, 3rd, 68-69, 0311)
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To: proud_yank

PING


26 posted on 04/10/2006 7:45:17 PM PDT by Thunder90
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To: lizol; Lukasz; strategofr; GSlob; spanalot; Thunder90; Tailgunner Joe; propertius; REactor; ...

This may not have anything to do with Russia directly, but the post here is important to national security and Mexico represents a large market for Russian weaponry.


27 posted on 04/10/2006 7:46:07 PM PDT by Thunder90
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I've been thinking for a little while that Venezuela is in cahoots with Mexico in trying to destabilize our economy, our sovereignty, and our unity as an American people, modeling on the Zimmerman Telegram of 1917.


28 posted on 04/10/2006 7:47:27 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana (Hey, Washington, which laws do I get to break?)
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To: stopem

"Chavez is probably absolutely delighted he has all these illegals who are faithful to mexico living in this country are even demonstrating against us. They have taken over our streets again and again and again!

Chavez has a ready made army located right here with more flooding in like a cat5 every day and he doesn't have to do to much to get the socialists here and demonstrating to fight us for total control."


And the Russians have plenty of weapons to arm them with.



29 posted on 04/10/2006 7:48:26 PM PDT by Thunder90
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To: Thunder90

I also forgot to say that it represents a place for Russia to base IRBM's and for importing suitcase nukes and Spetsnaz into our country. Same for the Chinese.


30 posted on 04/10/2006 7:49:38 PM PDT by Thunder90
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To: Tailgunner Joe

This doesn't sound all that bad to me. We'd finally get an oportunity to close the damn border and if the Mexican economy can't be productive with a "capitalist" economy it doesn't have a prayer with the commies in charge.


31 posted on 04/10/2006 7:51:47 PM PDT by elmer fudd
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To: BellStar

The communist movement in venezuela has two sources, and thus the Mexican one has them as well. The sources are the obvious one... China, and the not so known but still threatening one...Russia.


32 posted on 04/10/2006 7:52:12 PM PDT by Thunder90
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To: Thunder90
The communist movement in venezuela has two sources, and thus the Mexican one has them as well. The sources are the obvious one... China, and the not so known but still threatening one...Russia.

You are spot-on, and it bears repeating. Como se dice' "Zimmerman Telegram"?

33 posted on 04/10/2006 7:53:27 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana (Hey, Washington, which laws do I get to break?)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
a hostile, communist nation on our southern border.

At least the border would finally be closed (Communists do that you know).

34 posted on 04/10/2006 7:59:30 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Proud soldier in the American Army of Occupation..)
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To: Mike Darancette

If it happens the border will probly be the Mississippi River.


35 posted on 04/10/2006 8:02:02 PM PDT by 76834 (There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

If Mexico goes down the Venezuela route America is going to have to intervene militarily. A lot of nations are questioning America's will, and testing us. Especially with the democrats being solidly pro-Chavez, pro-Castro, and pro-Islam.

Its better to deal with these marxists early on, before they get entrenched in power.


36 posted on 04/10/2006 8:10:17 PM PDT by ran15
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To: hispanarepublicana

I like that one!!! it BEAR's repeating.

(The Grizzly Bear is a symbol of Russia, and the Panda is one of the symbols for China)


37 posted on 04/10/2006 8:10:57 PM PDT by Thunder90
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To: 76834

The Russians will then want Alaska back, and the Midwest for that matter. The Chinese would want the west coast, and the Cubans and Venezuelans would want the Southeast


38 posted on 04/10/2006 8:11:54 PM PDT by Thunder90
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To: Thunder90

Doh! Please please please don't tell my FReePUNster buddies that I punned without even knowing it! I'll be shamed off the FReePUN ping list!


39 posted on 04/10/2006 8:12:51 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana (Hey, Washington, which laws do I get to break?)
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To: Thunder90

We think similiar.

The USA border would be pushed back to the Mississippi, maybe the Ohio river.



40 posted on 04/10/2006 8:13:51 PM PDT by 76834 (There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.)
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