Posted on 04/11/2006 4:48:37 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
AMLO, as he is popularly known, is a left-wing neopopulist, and he leads in all the polls in his country despite his mediocre performance as governor of the Federal District. ...
So far, the Mexican media are full of accusations about Chávez's copious contributions to AMLO's political campaign, as if the Venezuelan's plans included bringing Mexico into his hallucinatory project for a Bolivarian revolution.
Common sense should tell any Mexican president that his most important priority is getting along well with the United States, its very powerful neighbor, principal trade partner and travel destination for tens of millions of Mexicans. But ideology usually is a bad counselor that distorts perceptions.
After all, Chávez should also be interested in maintaining good relations with the United States, the country that buys 80 percent of the oil Venezuela exports. Yet he engages systematically in trying to provoke a crisis between the two nations and does not hesitate to call President Bush ''murderer,'' ''coward,'' ''genocidal criminal'' and ``drunkard.''
What role does Mexico play in Chávez's fevered fantasies? Because he is a messianic person intent on reconstructing the Bolivarian history and geography of the 19th century, it is reasonable to predict that he dreams of regaining for Mexico the territories that country lost after the 1846-47 U.S.-Mexican War and that now constitute the southwestern United States.
Let us recall that in 1917 German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann offered Mexican President Venustiano Carranza the return of those territories if Mexico attacked the United States from the south and entered World War I on the German side. Discovery of this secret offer prompted President Woodrow Wilson to ask Congress for a formal declaration of war against Berlin.
Will Mexico let itself be drawn in the direction plotted by Chávez?
(Excerpt) Read more at miami.com ...
This presupposes that Mexico has actually been our friend.
They already have, IMHO.
Mexico has been our enemy for the last 30 years by dumping it's poor and uneducated at our doorstep for us to take care of.
They already did that, just Bush and Fox are chummy.
--Will Mexico let itself be drawn in the direction plotted by Chávez?
Might be an improvement.
How will we know the difference?
They already have, IMHO.
Beat me to it! I second that emotion!
Is there a date on the question?
And that would seem to be an inaccurate presupposition. Not on your part but the author's
Silly question. Mexico...words fail.
Because they are willing to bankrupt this country by pushing their welfare and healthcare burdens on us. I think it's about time we send Mexico all the ER bills from our hosptials for treating the illegal aliens they encourage to smuggle themselves over OUR border.
If the Commie gets elected Pres, they will go from being smiling backstabbers to outright enemies.
Actually the US is more to blame than Mexico for that. Why? Well, it is our responsibility to ensure that the 'poor and uneducated' from other nations do not end up here. We have failed in doing that. It is also our responsibility to ensure that if they get here that there are measures in place to ascertain that illegals are taken out. We have also failed in that, and not just that but we have actually made it easier for them to stay here (check out what ITINs are ...inidividual taxpayer identification numbers). Not only have we failed, but we actually make it easier for them over here.
The US is more to blame for this than Mexico, in the same way you are more to blame for theft than the thief if you know that your home is in a dangerous area, and yet you leave your door open, advertize what valuables you have inside the home, and even leave moleskin slippers at the doorstep so that the thief doesn't make much noise creeping around the house. True, the thief is the criminal, but the owner of such a house facilitated the theft. When it comes to illegal immigration there is not much impetus to stop it. Mexico may be dumping, but we seem to have been very happily receiving all of them, and either looking the other way or actually helping them out. Government organizations like ICE (and its predecessor ,the INS) are great for catching educated people from (say) Britain who have overstayed visas, but several million illegal immigrants from Mexico could step-march past their offices with total impunity.
To anyone paying attention, they already have.
Build a wall and this question will be answered very fast.
Sure as hell hope so. s/
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