A poll published Friday in Excelsior newspaper found...
Who knew that algore started a newspaper down there?
Posted on 05/18/2006 12:35:37 AM PDT by one more state
Police enraged by the kidnapping of six officers club unarmed detainees. A bloody battle between steelworkers and police leaves two miners dead. Drug lords post the heads of decapitated police on a fence to show who's in charge.
Less than two months before Mexicans elect their next president, many fear the country is teetering on the edge of chaos a perception that could hurt the ruling National Action Party's chances of keeping the presidency and benefit Mexico's once-powerful Institutional Revolutionary Party, whose candidate has been trailing badly.
Some blame President Vicente Fox for a weak government. Others say rivals are instigating the violence to create that impression, hoping to hurt National Action candidate Felipe Calderon, who has a slight lead in recent polls.
A poll published Friday in Excelsior newspaper found 50 percent of respondents feared the government was on the brink of losing control. The polling company Parametria conducted face-to-face interviews at 1,000 homes across Mexico. The poll had a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
In April, suspected drug lords posted the heads of two police officers on a wall outside a government building where four drug traffickers died in a Jan. 27 shootout with officers in the Pacific resort of Acapulco.
A sign nearby read: "So that you learn to respect."
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You can see it everywhere, all the nations of the Earth in chaos and confusion, waiting for the "manifestation of the Sons of God".
quite a loaded statement. how many "sons" are there?
So that we "will learn to respect"?
Tell me why our border with Mexico should remain open.
The most powerful opposing party to Scumbago Fox consists mostly of communist. Mexico would turn as red as hot sauce if they were to make gains in any election. This is one of the reasons that the administration is so keen to keep scumbago in power.
Better to let them fall, IMHO. It's not like it'd be much different between our nations, we'd still be hosting most of their poor.
So we can have something to look forward to!
The only viable long-term solution is to invoke Manifest Destiny and annex Mexico.
I have never thought of Mexico as anything but a Third World country at best. I have traveled extensivelky down there BUT not to the tourist destinations.
While the people are wonderful and the culture charming, the infrastructure is awful. I have yet to go to a bathroom in a small or medium town that is acceptable. I have seen some bathrooms that defy description ... or at least in a public forum.
Just today I was arranging some of the large copper pieces I bought in Santa Clara del Cobre. I remember the colorful homes, the bromeliads dripping from the trees, the brass band that played in the zocolo on battered and dentedd old trumpets and tubas ... the men all wearing rags.
And the young men, all dirty, in better rags working in the copper shops using foot powered wheels to fashion the copper.
Mexico is arcane, beautiful but the people are suffering because the government is horribly broken.
Works for me. We should have done that 100 years ago...or more. So what's the name of that Doctrine again that prevents us from doing that? Monroe? It was a nice idea at the time.
It's all about absurdity.
Works for me. We should have done that 100 years ago...or more. So what's the name of that Doctrine again that prevents us from doing that? Monroe? It was a nice idea at the time.
Yeah boy! That's just what we need. 100,000,000 more uneducated DemocRat voters.
And by the way, the Monroe Doctrine says nothing about U.S/Mexican relations. It prohibits European countries from meddling in the affairs of the Western hemisphere.
Why should the national action party keep the reigns of pwer?
What the hell have they done while in power. Have they even tried to stop the corruption?
Have they made efforts to produce jobs for the wetbacks?
"Their people come up here to work and enough money trickles down there to prevent total anarchy and rule by drug lords."
30-40% of the following country's GDP is based on transfers from "immigrants" to the US:
Mexico
Honduras
Guatemala
El Salvador
Panama
Columbia.
I'm missing a few to be sure.
Who knew that algore started a newspaper down there?
Easy. Because there are some crimes that Americans simply will not commit.....
Gee, they've just noticed that Mexico is in chaos? I'd say they've been that way since the Aztecs made slaves of the other Indian tribes before Cortez hit the beach in 1520.
Who sez you gotta let them in as states? Could just declare Mexico a US protectorate with no US voting/citizenship rights, and we civilize the place at gunpoint.
Unless one is blind, it must be obvious that Mexico has failed as a country.
About remittances. In general, when you feed poor people, the only thing you get is more poor people. The average remittance is about $1,000/yr, so you would not really expect that to buy much more than some tamales and beans. It may just create what is known as the phenomenon of rising expectations which can be very explosive in Latin America. People get the idea that their lives could be better without any real understanding of what it would take to make it so.
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