If the Mexicans electing a communist is what it takes to get us to seal our borders with Mexico tightly, then it can't be such a bad thing.
I have a feeling a lot of people will die in Mexico tomorrow.
He lost me on "Poncho" Villa.
"... Roberto Madrazo, has warned that "… They [Chavez and Obrador] have very similar attitudes. I see authoritarianism in them both." Madrazo further said that Obrador, like Chavez, does not respect the rule of law..."
Roberto Madrazo has gotten the point at much more fundamental level. It does not matter what kind of slogans, marxist or not, they mouth and the degree of red on the banner they wave. He got to the root.
About a week ago a talking head on TV announced that the US would have to fix Mexico's education system since so many of their citizens and (future US workers can neither read nor write. The US would have to fix it. Not Mexico. Nobody turned a hair at this announcement. They all acted as if this was perfectly logical. The US taxpayer would fund a revamp of Mexico's education system. No problemo.
Smoke came out of my ears for a week. No more was heard about the US fixing schools, etc.. And then! Just the other day another talking head/expert announced on TV that the US would have to fix Mexico's roads! And by extension, their trucks...since that superhighway through Kansas MUST go through. So this is the next pill the US taxpayer is to swallow. Fixing Mexico's infrastructure, soup to nuts, on our dime. Well, Mexico will tell us what to do, never fear.
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We let them sneak in, take the jobs we didn't want for low pay, take care of our kids, clean our homes, mow our lawns, ride their bicycles beside our cars, rent beds in overcrowded houses beside our McMansions, listen to our debates about their future, we have nothing to worry about, these people are grateful, they love us!!!!
And then they nationalize all of the factories that have moved down there as a result of NAFTA.
I am more afraid of the american socialist Republican party...
Send 'em home and SEAL THE BORDER!!!
I don't notice any large drops in the prices of Mexican silver mine stocks, like the ones that took place earlier in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Peru. It could be that the stockholders are asleep at the switch. Or it could be that they figure it's not time for the confiscation cycle to take place, since many mines were only recently sold back from Mexican to Canadian owners.
Mexico has always had a close working relationship with Castro, but that doesn't seem to have spread into the kind of problems witnessed earlier in Nicaragua.
I read that Obrador wants to stop the emigration because he sees it as humiliating that his country can't provide jobs and opportunities for its citizens.
It's scary how much Mexico's future effects America's two most important issues: Immigration and energy. Why, oh why, did the most retarded philosophies head towards Mexico?...Had Britain been their first, we'd probably see a better country out of Mexico.
With all the wisdom of hindsight, I've watched the crisis in Mexico blossom over the last 30 years-- yes,longer than that, but that's the limit of my personal observation.
How we could sit on our hands while this incredibly corrupt poverty-ridden wreck of a country needed a big push toward putting its own economy on the road to effective capitalism was a huge mystery to me. Clearly they were going to pour over our borders if their own country didn't provide them a means of support. But no, the wealthy autocrats in Mexico who run everything have kept their foot on the neck of the people without ceasing, turning them toward the USA, communism, anything that offers the PEOPLE some hope, no matter how misguided.
Mexico better get busy cleaning up its own carcass of a country and creating a middle class. And I'm afraid we're going to get stuck helping them one way or another.....a thousand ways would be more accurate.