Posted on 07/06/2006 12:32:39 PM PDT by StJacques
My bride and I arrived in Mexico City on Tuesday after the Bay of Pigs calamity. There was a lot of yelling in the streets and a few cars being torched. Americanos were cowering in the hotel lobbies for the most part, but I told my wife not to worry, that stuff went on all the time. Next morning we were in a small shop in a side street when a caravan of Army trucks pulled in and troops with hard hats and riot guns piled out. The shopkeeper pointed out that the U.S. embassy was across the street and perhaps there was some rumor that there might be trouble. But he said only about 2% of the 40,000 university students were actually Communists, but they could always raise a street crowd on almost any occasion.
I should think that they would vote PAN, being self-motivated and entrepreneurial, rather than exhibiting socialist traits of dependent status. But then I mostly know construction workers and vaqueros, not migrant farm workers.
Well, I was about to say that many of the Mexicans living here probably are former southern Mexican peasant-class whose votes would've gone for Obrador if they hadn't been exposed to the U.S. and our (not perfect but still the best in the world) system.
It was pretty clear to me that most of the people at the Cuautemoc Cardenas rally really did not care, did not know the songs, and were there for the free bus ride into town. They must have kept them at the rally with a raffle or something.
There are a lot of "Nationals" from Guanajuato in Texas, and by appearance, many from Zacatecas, but this is only my coincidental observation.
Yes; isn't it strange? When I was young, if you saw a very fair, light-haired, light-eyed Spanish-speaking man doing construction or farm work, you could almost guarantee he was born in Northern Mexico. Today's (mostly illegal) immigrant workers come from the South of Mexico and don't look like that.
Did he also say that up is down and sideways is straight ahead?
The colors are all backward. Shouldn't PRI be in blue and PAN in red?
Oops, not PRI. PRD. Communists. Whatever they call themselves.
Can I be added to your ping list? Thanks for the translation!
Yes, the colors do not translate. The PAN logo is blue, the PRD is yellow / orange and the PRI is green, white and red like the flag.
The left uses red and black, hence "reds".
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