This scumbag needs to be hauled off to jail for disturbing the peace. Enough is enough.
A guy at Auto Zone today told my husband and I that if Mexico plummets into Civil War (yeah, not IRAQ, but MEXICO) then the great wall of China won't keep the surge of illegals out. Then he said this "they need to build a 30 feet deep by 50 foot wide canal all along the US-Mexico border and fill it with Alligators, Parana, etc! I couldn't believe someone else had thought like it did!
Well, a Mexican civil war might give us an excuse to conqueror the place, thereby removing the problem with illegal immigration across the southern border: the southern border of Mexico is very short.
If all hell breaks loose, could make having lots of nice new walls up a number 1 concern.
Let's see how Vincente takes care of communist enemies.
If he had the cojones, all the communist would have been arrested and the leaders stood up against the wall - after the same fair & impartial trial communists would afford him.
If Obrador's con doesn't work, he's toast, and will remain so unless the ruling party fouls up.
The good professor - the "Mexico expert" - is sadly wrong. Even a package of bribes in the form of welfare programs won't help; Mexico already has welfare programs up one side and down the other, along with the high taxes that go with a dysfunctional semi-socialist economy that relies upon government redistribution of the available portions left of its otherwise squandered or stolen income. Fox was trying to change this, and many Mexicans seemed to appreciate the effort.
This whole thing is about the attempt of the radical left to seize power. It wouldn't matter what "social programs" were in place. They did it in Bolivia regardless of the social programs, and in fact paved the way for their coup by assassinating community leaders and people who worked in these social programs. And then they attacked the presidency, stirring up their following of ignorant natives, people in the coca trade, and unionists by boldly and calmly attacking the rule of law and its symbols, particularly the presidency. The president ended up having to crawl around in the presidential residence because of the gunfire coming through the windows and was finally taken to the airport hidden in the back of a car. Now that, to the left, was a really satisfying result.
People say that the situations of Mexico and Bolivia are different, and that is true in the sense that Mexico appears to be much more established and have a smaller proportion of the easily manipulated indigenous population. But to me the most similar thing is the boldness of the left in simply declaring that they don't plan to play by the rules - and the powerlessness, so far, of a state based on the rule of law to stop them.
Vincente Fox had a major chance to institute his promised economic and social reforms to reduce the power of the oligarchy down there and give the campesinios a better opportunity in life and he punted.
Obrador is no Pancho Villa or Emiliano Zapata, but he is going to push the whole thing over into a full drop revolution.