Posted on 03/28/2013 11:44:15 AM PDT by moonshinner_09
Kyle Kester loved the local people and the rugged landscape north of Guadalajara, where he had built a sprawling stucco home.Kyle Kester’s parents admit they weren’t thrilled when he built his dream home tucked in a rocky, secluded valley 18 miles north of Guadalajara.
They worried for his safety in the isolated Mexican countryside where the nearest neighbor was a half-hour ride down a rutted dirt road, passable at times only by motorcycle, or whether the state-of-the-art 6,000-square-foot stucco house in a poverty-stricken land could make him a target for thieves, or worse.
The 38-year-old Apple Valley native reassured his parents that he was safe among the locals he befriended and employed to help him build the house by hand in a land where good-paying jobs were scarce. They were like family, he said, and he trusted them.
“He loved the people,” his father, Harley Kester said. “He would still love them. I’m sure he would.”
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E’ff this corrupt world—build the dream house in heaven in total peace, safety and eternal joy minus all criminals.
I don't understand people still thinking about moving there.
“When you’re lost in the rain in Juarez and it’s Easter time too.” Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues - Bob Dylan
Sad that these wishful thinkers didn’t know what little Texans learn in grade school: Never trust a Mexican. He’s your friend until he and his cousins beat you to a pulp. If you have two of anything, he’ll steal one because you shouldn’t have two of anything.
Sign of the times.
The article mentions that Kyke loved Mexicans for their ethic of hard work, honesty and loyalty. Without a shred of irony, apparently.
Mexico is now and has always been nothing more than a shithole. I have found a few honest Mexicans, but as a rule I do not trust them.
I’m a bigot you say, after they steal from you, you tell me how it feels...
Someone told me once that if you want the cops to do anything you have to bribe them, pay them off, even for murder which is why every sicko on the planet who gets off on torture and killing goes down there because they know they’ll get away with it. Like you said, never in a million years would I go there.
However, his death raises some questions: Did he have any college experience? If he had college experience did he take courses in ethnic studies, Sociology? Was he a frequent contributor to La Raza, Mecha or like organizations?
Their local constables are corrupt; their national police are corrupt; their politicians are mostly corrupt, and those who aren't are spineless. What a waste of natural resources just below our borders. Reminds me of Cuba and how they could flourish if given the opportunity.
We've done Cabo, but will never go again. I also won't allow my wife to go to Cancun again with her daughter. We both have a veto that we rarely use, but I WILL veto that. Mexico is off limits!
He hired Mexican immigrants? Did they just return from the U.S. to Mexico?
Why did he not just build a nice house in Chicago?
Or Baltimore, Detroit, Newark, Camden, Atlanta, East St. Louis, etc., etc.
Why did he not just build a nice house in Chicago?
Napoleonic Law down there. Guilty til proven innocent. Corruption rules.
family values don’t end at the Rio Grande...
That is a false image of illegals, and Mexico.
Mexico has always correctly been known as a culture of laziness, of the "Manana mentality", it is why it is such a grubby, dirty nation of poorly built and maintained structures and villages.
Mexico has always correctly been known as a culture of corruption and dishonesty, and of evasive deceit and selfishness, greed and violence.
Mexicans are loyal to who, to what, what is the centuries old image of Mexicans and their loyalties?
Americans have always known and spoke openly about Mexico until recently, suddenly in recent decades, we are are morphing them into some industrious, clean, hard working honest people like the people who created America centuries ago.
Doesn't anyone go to Mexico anymore and look at their homeland and culture, and society and see what they built... or didn't?
Doesn't anyone ponder what kind of people can so casually sneak into another country and comfortably live in a crime culture of forged government papers, lies, deceit, even crimes of stealing benefits and evading taxes?
Good stock can't do that, only weak, lazy, corrupt people can pursue that lifestyle.
You know Mexico, look at post 17.
Why did he not just build a nice house in Chicago?
Or Baltimore, Detroit, Newark, Camden, Atlanta, East St. Louis, etc., etc.
The same thing could have happened to him
in parts of Chicago, or Baltimore, Detroit, Newark, Camden, Atlanta, East St. Louis, etc., etc.
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Those of us who have studied the Rio Grande know why it is called the great river. The cultural division between Mexico and the U.S. is wider than the divide between China and the U.S.
This is acknowledged wide and far, T.R. Fehrenbach for example.
The noted late Mexican author Carlos Fuentes is essential reading also, particularly "The Old Gringo." Too many fail to gather the deep fatalism (Aztec - not German) of the place.
Fuentes, for example, is credited with popularizing a well-known Mexican definition of suicide: A Gringo crossing the Rio Grande, headed south.
A present day variation on that theme would be an American political party's definition of suicide.
That would be Republicans making deals with Democrats to grant dilute American citizenship with their pathway to amnesty.
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