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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I’ve had similar results in my younger years making friends with some of Holder’s people.
They were good people until you had three or more with you, then it was them against you and they would take you for all they could. Funny thing is that they would always act like it was nothing when they came around you a day or so later. Like it was expected that you think nothing of being treated like crap.
That’s why I’ve developed an attitude that I would rather not have them as friends in my older years. Not worth the risk.
Good points, but a relative of mine who employees Kalifornians told me, even with all you stated, the Mexicans are still harder working then the average young Kalifornian native.
I had a friend whose parents retired to Guadalajara. A friend of theirs hired a lawyer to make sure all the paperwork was done correctly to buy a very nice hacienda. After a couple of years a judge who had been bribed by some shyster lawyer who found an “irregularity” and seized the hacienda. The retired Yanquis were SOL. The consulate could do nothing to help them. All that said, I liked Guadalajara. It’s a real old Wild West cowboy town. After the kidnapping/torture/murder of “Kiki” Camarena, a DEA agent assigned to the consulate while out on morning jogs, I maintained heightened situational awareness.
We used to have to pay bribes to Mexican officials in order to bring food to starving and hungry kids in the orphanages. And if one of the kids got sick and had to be taken to a hospital across the border there were more bribes involved.
I am a contractor and know the cliche, but people forget that they have to go through a lot of illegals to find a good worker, and they forget that they are comparing an adult fugitive, a peasant from a backwards culture who is willing to do unpleasant repetitive, boring work for low pay, than a young American who is on a different path in life and has long term goals and is just looking for some temporary money.
If I were building a nation or a business empire, I would still prefer to choose my pilgrims from the average California natives, than from the illegal laborers.
As someone who has seen it, I really regret how Mexicans destroyed workmanship, standards, and quality in the trades and construction industry.
It is a real education to cut into and have to remove and see in detail and layers, the quality and enduring construction and remodeling work done 50 and 60 years ago, and compare it with the unskilled handyman/laborer level stuff we see from the last 20 and 30 years, America is becoming a grubby, poorly built and poorly maintained nation.
Visit Mexico and look around, construction, yards, landscaping, walls, everything looks like it does in Mexico because they don’t know how to do anything well, and they have never cared to learn, or to do it if you tried to show them how.
Some nation’s populations are known for quality and craftsmanship, attention to detail, and pride in workmanship, Mexico has never been one of those.
“I have known a couple of people who decided to move the Mexico only to find out, too late, that they had no rights at all. One pair of brothers who built a beautiful home near a sea port where they loved to fish had it all just taken from them.”
Sounds like the Ensenada incident from 10-15 years ago. I am not an apologist for what happened but every resident of the beach area was told before they bought/leased land on the bay of the Mexico Supreme court case pending. There was 14 years of litigation and over 60 lawsuits filed before the MSC ruled for the original land owners.
Sad. RIP.
The Federales will keep everything. Most of the cars they drive are stolen.
Fuentes, for example, is credited with popularizing a well-known Mexican definition of suicide: A Gringo crossing the Rio Grande, headed south.
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Which is why the NAFTA trucking agreements that allow mexicans to drive in the US and Americans to drive in Mexico are so bogus
And a field for horses.........Where does a 38 year old drifter get that kind of money and what were his plans in Mexico to finance his future?
Call me crazy but I'm thinking the local drugs lords just wacked a gringo competitor.....
The Federales will keep everything. Most of the cars they drive are stolen.
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Like the crime interdiction cars driven by the state police and feds here in the states?
***had it all just taken from them. ***
I remember this happening forty years ago. Americans built a home in Mexico, the government confiscated it. When they went back to claim their furniture and movable goods, they were told by the Police....”You have nothing here that belongs to you.”
I read that to mean that, before moving to Mexico he had a business in Phoenix refurbishing homes and renting them out. He hired Mexican illegals to do the work, and that's how he got to know their culture and language. When his hired hands were caught and deported, he became disillusioned with the USA and moved himself to Mexico, where reality struck him in the face... several times, it seems.
-PJ
I’ve seen some hard working Mexicans and some lazy ones....some lazy Russkies and some hard working ones....there’s lazy ones among all of us...
When he was in his 20's he became a citizen and bought a brand new red Pontiac Convertible to celebrate. He drove the car home to visit his Mexican family and show them what he had accomplished. The police arrested him and took his car. He left and never went back. He said his mother wrote him that the Mayor drove his car in the parade every year.
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