Posted on 06/29/2018 6:17:31 AM PDT by artichokegrower
– Until recently, Edgar Barrera enjoyed a life many Mexicans could only hope for.
In a few short years, the 36-year-old bookkeeper rose from handyman to white-collar worker at what seemed to be one of the most stable companies in Latin America: state-owned oil firm Pemex.
Thanks to Pemex, Barrera met his wife, vacationed on the Mayan Riviera and envisaged a rewarding career without leaving his hometown in Tabasco, a rural state at the southern hook of the Gulf of Mexico where more than half the population lives on less than roughly $92 a month.
Yeah let's disband ICE with all of this going on south of our border.
Mexico’s oil is crap. Now that we have plenty of sweet oil, we don’t need it. Bye, Bye slush fund.
Like “Escape From New York.”
Build the wall and let them kill themselves on the other side.
Its not the oil sputtering, its the completely corrupt and inept, Socialistic, crony-Capitalist government that set the conditions to cause rioting. If we think we have a border problem now, wait until Mexico’s government collapses. I used to think it would never happen. Now I’m not so sure.
BOYCOTT Mexico and Canadian. Buy American. Travel our beautiful Red States
And Mexico is exporting it here.
Mexican culture sucks...
“wait until Mexico’s government collapses. I used to think it would never happen. Now I’m not so sure.”
Conventional wisdom was that Pena Nieto was a new reformed sort of PRI candidate - a modern technocrat, who would emphasize cracking down on gangs and corruption. But he presided over this slide into corruption and lawlessness.
On Sunday, Mexico seems likely to elect a new President (AMLO) who is an unrepentant socialist, and who proposes amnesty for all the drug cartels. It looks like it is headed for a serious downward spiral, worse than what the last few years have seen.
The government in Mexico is not in control, the cartels are. Government in Mexico are just figure heads at this point. The best way to explain what is going on in Mexico is Plata O Plomo.
The problem is PEMEX, Mexico’s national oil company. They should have completely privatized it or split it up for privatization many years ago.
The other problem with PEMEX is the inability to handle the cyclic nature of oil prices. Easy to hire, pay well, provide benefits when oil prices rise, but when the price drops the the stated owned enterprise collapses under its own weight of debt.
They murder politicians at a very high rate.
Señor AMLO has already said the new energy reform contracts need to be ‘reviewed’.
Invest in Mexico.
Such a deal!
Many years back my brother spent a year in school outside Mexico City. He always maintained that Mexico had arable land, vast resources, minerals, oil...etc....being that it could be an economic success.
The problem (so he states) was Mexico is filled with Mexicans. 10% of the population carried the other 90%.
Versus about 30% carrying 70% here. The US can still borrow all the money it needs to fund the socialists and progs.
My Mexican boss said that it is not a rich country because everybody is on the take. Just look at the Mexico City earthquake 30 years ago. Building that came down had no REBAR! Government ‘inspectors’ were paid off.
Mexico is very rich in natural resources and should be a successful country. No doubt about that.
The problem is not the Mexican people in general; there is a strong caste system that was officially done away with but in reality still exists and controls everything. The people at the top get richer, the people at the bottom get poorer and there is no real middle class. People at the top do not want people below them to succeed in any way and will not do anything that might help them succeed.
The only issue with the Mexican people is they have been programmed in that system- to them that is how it is and most don’t realize how that hampers the country and their lives. You would think they would want to rebel against that, but for the most part they just seem to accept it.
The poor that have any ambition come here because they know if they work hard they can vastly improve their lives. Most have decent jobs in Mexico but know there is no way to move up, no way to really succeed in Mexico. Of course we get serious criminals and deadbeats here too along with the ambitious workers because it is much better for them here too. Being a criminal in Mexico is seen as one of the few ways to get ahead, it is so hard to legitimately do so.
Fixing Mexico or even improving it would require taking it over and rebuilding the government from the bottom up. If we are not prepared to do that anything else is futile. NAFTA made the rich richer and the poor stayed poor. At one point Oil companies tried to go in and develop oil fields- equipment and material was being stolen as soon as it got on site.
The way Mexico is operated the elites at the top of the system and the cartels that control crime that pays are in charge. The government we see only does what they are told to do, the people have zero say so actually.
Mexico is turning into a shitthole country.
Latin cultures put up with corruption, due to the tribal mentality. It is pervasive, and endemic. The Norm. See: Dade County, or Puerto Rico for examples in the US.
The Mexican government has not figured out out to organize and enforce a regulatory state apparatus that captures the take. I do not see a big difference between paying a lawyer $10,000 to help get an environmental permit to drain a ditch or going under the table with an inspector for $500. One way is submitting to tyranny and the other encourages organized crime...oh wait they are mostly the same thing one is just cheaper and quicker. But of course going the $500 route makes you a criminal and keeps you from ever holding elected office unless your are a Dem.
We are no too far away from our own descent into the prog abyss.
We’re going to have to eventually occupy Mexico.
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