From California to Mexico City
Posted on 01/11/2017 10:55:40 AM PST by Perseverando
Long-simmering social tensions in Mexico are threatening to boil over as failing neoliberal reforms to the country’s formerly nationalized gas sector are compounded by open corruption, stagnant standards of living, and rampant inflation.
The U.S. media has remained mostly mute on the situation in Mexico, even as the unfolding civil unrest has closed the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, California, several times in the past week. Ongoing “gasolinazo” protests in Mexico over a 20 percent rise is gas prices have led to over 400 arrests, 250 looted stores, and six deaths. Roads are being blockaded, borders closed, and government buildings are being sacked. Protests have remained relatively peaceful overall, except for several isolated violent acts, which activists have blamed on government infiltrators.
#VIDEO: Difunden momento exacto en que Policías Federales son arrollados por un vehículo en Rosarito, Baja California pic.twitter.com/r3SknjOQjJ
— Más Noticias Oaxaca (@Masnoticias0ax) January 7, 2017
The few mainstream news reports that have covered the situation blame rising gas prices but fail to examine several other factors that are pushing Mexico to the brink of revolution. ‘Narco-state’ corruption
The narco-state, or as Mexican activists say, “el narco-gobiero,” is a term used to describe the open corruption between the Mexican government and drug cartels. The narco-state has been in the headlines lately over the kidnapping and presumed murder of 43 Ayotzinapa students in Iguala, Guerrero, in 2014. This has been a source of continuous anti-government protests ever since.
Though the kidnappings remain officially unsolved, members of the Guerrero Unidos drug cartel have admitted to colluding with local police forces to silence the student activists. Twenty police officers have been arrested in association with the kidnapping. Former Iguala police chief Felipe Flores has been arrested and “accused of offenses including organized crime and
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If America chooses to dispense charity to a war torn neighbor, nothing stops us from establishing a SAFE ZONE on Mexican soil and aiding refugees there.
Agreed.
I’d say that $10k per capita is very misleading too. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are tens of millions living off a few thousand per year.
I may be off by a factor of whatever, but poverty is a problem down there.
Their cities are nothing like ours unless we’re talking about major ones. Even then...
That’s not to say they have to be, but what we see are the upscale areas. We don’t see the adobe buildings, some with no floors. We don’t see the cooking situation or the water situation.
How long ago was that?
You are absolutely correct. When Mexico revolts, the people will choose a version of Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez, and this is precisely what the US ruling establishment fears. We will have a communist Mexico on our border with revanchist designs on what we took from them in the Mexican War of 1846. They will have strong support from their people on our side of the border as well, and we will end up with a combination of insurgency and outright war with our new communist neighbor to the south.
Worst of all, most people on this planet are non-white, and the global community will side with Mexico just as it sides with the Palestinians today. It will become very messy.
That's why they've used our open border as a safety valve.
Mexico is awash in natural resources, and clearly has people who will work very hard.
The fact that they are not far wealthier than they are speaks to unbelievable levels of graft and corruption.
It needs to happen.
Why should a country of 135 million, with vastly more natural wealth than Canada have an average yearly earning of just under $10k per capita, while the average Canadian lives in utter squalor with earnings of $54k per year?
Further, why are Mexicans walking miles to obtain clean water to drink and cook with, while Canadians labor for the same by simply turning a handle on a faucet?
Mexico has a GDP of $1.1 Trillion , while Canada’s GDP is $1.7 Trillion. How and why does Canada have a 40% greater economy with a population that is merely 25% of Mexico?
The problem is the direction such revolutions often take; toward the hard left. We have enough commies of our own without a commie country next door.
Which is precisely why in that case the only solution is US Occupation of Mexico.
At least Commies like putting up walls.
As long as Mexico doesn’t put Russian bases there, I couldn’t care less what kind of government they have.
Like a Tootsie Roll, the mestizo drought lasted a long time.
Mind = Blown
In 1895, Japan tried to buy land for a naval base from Mexico, but Admiral Mahan of the US Navy raised holy hell, and the sale never took place thanks to some adroit diplomacy from President Cleveland.
And they'll be payin' for it!
From California to Mexico City
Invade Mexico and confiscate their natural resources as reparations.
Education
A more healthy economy
A more robust middle class
A government that doesn’t game the citizens to enrich a select few
These seem elemental things to us, but then they aren’t in Mexico.
I have been trying to push the idea that our nation could help the average Mexican a lot by investing there. This would not need to be at our expense. We’re talking about low wage jobs that could spark the economy down there.
This wouldn’t take our jobs. It would simply create jobs down there for Mexicans.
I’m talking low budget fast food and the like. Once that kicks off, you have more income flowing into the homse in the area. That means they can spend more. Other businesses crop up because there’s more expendable income.
Clothing, household goods, and other things would start selling more. The people selling those items would invest more and other businesses would crop up.
In twenty years, the Mexicans could have much better communities.
I don’t have all the answers, but with some good minds brought together on this, I think we could help the average Mexican in ways that would cause them to be less inclined to break into the U.S.
If they can support their families down there, they won’t be motivated to come here.
That country has always been in a revolution. It’s a third world failed nation run by drugs and illegal aliens sending money back to their families. The people want communism but wrap up in “people power” movements like the Zapatistas so as to say it’s a wonderful great democracy. The whole nation needs the leadership flushed.
“If America chooses to dispense charity to a war torn neighbor, nothing stops us from establishing a SAFE ZONE on Mexican soil and aiding refugees there”
Of course you are correct.
I put “have no choice but to help” in quotes as that is how it will be sold to us. Every leftist article, blog post, talk show, and late night comedy host will use a combination of guilt, national pride in helping neighbors, and “what kind of country do we be” in the sale job.
Well, truth be told, the first President of Modern Mexico, Lázaro Cárdenas (in office December 1, 1934 – November 30, 1940), was the first child of eight from a lower-middle-class mestizo family in the village of Jiquilpan, Michoacán, where his father owned a billiard hall.
Mural in Jiquilpan, Michoacán of President Lázaro Cárdenas with campesinos.
Near as I can tell, though, the rest came from Mexico's high-middle-to-upper crust.
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