Monterrey, Mexico, Touted As Model

yahoo.com ^ | March 15, 2002 | JULIE WATSON, AP

[Cincinatus' Wife]

You can't please all the people all of the time.

[El Gato]

We're losing our Mexican identity and instead absorbing the values of North Americans

Strictly speaking, Mexicans *are* North Americans. Central America starts at Mexico's southern border and ends at Colombia's border with Panama.

[El Gato]

But he lives in a cement hovel.

Which better than the tin and straw hovel he'd be in if still in Oaxaca. He said he tried to find a factory job, but no one would hire him because he has only a few years of schooling.

And whose fault is that? AFAIK, Mexico has free public schooling, (although it's pretty bad in some places, since it's teachers are often relatives of political types not really qualified for the job, or any other for that matter) and it's theoreticaly mandatory for more than "a few years".

[driftless]

So true. Free trade and lot of local enterprise by the people are creating wealth for everybody. So you'd think everyone would be happy, right? Well not so. There will always be the requsite socialists who will carp about the monetary disparities....in other words, everyone should have the same amount of money or else it's a rotten capitalist tragedy. In short, to them it's much better if everyone lives in unimaginable squalor. At least it's egalitarian.

[dighton]

... In short, to them it's much better if everyone lives in unimaginable squalor.

You read my mind, for which I'm tempted to hit abuse. Please don't let it happen again.

;-)

[RippleFire]

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Don't forget:

• UN International Conference on Financing
  for Development in Monterrey, March 18-22

• 2nd World Assembly on Ageing in Madrid,
   April 8-12

• Special Session on Children in NYC, May 8-10

• World Food Summit in Rome, June 10-13

• World Summit on Sustainable Development
  in Johannesburg, Aug. 26 - Sept. 4

[Willie Green]

With more millionaires per capita than any other area in Mexico...
the urban minimum wage is $4 a day -

Kinda sez it all.

The PRI is very successful at maintaining a two-tiered socio-economic structure.

[ohmage]

At the risk of preaching to the choir... Sierra Times

But, but, it's such a benevolent organization, how could anyone be concerned about the UN?

[NMC EXP]

Monterrey is playing host to the U.N. International Conference on Financing for Development, an unprecedented world summit on how to combat poverty and redistribute wealth around the globe. Fifty-two heads of state are expected to attend, including President Bush and Cuban President Fidel Castro

Willie you really should not rub it in. The globalization cheerleaders around here really do not believe that this tide will lift all boats. They just plan on being the ones sitting on the veranda of the global plantation mansion sipping juleps while the peons labor away in the fields, or play mariachi music for them.

Regards

J.R.

[Willie Green]

They just plan on being the ones sitting on the veranda of the global plantation mansion sipping juleps while the peons labor away in the fields, or play mariachi music for them.

Maximilian had the same dream.
The Mexicans shot him.

[Prodigal Daughter]

Of all places for the globalists to pick!

MEXICAN SEPHARDIC SOURCES. Keep in mind that Monterrey, and the state of Nuevo Leon, was settled by 695 Jewish families escaping the Inquisition in Mexico City. Texas was formerly part of Nuevo Leon. Also, Alonso de Leon, son of the governor of Nuevo Leon who lived in Monclova, was from a family who lost several members in the Inquisition. He led 11 expeditions into Texas to find La Salle's Fort St. Louis on Garcitas Creek, the last in 1691. Mexican Sephardic sources bibliography, etc.

Monterrey is Spanish for Mountain of the King. Nuevo Leon was originally "Nuevo Leon de Juda" (New Lion of Judah). A common last name in that part of Mexico is Montoya which is a name many Jews escaping the Inquisition adopted. It's short for "Monte de Y-h" or Y-h's Mountain.

.THE CONQUISTADORES AND CRYPTO-JEWS OF MONTERREY Borders Books, #809

Monterrey, among the cities of Mexico, has a mystique all its own, marked by an enduring and controversial “Jewish question” regarding its founding in 1596. Vito Alessio Robles, the eminent Saltillo scholar early on stated that “all the citizens of Monterrey descend from Jews.” After a public outcry Alessio Robles had to retract his statement. This book reviews the claim that many of the first settlers of Monterrey were indeed of Jewish descent.

The author focuses primarily on the Garza family and establishes beyond a doubt that they were conversos, New Christians from original Jewish families, sometimes labeled Crypto-Jews if they lapsed back to practicing their Jewish faith in secret, the persons pursued by the Inquisition He claims through new archival research that ancestors of the Garza’s were burned at the stake in the 1526 Auto de fé held in the Canary Islands.

In this work, the saga of the principal figures in the Monterrey region during the formative era-Luis de Carvajal, Alberto del Canto, Gaspar Castaño de Sosa, Diego de Montemayor, Francisco Báez de Benavides and Captain Joseph Martínez family of Marin-are presented against the backdrop of the ongoing settlement efforts and battles with the Indians. Valley Village, CA, 2001, 1st Ed., 296 Pgs., HB $40.00.

Texas Rabbi Claims Mexico Playing Host to a Lost Tribe

[Nix 2]

Oh, brother! As if the Aryans needed to know we also built the most civilized city in Mexico. Dang! All their fantasy plantations and philo plankton are belong to us. ROFLMAO! Wait 'til they find out about Costa Rica. Oy.

[FITZ]

I only saw Monterrey once and it was at night ---but I've heard it's the most advanced city in Mexico. It shows the right way ---bring American type businesses and American culture into Mexico. They are so worried about keeping the border open for Mexicans to come shop in the US ---but it seems to me a lot better if they'd put the Walmarts and McDonalds on their own side ---then they wouldn't have to wait in line at the border, there'd be a lot less traffic and driving, they'd have nicer jobs that could pay better. Even if they didn't get US salaries like they do by working in a US Walmart, they could get close ---and have lower prices.

[doc]

I've been to Monterey and if they are trying to convince us that this city is like an American city, BS. However, after Bush's amnesty program this article could be considered quite "progressive".

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Wages for laborers can be as much as five times higher than in the rest of the country - where the urban minimum wage is $4 a day - and the people of Monterrey study an average of three years more than other Mexicans. The crime rate is among the lowest for Mexico's metropolitan areas, and its police are considered among the least corrupt.

Now that sentence wasn't very clear.
Is it saying that the minimun wage in Monterrey is $4 a day or that is what it is in other urban areas?
I read it to mean it is $20 a day in Monterrey.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

He also said he was there and working so his children could get an education and move up the socio-economic ladder.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

There will always be the requsite socialists who will carp about the monetary disparities....in other words, everyone should have the same amount of money or else it's a rotten capitalist tragedy.

Bump!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I'm glad President George Bush is representing us at the summit.
Picture Algore or Hillary wallowing on the international stage.