Mexican Chiapas rebels threaten U.S. ranch owners

Reuters Alert News ^ | 01 Feb 2003 00:09 | Elizabeth Fullerton

[ErnBatavia]

Wersch and Jones, former Peace Corps volunteers who invested their life savings in the ranch

Apparently they didn't save enough to buy some newspapers for the last decade or so, to get a glimmer that their little dream wasn't really viable.

[neutrino]

Sow the fields with salt and go

I see that you have an appreciation for the classical approach, as do I!

[PokeyJoe]

Set fire to the house and barn, then spray the entire ranch with Agent Orange, and put sulfer in the water, grab a gun and put up a sign that says, "tresspassers will be shot", and buy a couple of hungry tigers to prowl the land for fresh meat.

[Centurion2000]

Since 1994, pro-Zapatista peasants have invaded hundreds of rich ranches around Ocosingo, the nearest town to Rancho Esmeralda and some 300 miles (500 km) south of Mexico City.

The government has let the peasants keep the bulk of the property in a belated attempt at land redistribution.

From Zimbabwe to Mexico in only a few years .... my my how progress goes.

[B4Ranch]

Leg popper land mines are less air polution. Remember the New World Order!

[Centurion2000]

Leg popper land mines are less air polution

And can be made from 12 gauge shells and pipe quite easily. :)

If you lose your land, deny anyone decent use of it.

[madfly]

fyi

[janetgreen]

Gosh, I wonder what Bush's buddy Vicente Fox has to say about this...

[FITZ]

I think Bush's buddy Fox wasted his administration. Instead of making conditions better in Mexico, he was eagerly trying to get rid of as many of his citizens as he could and instead that made things worse.

I think history will show that the safety valved named the USA backfired on the Mexican elites.

[FITZ]

The U.S. should immediately take over that country, clean it up and make it the mecca it should and could be.

It might be too late. We've managed to prop up the elite ruling class of Mexico for so long now. There is a great hunger for "government of the people, by the people, for the people" in Mexico but there have been Communists working overtime down there while we befriended their oppressors.

[janetgreen]

I think Bush's buddy Fox wasted his administration

I concur. It's called taking the easy way out. All boots, no brains.