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In Defense of the People of Mexico
In Defense of the Mexican People: The Campesina’s Grass Roots Response to the Disaster of NAFTA and Illegal CIA Intervention In the Affairs of Mexico
by Mike Harris
In my recent article, I promoted a shift to an aggressive US foreign policy with Mexico. A change is drastically needed. The continuing failures of US Policy are punishing both the citizens of the USA and the citizens Mexico, who in my opinion are suffering greatly from US interventions in the domestic affairs of Mexico.
Let us examine in this discussion the effects of US Policies on the lives of those who are directly affected the most, the people of Mexico. The business interests in the USA have been displeased with and wary of the Government of Mexico since the nationalization of the oil industry, by President Cardenas in 1938. The result was that the 7 sisters, the seven very large US oil companies who lost their substantial investment in the developing Mexican oil industry, were furious and vowed revenge upon President Cardenas and Mexico.
The trend of Mexico acting in its own strategic and national best interest was again demonstrated by President Jose Lopez Portillo, in 1982 when under his direction the privately owned foreign banks were nationalized. This infuriated the international bankers including what in the USA are now known as the “to big to fails”. This was coincident with the first term of US President Ronald Reagan, (more on this later).
Since most of the true motives of US foreign policy remain hidden from the electorate and citizens of the USA, on the surface it seems like the blame for the drug wars and illegal immigration lies squarely upon the shoulders of the Mexicans themselves with complicity from the Government of Mexico.
Nothing ever happens in a vacuum. Sir Isaac Newton was correct as everyone who has studied basic physics can tell you “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction”. Things are seldom what they seem, to find the truth, one must be willing to look at the data, and reach a decision based upon facts, not beliefs.
Most people in the USA love and admire Ronald Reagan, I did too. What most Americans still do not see are the behind the scenes foreign policy compromises, mistakes and blunders that occurred during the Reagan Administration. These blunders from the Reagan era have created many of the problems the USA suffers from today. The Democrats held congressional hearing about Iran-Contra, which featured the testimony of Colonel Oliver North. That was great televised political drama, but the real crimes were never revealed to the public, instead it was talked around and never fully disclosed.
During Iran-Contra the nexus of the scandal was that elements within the CIA were importing drugs from South America and elsewhere, selling them into densely populated, poverty stricken, mostly minority areas in US inner Cities. The proceeds from the CIA drug trafficking were directed to the Contras of El Salvador for the purchase of guns, weapons and war materials for the covert CIA backed war to prevent another Sandinista type regime from taking power in El Salvador. The use of the revenue from drug trafficking was also used to buy off the Iranians with weapons for their war with Saddam Hussein and Iraq. This was negotiated by former CIA Director and Vice President George H.W. Bush during secret meetings in France. This was all set in to motion when Bush persuaded the Iranians to delay releasing the US hostages captured when the US Embassy was taken during the Carter Administration, by Iranian students during the revolution that deposed the Shah.
The point to remember is this, during the Reagan administration with the direct intervention of George H.W. Bush, a major revenue source was created by CIA drug trafficking. A revenue source that was exempt from Congressional oversight and review. Under the direction of Reagan and Bush, the CIA was operating unlawfully and without US Congressional oversight. This is the shadow government that directs the impotent elected government of the USA.
This is how an unaccountable revenue stream was created, which continues to this day, now there are US troops guarding the poppy fields in Afghanistan and which generates an estimated $100 Billion/year just from that one operation. There are no estimates of the rest of the global drug traffic the CIA controls. We do know that the majority of US drug traffic comes through Mexico and into the USA at the border with Arizona.
We still have the problem of the illegal aliens and how they fit into this unlawful equation. In 1986 President Ronald Reagan granted a “one time” amnesty under the Simpson-Mazoli Act, to 4.3 million mostly Mexican illegal aliens living within the United States. There were hollow promises of strict border enforcement and a promise of never again. What was not discussed was the quid pro quo agreement that followed the amnesty. President Jose Lopez Portillo agreed to return the assets of the foreign banks he had nationalized in Mexico, in exchange for the one time amnesty, instead of a mass deportation, like President Eisenhower had done in 1954 when 1.3 million illegal aliens were deported back to Mexico.
A deal was reached where certain nationalized banks would again be privatized and returned with all of their assets to their original owners. There you have it, the banks get their investments and money back and the USA gets 4.3 million uninvited, unwanted new citizens. In order to obfuscate this quid pro quo, the banks had to wait for the return of their assets returned until the election of President Carlos Salinas Di Gortari and George H.W. Bush in 1988, after both Reagan and Lopez Portillo had finished their respective terms, and their hand picked successors took over.
Now, we have two situations, one is a channel for drug trafficking has been established in Mexico run by the CIA that generates huge amounts of unaccountable cash. The other is there is now a legal precedent for amnesty for illegal aliens who enter the USA and are rewarded with benefits and citizenship, and unrestricted illegal immigration.
When President George H.W. Bush ran for re-election in 1992 as the sitting incumbent, he was not counting on business dynamo and popular folk hero H. Ross Perot throwing his hat into the ring. Bush was counting on soundly defeating William Jefferson Clinton, and he would have, except Ross Perot with his strong business savvy message against NAFTA. Everyone remembers Perot’s famous quote about that giant sucking sound is US jobs going to Mexico. Perot won 20% of the vote and Clinton won the election, not by a majority, but by a plurality, but Clinton won and Papa Bush was suddenly and unexpectedly unemployed.
NAFTA was touted to be an economic boom, a new economic golden age for the USA with unrestricted free trade from Mexico to Canada. The USA was going to be shipping everything from Caterpillar tractors, Chevrolet’s and toaster ovens everywhere in North America, and lots of them. The reality is that NAFTA is an unmitigated disaster for every country that signed the free trade agreement, especially Mexico. What the Mexican people did not anticipate and were not informed about in advance was the movement of big USA agri-business into Mexico. Suddenly small farmers could not compete at any level with the big agro-producers. The same thing happened in the USA where US family farmers have been systemically destroyed, bankrupted and put out of business, driven off of their family farms in the USA, by the same big agro-producers. The process of agricultural consolidation began in USA during the Great Depression, in Mexico it happened when NAFTA was signed. In Mexico it happened must faster, virtually overnight, as a condition of the banks being returned to their US owners, the mechanisms were all pre-positioned in advance of signing the NAFTA free trade agreement. The Mexican farmers were out of work, homeless , dispossessed, and unemployed, overnight.
The result is the nearly 70 million Mexican subsistence farmers have been displaced off of the land their families have occupied for generations. The displaced farmers have two choices, either move into a big city, like Mexico City, Guadalajara or any of several others, where there is no work for the unskilled. The other choice is to enter the USA illegally and try to find work to support their families. We know that at least 35 million have made the choice to enter the USA illegally, hoping for a job and perhaps another amnesty. That means that 35 million dispossessed farmers who have remained in Mexico must find another method to provide for their families.
Mexico, has many millions of people living in abject poverty, bone crushing poverty, there is no language harsh enough to describe the severity of their living conditions. The question, every Mexican young man must ask, is how will I make a living and support my family?
Back to the CIA: the Central Intelligence Agency involved with their many foreign intrigues, made a decision to protect the revenue stream generated by drug trafficking. How to do this and not get caught? A decision was made to train a cadre of Mexican Army Officers to combat the emerging threat of Communism and terrorism represented by the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. This cadre of Mexican Army Officers was sent to the “School of the Americas” at Fort Benning Georgia, and trained extensively in every aspect of guerrilla warfare, intelligence, torture and covert operations. This was the beginning of the Zetas.
The Zetas have evolved from being defenders of democracy in Mexico and Central America into one of the CIA’s favorite major drug cartels currently operating in Mexico. In fact members of the Zetas are involved with virtually every drug cartel operating north of the Panama Canal.
The CIA involvement in the drug traffic has expanded enormously, the remnants of the CIA operations left over from El Salvador now reside and operate within Los Angeles County, you know them as MS-13, with over 50,000 known gang members in California alone. MS-13 now has personnel in virtually every city with a population over 30,000 people in the United States, coast to coast, actively involved in drug traffic and many other criminal enterprises. MS-13 is not simply a gang, but a US trained military organization that was trained in covert operations, operating within the USA.
This situation was created by very bad and short sighted foreign and domestic policy decisions that began during the Reagan administration. These bad policies continue to the present day. The CIA shadow government now has more control over US policy than the impotent and emasculated US elected government. This situation was created by the US Government. The Mexican people who have been caught up in these bad policies have been squeezed into two bad choices, enter the USA illegally and hope for another amnesty or remain in Mexico, live in poverty and try to stay alive with a raging drug war going on all around you. Over 43,000 Mexican citizens have been killed to date, with no end or relief in sight.
The continuation of bad US policies continues to this day, under the direction of Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder. Just look at the BATF failed gun running scheme, Operation Fast and Furious, where the BATF has supplied over 30,000 military grade weapons and 20 million rounds of ammunition to the Mexican drug cartels. Is this seemingly insane action starting to make sense now??
Mexican law enforcement is no match for the cartels; US law enforcement is no match for the cartels. I see no other option than to deploy the US Military into Mexico to create a safe zone to quell the drug traffic and stop the drug wars. The intended result is to create a safe environment, free of drugs, for the benefit of the citizens of both the USA and Mexico. There is no other institution capable of bringing order out of this dangerous situation. The US Military has spent $3 trillion dollars fighting Al Qaeda, in the far off battle theaters of operation in Afghanistan and Iraq, but ignore the real threat in every neighborhood in the USA, real covert operatives like Los Zetas and MS-13 currently out number Al Qaeda by a thousand to one.
Another longer term option that may be successful is to legalize the drugs that are being trafficked; this will take the profit motive out of the drug trade. This is no different than liquor during the period of prohibition. Legalize drugs, regulate, and tax them. Put them under the supervision of the FDA to guarantee quality, dosage and purity. Take the price premium out of drugs that illegality commands, make drugs as cheap as rat poison and watch demand fall, just like Portugal. . This will starve the CIA covert operations and make these agencies accountable to congress and the US taxpayers once again. In Portugal the legalization of drugs has been a remarkable success, with a double digit reduction in year over year drug usage.
Please understand the effect on domestic politics that this CIA drug money has, it allows the CIA using surrogates to buy and influence congressional elections both in the House and the Senate. This can be illustrated by the rise of so many previously unknown Tea Party candidates, and the fund raising success of President Obama, when so many small donations came in from undisclosed donors.
Every sitting member congress in both houses can now be induced to disobey the will of the people. Do you want proof?? Just look at the passage of Obama care which has been overwhelmingly unpopular with voters, yet it was passed. The money from drugs has allowed the Central Intelligence Agency has become a dictator to congress, the servant has become the master.
Maybe once the border region is under control again then the people of Mexico who are illegally in the USA will feel safe enough to return to their homeland and rebuild Mexico into the kind of country they want it to be. Mexico is a beautiful and wealthy country. The issues of social justice, the disparity and concentration of wealth must be addressed to make life equitable and sustainable for all the people of Mexico.
Since the genesis of the problems with Mexico began under President Reagan and George H.W. Bush when they tried to circumvent congressional oversight to fight an unauthorized war in Central America, the United States should offer every assistance to the people and Government of Mexico to re-establish the rule of law, and address the conditions of social injustices in Mexico.
First the United States needs to get its own house in order, and remove the current corrupted management of all of the major intelligence agencies. Every US intelligence agency is complicit in these criminal activities. They all need to be held accountable, congressional or citizen hearings need to be held, with the power of subpoena, and the guilty need to be tried and convicted. This is a catastrophic mess, it did not happen overnight and it will not be resolved overnight, but it must be resolved. It will take an unprecedented level of cooperation between the governments of the USA and Mexico.
To fail to resolve this, it will result in civil war in one, or maybe both countries. If there was ever a time and reason to cooperate for the common good it is now. If we fail at this, the drug violence in Mexico, will be coming to a neighborhood near you, soon.
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Mike Harris,
Excellent post and coverage of the background is essential
The continuation of bad US policies continues to this day, under the direction of Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder. Just look at the BATF failed gun running scheme, Operation Fast and Furious, where the BATF has supplied over 30,000 military grade weapons and 20 million rounds of ammunition to the Mexican drug cartels. Is this seemingly insane action starting to make sense now??
Defending the Mexicans is political correctness. If Mexicans want a better life instead of coming to the United States and sponging off decent, hard working, White Americans, they should stay home and fight for reform. Instead they’re just lazy and come to America with their hand held open demanding everything be given to them on a bogus claim that Whites stole Mexico from them. Instead they should think why they speak Spanish instead of English (clue: Because they were conquered by Spain, not White Europeans).
I agree 100% that the Mexicans should take what they have learned here in the USA home to Mexico and force reform upon their own government.
I agree 100% that the Mexicans should take what they have learned here in the USA home to Mexico and force reform upon their own government.
i love sarcasm
more like the Mexicans(or anybody else) could not have learned very much about reforming Government in USA from Americans , at least for the last 10 years
No Sarcasm intended. I desire that all the illegals leave the USA and return to Mexico or any the other countries of origin, and build their countries, along the American ideals or any other concepts that have resonance with their people. BTW: W.U.J.B. I appreciate your insight and substantial intellect. Keep up the good work.
So much for Freedom of Expression when all of the comments have been removed.
Please note that you’re dead on accurate when you say: “People of Mexico”. They are “People of Mexico” living in the United States of America. Which means they need to go back to being “People of Mexico, living in Mexico”
Mexico has been in the crosshairs of the New World dysOrder for long time. It was scheduled to be taken down after the Russian Revolution and paid for by the same skanks. They decided to attack and destroy the Church first as it was so influential in Mexicans’ lives, and therefore posed a threat to the planned Communist system to be foisted upon the populace.
But for all their money and power the anti-culture NWO dummies did not even consider that the docile Mexicans would organize and fight back with fury. It became known as the 1926 Cristero War, it lasted four years, and when it was over 100,000 ordinary Mexicans lay dead. It is not by coincidence that the CW was airbrushed out of history books for it was a massive NWO failure. So it can be done.
They were more successful in the murders of the clergy which was one of their primary goals. Anyone could shoot and kill a priest no questions asked. Churches could be ransacked no questions asked. The extensive Carmelite system was raided at will and the young women carried off, and even the older ones met similar fates. No questions asked. Plutarco Calles was the president at the time, taking orders from the same gang of street rats whose only means of survival is war, bloodshed, control. Rinse, repeat.
Immigration is nothing new, even the Romans had immigration laws for they knew it was part and parcel of the Empire but needed some kind of regulation. What we have is not immigration, it is an attemt to blur the lines we call borders, and make their eventual elimination that much easier, so that the world will be one big resource pit and the people debris to be moved away. This is also why the complex of culture and identity, which have been built up over centuries and more, is such a threat to the street rats (central bankers) and why they have countered it with the fake policy of multiculturalism.
Mexico has more than enough resources to be a wealthy country with a healthy and prosperous population. But there are those who want the first and fear the second, so they lure them northward and away from their birthright and heritage. After the Cristero War there were enough Marxists in place to carefully and quietly bring Mexico into the fold. Until Mexicans and American understand this we will all be chasing our tails while the globablists consolidate power.
Regarding NAFTA please look at North America on the Gomberg Map below and look at the publication date. NAFTA was in place before the first ship was destroyed in Pearl Harbor. Also notice Tibet(?) and the creation of Eastern Europe. those are just a few, take a look at the others. Remember, this map was out before we entered WW2.
http://bigthink.com/ideas/21338
Drugs are no surprise either, the same skanks and street rats took down the Chinese Empire the same way so they have had success, so will continue to use the narco trade to wear down the population until they are ripe for takeover.
First, this quote is so true and apropo:
“The CIA shadow government now has more control over US policy than the impotent and emasculated US elected government. This situation was created by the US Government. ”
Nice to see this in print more and more. People need to know that “our” govt. does not represent us, but their own concerns and profits.
Secondly, I must say the statement of commentor and article writer Haris, leaves a bit to be desired.
Does not History tell us that these same people once lived and traded with the Indians in the US for centuries before our ancestors came and ran them out? They were very nomadic also to a degree.
The influx of so many is explained in the article, and very well, but telling all Mexicans they need to go ‘home’ is unfair. The way I see it, they are home to a degree.
They work at jobs that Americans are unwilling to do, even in this dire economy. Immigrant labor has been around since I was growing up in Indiana 55 years ago and I’m sure before. They came yearly to pick tomatoes that were canned in a local factory in my home town.
There are no real answers in my mind. The damage was done first by Big Oil and later the CIA and the corrupt people that really run things in this Once Fine Nation we call home. It is easy to shift the blame on others, but the truth of the matter is when you take away a culture from a peoples, they get desperate.
Take a close look around you, it is happening with Americans now and will get increasingly worse, as policy is NOT going to change unless there is a total revolt and cleansing of the system. Since so many facors are used to “divide and conquer”, the American people will never see eye to eye enough to fix all the wrong done. All these little petty differences are magnified by the new and old politicians we are lied to by so they can enjoy the perks and under the table $$$$ they garner .
There are no quick answers, but a fair, unbiased, and non racial dialog may well be a start.
We are neighbors across boarders. Lets act like it without undue finger pointing and prejudice.
the Mexican people have been crushed by the global corporations as well
http://www.growswitch.com/blog/2011/08/mexico-doesnt-need-monsantos-wonder-seeds-either/
the government imposed drug wars provide vast wealth and are a great tool for organized directed chaos
social/financial/economic/political/etc
perhaps Mexico is 15-20 years ahead ( or much less) of the overall intended scenario for the USA
mega Corporations to absorb every square inch of Mexico & USA
They have been at it for a long time. We are governed by white trash. I don’t care how much money they have, they are trash.
http://www.copi.com/articles/Guyatt/deep_black.html
Ann
good link
20th Century news/history was a narrative for an alternate reality that never was
this century too
Ann
during the Vietnam War can you guess from which Country weapons/equipment were manufactured and provided to North Vietnam
to be used against American Soldiers in Vietnam ?
I see no other option than to deploy the US Military into Mexico to create a safe zone to quell the drug traffic and stop the drug wars. The intended result is to create a safe environment, free of drugs, for the benefit of the citizens of both the USA and Mexico. There is no other institution capable of bringing order out of this dangerous situation. The US Military has spent $3 trillion dollars fighting Al Qaeda, in the far off battle theaters of operation in Afghanistan and Iraq, but ignore the real threat in every neighborhood in the USA, real covert operatives like Los Zetas and MS-13 currently out number Al Qaeda by a thousand to one.
You are describing a scenario with the U.S. Army/Marines deployed with a Major mission that runs completely contrary to ABC/XYZ , I can easily imagine numerous scenarios/tactics that would be detrimental to the U.S. Army/Marines , sabotage/false flag attacks on steroids/interception- resourcing of communications/ hundreds or thousands of American BDU uniforms handed out to
MS-13,etc. / etc. Corruption in D.C. , who trusts who ?
energy/emp/emf weapons used discreetly or not so discreetly against the U.S. Army/Marines by
ABC/XYX
Ford Steps In
Ironically, one of the reasons LULAC dropped middle-class patriotism for the ethnic hustle was that it had to compete with the more radical Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) and National Council of La Raza (La Raza) — which were not popular Hispanic organizations but creatures of the Ford Foundation.
Perhaps the best book about MAL-DEF is Importing Revolution: Open Borders and The Radical Agenda by William R. Hawkins, on which this account draws heavily. MALDEF’s found-er, Peter Tijerina, was a disaffected LULAC chapter chairman who didn’t think the league had followed up on Hernandez v. Texas with enough legal activism. He wanted LULAC to copy the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (NAACP-LDF), and in 1966, he sent a league member to the NAACP-LDF’s Chicago convention. On the strength of contacts made at the convention, Jack Greenberg, president of the NAACP-LDF, arranged for Mr. Tijerina to meet Bill Pincus, head of the Ford Foundation. Mr. Pincus agreed to fund a new organization to push Mexican interests exactly the way the NAACP-LDF pushed black interests. Mr. Tijerina was MALDEF’s first executive director, and, in 1970, Mario Obledo, former Texas Attorney General, became General Counsel. The Foundation then awarded the organization a five-year grant of more than $2 million.
Ford handled more than just the money. It appointed the executive director, decided where the headquarters should be, and the type of legal cases to pursue. At first, MALDEF brought cases about education, school desegregation, voting rights, job discrimination, composition of draft boards, and the status of anti-Vietnam war protesters. Ford thought this wasn’t radical enough. It wanted precedent-setting cases to go all the way to the Supreme Court for rulings that would change the country. MALDEF duly redirected much of its efforts towards bilingual education and immigration
MALDEF opposes securing the Mexican border even to stop the flow of illegal drugs. When the Federal government launched “Joint Task Force Six” to combat drug smuggling along the border, MALDEF filed suit to halt the project, arguing that “it would cause irreparable damage to the human and physical environment in the area.” What does MALDEF want? According to Mario Obledo, who rose to become head of the fund, “California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who does not like it should leave.” In 1998, President Clinton awarded Mr. Obledo the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
MALDEF gets funding from corporations — AT&T and IBM in particular — and foundations. For the period 1991-1995, the total amount of “gifts, grants and contributions” to MALDEF was over $17 million. Between 1996 and 1998, MALDEF received over nine million dollars from just three foundations: the vast majority — over six million dollars — from the Ford Foundation; $1,200,000 from the Carnegie Corporation, and another $1,525,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation. The fund does not even pretend to be a membership organization. Other than gifts, its main source of income is settlements and awards of attorneys’ fees in court cases. In 1995, for example, it collected over $1.1 million spread over a number of different cases. The largest award was $299,000 in something called Lopez v. Del Valle.
Admiral Pedro Menendez de Aviles arrived in 1565 for the express purpose of exterminating the French Huguenots who had founded Fort Caroline in northeastern Florida. After killing all of them, including children and pregnant women, the Spanish renamed the colony “San Mateo,” a name it still bears. Needless to say, Admiral de Aviles was no mestizo either.
Hispanics like to claim not only that they were here first, but that they were present in large numbers in the Southwest when the United States annexed it in 1848. In fact, in 1821, the Spanish-speaking population in the Mexican province of Texas numbered only 3,000 — and this was a vast territory of 389,000 square miles that included most of present-day New Mexico and part of Colorado in addition to Texas. By 1834, ten years after the Mexican Government first invited Americans to settle in Texas, Americans outnumbered ethnic Mexicans ten to one. In 1860, ethnic Mexicans were less than two percent of the total population of Texas — an estimated 12,000 out of a total population of 600,000. By 1900, the number of ethnic Mexicans had risen to 70,000 but was still less than three percent of a Texas population exceeding three million. In fact, in San Antonio, home of the Alamo and cradle of Texas Independence, there were more German immigrants than ethnic Mexicans.
It was the dismantling of immigration restrictions in 1965 that brought in large numbers of people who now claim to have been here all along.
FORD FOUNDATION
1960′s 1970′s composed/published and sent spanish language textbooks to Mexican schools with an intended Anti-American bias in the historical narratives, working to promote a determined
agenda of long term social engineering,
this has probably been largely cleaned from the net along with so much else
???
Corporate Mercs with Mexican & American uniforms/equipment , with some of these forces using uniforms interchangeably for maximum chaos and also to enrage Mexican/American Army units against each other even when or especially when engaged in joint agreed upon goals/missions/operations.
???
Something like this is needed to restore territorial integrity, one of the requirements to fit the definition of a Sovereign Nation
?
Put them under the supervision of the FDA to guarantee quality, dosage and purity…
that still allows this corporate thing FDA to control/regulate and stick their finger and SWAT TEAMS into the lives of those who are hurting no one.
NO, that will still allow the ABC/XYZ/DEF/GHI/ to “get their cut” by steering obcene profit margins to pharma cartel/ soak up more medicare,etc. etc. WITH LOTS OF ENDLESS NEW REGULATIONS ADMNISTERED BY THOUSANDS OF REGULATORS NO ONE NEEDS
FDA is a captured bureacracy for pharma lobbies and those who are terrified of raw milk,
it would be far more productive/efficient to just cut off all funding and authority and let it dry up and fade away
The states can address this in their own way as they see fit
Prisons for profits lobbies are committed to maintaining this artificial madness
About the Vietnam question above, I would guess the weapons came from the same DC cockroaches who were promoting the conflict for narcotics profits. The massive addiction problem among GI’s was way too high to be coincidental. Nothing is ever what it seems.
They’ve been at the weapons scam for a while, did the same thing during WW1 but that preplanned war was another racket nowhere near the alibi fed to us. That is why they are pounding on the war drums day and night – they know the information is surfacing and they have to act before it becomes common knowledge and the window closes.
Ann: thanks for the info on Cristeros- Miguel Pro, etc. Woodrow Wilson did nothing and his attaches to Mexico took delight in seeing Catholics killed. I believe Pro was killed after Wilson left office but the slaughter went on for years. Then it was Spain’s turn in 1930s with near 7,000 religious tortured and killed.
Of course Woodrow Wilson got ?86,000 Americans of all religions and no religions killed in the “great war for civilization”.
Nice article-thanks. I had known years ago how mexican farmers got destroyed- but so did those in America.
US the NAFTA Nation
The average Mexican worker at the assembly plants make about 8 dollars per day, after taxes an SS. After paying bus fares an lunch you might have a few pesos for rent and a few cervezas to relax. Most families have several members working to make it. The disparity between the rich an the poor is obvious. On top of this the cost of cell phone time is high an electronic equipment is highly taxed, especially imported goods. This accounts for the huge amount of corruption. Most Americans would revolt at this way of life.
Sending the US military here would be a disaster, the US has already caused enough problems here, keep out, change your drug laws.