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    Approaching the Anniversary of Mexico's Expulsion of...

    About this time in April of 1998 Mexico began a violent program of expelling foreigners from Chiapas on grounds that the mere presence of foreigners (there legally it is important to note) was a threat to national sovereignty. This is simply indicative of the hypocrisy and I thought I would mention it. In any event it leads to the American support of the building of a secure border between Mexico and its neighbors to the south.

    Here is the original dipatch from Michael Drudge:
    ATE=4/13/98
    TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
    NUMBER=2-229597
    TITLE=MEXICO/CHIAPAS (L)
    BYLINE=MICHAEL DRUDGE
    DATELINE=SAN JOSE
    CONTENT=
    VOICED AT:
    INTRO: MEXICO HAS DEFENDED THE EXPULSION OF 12 MORE FOREIGNERS
    FROM CHIAPAS STATE FOR ALLEGEDLY MEDDLING IN INTERNAL MEXICAN
    POLITICS. AT THE SAME TIME, TWO INTERNATIONAL NEWS AGENCIES HAVE
    PROTESTED THE POLICE BEATING OF PHOTOGRAPHERS IN CHIAPAS. WE GET
    MORE FROM V-O-A'S CORRESPONDENT MICHAEL DRUDGE.
    TEXT: THE MEXICAN FOREIGN SECRETARY, ROSARIO GREEN, SAYS THE
    LATEST EXPULSION OF 12 FOREIGNERS IS NOT AN ACT OF XENOPHOBIA,
    BUT A DEFENSE OF MEXICAN INSTITUTIONS. SHE ADDRESSED THE
    QUESTION AT A NEWS CONFERENCE IN MEXICO CITY MONDAY,FOLLOWING THE
    WEEKEND DEPORTATION OF FOUR SPANIARDS, THREE AMERICANS, TWO
    BELGIANS, TWO CANADIANS AND A GERMAN.
    THE FOREIGNERS ARE ACCUSED OF HELPING REBELLIOUS INDIANS SET UP
    AN INDEPENDENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN TANIPERLAS, A CHIAPAN VILLAGE
    NEAR THE GUATEMALAN BORDER. HUNDREDS OF MEXICAN POLICE AND
    TROOPS RAIDED TANIPERLAS SATURDAY AND ARRESTED THE FOREIGNERS,
    ALONG WITH SEVERAL INDIGENOUS LEADERS.
    MEXICO IS VIGOROUSLY ENFORCING CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS THAT
    FORBID FOREIGNERS FROM MEDDLING IN MEXICAN POLITICS. MEXICO
    BELIEVES THE REBELLIOUS INDIAN MOVEMENT, LED BY THE ZAPATISTA
    NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY,POSES A THREAT TO NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY.
    CRACKDOWNS ON FOREIGNERS IN CHIAPAS HAVE INTENSIFIED SINCE
    DECEMBER WHEN APARAMILITARY GROUP WITH ALLEGED TIES TO THE
    CHIAPAS BRANCH OF MEXICO'S RULING PARTY KILLED 45 INDIANS IN A
    PRO-ZAPATISTA VILLAGE.
    IN ANOTHER DEVELOPMENT, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND THE FRENCH NEWS
    AGENCY A-F-P HAVE ISSUED A JOINT COMMUNIQUE ACCUSING POLICE OF
    AGGRESSION AGAINST THEIR PHOTOGRAPHERS IN CHIAPAS. A-P
    PHOTOGRAPHER PASCUAL GORRIZ MARCOS SAYS POLICE OPENED A GASH IN
    HIS HEAD WITH A RIFLE BUTT AS HE TOOK PHOTOS OF THE FOREIGNERS
    BEING PUT ON A PLANE BOUND FOR MEXICO CITY. A-F-P PHOTOGRAPHER
    ORIANA GONZALEZ ELICABE SAYS POLICE ROUGHED HER UP WHEN THEY
    TRIED TO CONFISCATE HER FILM AND CAMERAS.
    THE CHIAPAS GOVERNMENT SAYS THE PHOTOGRAPHERS PROVOKED THE
    INCIDENT BY BITING AND KICKING A POLICEMEN, A CHARGE THE
    JOURNALISTS DENY.(SIGNED).
    NEB/MWD/PT
    13-Apr-98 8:33 PM EDT (0033 UTC)
    NNNN
    Source: Voice of America
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    Also, the Anniversary of a major altercation between Mexican soldiers and US Border Patrol Agents that was dismissed by the Same foreign minister that ordered the expulsion of all foreigners. Here is the dispatch:

    DATE=4/7/2000
    TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
    TITLE=MEXICO BORDER(L-ONLY)
    NUMBER=2-261067
    BYLINE=GREG FLAKUS
    DATELINE=MEXICO CITY
    CONTENT=
    INTRO: Mexico's foreign minister is proposing new
    mechanisms to avoid accidental confrontations between
    Mexican and US law enforcement officials along the two
    nations' nearly two-thousand kilometer-long border.
    As VOA's Greg Flakus reports from Mexico City, there
    have been at least two potentially tragic clashes in
    recent weeks.
    TEXT: Mexican Foreign Minister Rosario Green says
    Mexico and the United States should work to develop a
    system of communication to avoid confusion and
    dangerous incidents between law enforcers at the
    border. She described an incident earlier this week
    as a "misunderstanding" that might have been avoided
    had there been better communication.
    The incident to which she referred happened Tuesday in
    a tunnel that connects the cities of Nogales, in the
    Mexican state of Sonora, with the city of Nogales,
    Arizona, on the US side of the border. Police from
    Nogales, Arizona entered the tunnel to prepare for the
    entry of a city repair crew that was installing new
    metal grates. When the police entered they were
    immediately confronted by armed men who turned out to
    be a Mexican army patrol searching for illegal aliens
    and drug smugglers. For a few tense seconds both
    sides stood facing each other with guns drawn. The
    incident ended without violence once both sides had
    identified themselves. The Mexican soldiers later
    admitted to having passed over to the US side of the
    tunnel by mistake.
    The Arizona policemen later said the standoff had
    nearly led to bloodshed and that, in the tight
    quarters of the dark tunnel, few would have been left
    alive if a gun battle had occurred. A Mexican army
    officer downplayed the incident and Mexican consul in
    Nogales, Roberto Burgos, praised both sides for acting
    "prudently and professionally."
    On March 14, there was a confrontation in a desert
    area near the border in the state of New Mexico
    between Mexican soldiers and US Border Patrol agents
    in which shots were fired. The Border Patrol detained
    several Mexican soldiers who had accidently crossed
    the border on an anti-narcotics operation. The Border
    Patrol agents say they came under fire from another
    group of soldiers who were on the Mexican side, but
    they did not return fire. The detained soldiers were
    later released and allowed to return to Mexico.
    (Signed)
    NEB/PT
    07-Apr-2000 18:31 PM EDT (07-Apr-2000 2231 UTC)
    NNNN
    Source: Voice of America

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    So much hypocrisy in that country, and so little common sense.

    We need to keep the memories of Mexico's hypocrisy alive so that Americans will know how they truly are, and what they are truly about.
    “In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, Brave, Hated, and Scorned. When his cause succeeds however,the timid join him, For then it costs nothing to be a Patriot.â€

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    Quote Originally Posted by AE
    So much hypocrisy in that country, and so little common sense.

    We need to keep the memories of Mexico's hypocrisy alive so that Americans will know how they truly are, and what they are truly about.
    Oh come on now AE, we all know they are just good folks here to work and provide for their family back home... OKAY, CUT OFF MY TONGUE...
    "Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the same results is the definition of insanity. " Albert Einstein.

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    Mexico is NOT about COMMON sense and DECENCY because she is the world's BIGGEST MENDACITY!

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    THE MEXICAN FOREIGN SECRETARY, ROSARIO GREEN, SAYS THE
    LATEST EXPULSION OF 12 FOREIGNERS IS NOT AN ACT OF XENOPHOBIA,
    BUT A DEFENSE OF MEXICAN INSTITUTIONS.
    The deportations of illegal aliens from the US are not acts of xenophobia, but a defense of US institutions!
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    Quote Originally Posted by miguelina
    THE MEXICAN FOREIGN SECRETARY, ROSARIO GREEN, SAYS THE
    LATEST EXPULSION OF 12 FOREIGNERS IS NOT AN ACT OF XENOPHOBIA,
    BUT A DEFENSE OF MEXICAN INSTITUTIONS.
    The deportations of illegal aliens from the US are not acts of xenophobia, but a defense of US institutions!
    Yes exactly!

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