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04-06-2008, 11:25 PM #1
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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)
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Source: Voice of America
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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)
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Source: Voice of America
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04-06-2008, 11:40 PM #2
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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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04-06-2008, 11:46 PM #3Originally Posted by AE"Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the same results is the definition of insanity. " Albert Einstein.
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04-07-2008, 09:05 PM #4
Mexico is NOT about COMMON sense and DECENCY because she is the world's BIGGEST MENDACITY!
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04-07-2008, 09:30 PM #5THE MEXICAN FOREIGN SECRETARY, ROSARIO GREEN, SAYS THE
LATEST EXPULSION OF 12 FOREIGNERS IS NOT AN ACT OF XENOPHOBIA,
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04-08-2008, 12:17 AM #6
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