McCain Visits Mexico
6 July 2008
[Allan Wall] @ 1:19 pm

GOP candidate John McCain was down here in Mexico this past week. McCain didn’t visit me, and it’s a pity. I could have pointed out a few things to him. Nor did McCain come to Mexico to visit, sympathize with, and to stir up the Gringo Community in Mexico, as a Mexican politician would do with the Mexican Community in the United States. But McCain is not interested in Gringos in Mexico. The senator was here to campaign.

In today’s globalized context, U.S. presidential campaigns are no longer limited to U.S. territory. They are now international affairs. Presumably, McCain thinks he can pick up Latino votes in the U.S. by visiting Mexico. The candidate may be wrong about that, but that’s what he thought.

One of McCain’s activities here was a visit to the Virgin of Guadalupe Basilica in Mexico City. (I’ve written an article on “The Virgin of Guadalupe and the National Question,â€