We Never Occupied Mexico: Beck Schools Eva Longoria On Mexican History

We Never Occupied Mexico: Beck Schools Eva Longoria On Mexican History

May 15, 2012

You might have caught actress Eva Longoria‘s recent appearance on Bill Maher’s “Real Time” in which she claimed that Hispanics would not be moved to vote for Mitt Romney simply because he might tap Marco Rubio to be his vice president. The mere thought of it would be, as she put it, “insulting.” After all, she claims that Mexico was “occupied” by the United States.

“And the idiots in the Bill Maher audience ate it up,” Beck said on his Tuesday evening broadcast before launching into one of the most concise rundowns of Mexican history to date. In fact, as a Mexican-American, it seems inconceivable Longoria didn’t know her own history as well as Beck does.

As it turns out, the Spaniards occupied Mexico for some 300 years and even the word Hispanic was one employed by the Romans when they occupied what now is Spain. So, the Spanish language that is spoken across Latin America is a result of Spanish occupation. Likewise, it was Spain that occupied Mexico for hundreds of years.

in 1846 the Mexican-American war began in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas. Mexico considered Texas part of its territory despite the Texas Revolution nearly a decade prior. Mexico never acknowledged Texas’ independence.

Ultimately, the Americans won the war with Mexico but on February 2 ,1848, the two countries signed the Treaty of Guadalupe which stated that U.S. troops would withdraw from Mexico, including Mexico City and take ownership of the Southwestern United States. What’s more, Beck pointed out that the U.S. agreed to 
buy the land from Mexico for $15 million, even though it was won squarely in victory and there was no obligation to do so. Not at any time did the United States occupy nor rule Mexico. The United States did not subject Mexicans to our form of government nor did it leave troops stationed in the country.

Beck continues with the
 real history of Latinos in America, below.


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From the PBS Special, Eva Longoria, Faces of America.
With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

You remember him from the beer summit , it looks like he is now "hooked up" with PBS.

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• About the Program
  
  What made America? What makes us? These two questions are at the heart of the new PBS series Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Harvard scholar turns to the latest tools of genealogy and genetics to explore the family histories of 12 renowned Americans — professor and poet Elizabeth Alexander, chef Mario Batali, comedian Stephen Colbert, novelist Louise Erdrich, journalist Malcolm Gladwell, actress Eva Longoria, musician Yo-Yo Ma, director Mike Nichols, Her Majesty Queen Noor, television host/heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz, actress Meryl Streep, and figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi.
  

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Eva Longoria

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Eva Longoria became a household name when she was cast as Gabrielle Solis on the hit television show Desperate Housewives. A Screen Actors Guild Award winner and Golden Globe nominee, Eva is a champion of charities and organizations supporting Latinos. She has been honored several times with American Latino Media Arts awards and was selected in 2006 as ALMA’s “person of the year.” In interviews, Longoria is open about her Mexican-American heritage and her childhood in South Texas – a sharp contrast to the life of a Hollywood actress.


The Longoria family’s roots in Texas run back to a time before Texas even existed. Lorenzo Longoria, Eva’s first ancestor to arrive in the New World, sailed from Spain in 1603. Through the generations, Lorenzo’s descendants moved north to the modern US-Mexico border.

In 1767, Pedro Longoria, Eva’s 7th great-grandfather, received almost 4000 acres along the Rio Grande in a land grant from the King of Spain. This land stayed in the family for over a century, enduring even the influx of Anglo settlers in the aftermath of the Civil War.

Though Eva celebrates her “Tex-Mex” heritage, she recognizes that a significant part of her bloodline runs back to Europe. The stories within her family tree open up a fascinating and under-studied area of US history, and give a new face to America’s earliest settlers.

Eva's family is an old Spanish land grant family. That means the King of Spain granted the land - Spain was the occupier, right? What a hypocrite.
Eva Longoria | Faces of America | PBS

Well, wouldn't Mexico be better off as PART OF THE USA??? They should be pissed off we didn't occupy Mexico and install our form of Government.

History is written by the winners they say, and imagine the pompous arrogance of people who are starting to rewrite it now, so sure they will win. But why shouldn't they, so many people like those that watch Maher's popular show literally wanting to hear things like this. What's next?

Boundaries to countries are written in blood. Why should the people who helped create the US borders have died in vain.

Eva Longoria has shown before that she is moron and brown supremacist. She got a bull crap master's degree in "Chicano" studies a few years ago. Longoria, other brown supremacists, and illegal defenders twist certain historical details around or they sometimes aren't properly educated. People like that fail to understand that certain areas never belonged to Mexico in the first place. They cannot understand or refuse to understand that the Spanish Empire colonized and occupied various areas that never belonged to Mexico or the Aztecs in the first place. I'm a 16th generation New Mexican. Most of my ancestors were Spanish or Mestizo people who arrived from either Spain or Mexico after Juan de Onate was ordered by Spain to colonize the area that is now New Mexico. Some people here in New Mexico are morons like Eva and they also sometimes claim that the United State occupied Mexico. They fail to understand that colonialism is the reason their ancestors ended up in New Mexico.

It has been well documented that after Mexico's independence from Spain, that some areas(provinces)were heavily ignored and neglected by the Mexican government. Today, you will find some Hispanic families in New Mexico, California, Arizona, and Texas whose roots go back to the Spanish Empire era and some of those people will tell you that they are glad that their home states were annexed. New Mexico is a state with a lot of problems, but overall I'm happy that I'm not living in cesspool like Mexico.

Eva "Moron" Longoria should be grateful that she and her family have resources and opportunities that might not get if they were living in Mexico. Looking at Eva's family history, they have had a lot of privileges for being mestizo Hispanics.

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I simply stopped watching any show/movie she appears on I would not want her to be offended by white money.;);)

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I also don't watch ANYTHING!! she is in. She is just another ungrateful hollywood uneducated rich person.

Glenn Beck is so smart and Eva Longoria is a racist and an idiot with a pretty face and big money invasion supporting backers.

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I also don't watch anything Longoria does. She will never have a huge career or be on the level of someone like Jennifer Lopez. Longoria's mouth will cost her roles at some point in the future. Some Hollywood directors and producers will not want to deal with a gringo basher like Longoria. In Mexico, someone like Longoria wouldn't be too loved. Mexican nationals don't care much for Mestizo Hispanics whose families have been in the United States for a long time. The fact that Longoria's family owned a lot of land would make many poor Mexicans envious. A lot of illegals who come into the States will only associate with fellow illegals. They will not give the time of day to Hispanic/Latinos whose families have been the U.S. for more than two generations. Longoria can defend illegals all day long, but when it comes down to it some of those illegals wouldn't want be friends with her.

I think Glenn Beck is taking a very narrow definition of occupy. At the end of the Mexican-American war the USA controlled most of Mexico's territory including Mexico City.

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I think Glenn Beck is taking a very narrow definition of occupy. At the end of the Mexican-American war the USA controlled most of Mexico's territory including Mexico City.

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"To the victor go the spoils", artclam.

Yes, it was paid for with blood. I wonder what the outcome for the people of Mexico would have been if the US had occupied all of the land that they conquered. The US wouldn't have so many people trying to escape Mexico for a better life here. I am just sayin...

Santa Anna may have won at the Alamo, but the battle of Buena Vista was another story. The full account of the battle is at the link, this is a short excerpt.

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Battle of Buena Vista - Aftermath

His last assault defeated, Santa Anna held a council of war as night and heavy rains descended. Having lost 594 dead, 1,039 wounded, 1,800 missing, and 294 captured, he elected to retreat south. Taylor, whose position remained precarious, lost 267 dead, 456 wounded, and 23 missing. The final major battle in northeastern Mexico, the stunning American victory carried Taylor to the presidency the following year. On a similar note, the military reputation won by Davis aided him in becoming the future president of the Confederacy during the Civil War. Returning to Mexico City, Santa Anna led a campaign against Scott in which he was roundly defeated.

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Battle of Buena Vista - Mexican-American War Battle of Buena Vista

ADDED TO ALIPAC HOMEPAGE News with amended title ..

http://www.alipac.us/content/we-neve...n-history-589/

This is an interesting article about the Longoria conquistadors and their descendants in Northern Mexico and South Texas.

The Longoria-Chapa dynasty in South Texas and Northern Mexico

Today: Part1 - The Longoria-Chapa dynasty in South Texas and Northern Mexico

January 30, 2010 8:56 PM
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Dr. Lino García Jr.

When Lorenzo Suárez de Longoria and his uncle, Pedro Suárez de Longoria, left Asturias, Spain, in 1603 headed for "La Nueva España" to "hacer las Américas," they could not have imagined how much activity the decision would produce. Their journey eventually yielded both a cattle and land dynasty, and initiated a fascinating history of events extending to the colonization of South Texas and Northern México.

These two Spaniards have possible connections to the nobility of Spain, and are from two villages still in existence, La Pontiga (from puente, or bridge) and Longoria (from longo, from the Latin for "long" and "orilla" or edge, meaning "long edge of a river," we get the surname Longoria).

Both villages are huddled in the mountains of northern Spain, where descendants of the Longoria family have existed since the Middle Ages. Pedro had received the commission as "Oidor" (Supreme Court Justice) from the King of Spain, but lost it after a few years.

They landed first in Veracruz, but soon ventured west into Monterrey. It was there the Longoria dynasty entered the political scene, making contacts in high places and joining the leading families of Monterrey, Nuevo León. It is known that Asturias, the birth place of the first Longorias, was first inhabited by Celtic, Visigoth and Roman tribes during the Middle Ages. This explains the very fair complexion and clear blue eyes of most Longoria descendants presently living in South Texas and Northern México.

Lorenzo and his common law wife, Ana Salazar, soon had a son, Lorenzo Suárez de Longoria II, who married Antonia Rodríguez, great- great- granddaughter of Don Diego de Montemayor, the founder, along with 15 other families, of Monterrey, Nuevo León, in 1598, thus joining, via matrimony, two of the most prominent families of Northern México and South Texas.

This union of Lorenzo II and Antonia Rodríguez produced a number of children, one of whom was Pedro Longoria Rodríguez, whose wife, Agustina García de Zaldívar, was a direct descendant of Capt. Vicente Zaldívar, Chief of Arms and a relative of Juan de Oñate, conqueror of New Mexico in 1598.

All were prominent individuals, conquerors and colonizers of the time, and it is no wonder that, over the years, the Longorias were involved in many of the adventures recorded in the history of Northern México and South Texas.
The Longoria-Chapa dynasty in South Texas and Northern Mexico | south, chapa, texas - Local - Brownsville Herald



The Longoria-Chapa dynasty in South Texas and Northern Mexico
Today: Part 2 – The Union of the Longorias and the Chapas

January 31, 2010 9:32 PM

The union of Pedro Longoria Rodríguez and Agustina produced a son, Capt. Diego Longoria Valdés de Zaldívar, who was granted the authority, along with other colonizers, to settle Cerralvo, a town in Nuevo León, and Camargo in the state of Tamaulipas.

Diego Longoria soon married Doña María Clara Chapa, great-granddaughter of Juan Bautista Chapa (Schiapapría), a native of Albisola, Genoa, Italy. This same Juan Bautista Chapa traveled with Capt. Alonso de León in his excursions throughout Texas in 1686, and is the author, along with Alonso de León and Fernando Sánchez de Zamora, of the chronicle "Historia de Nuevo León — con noticias sobre Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Texas y Nuevo México" making them among the first Hispanics to chronicle the land and fauna of Texas, and depositing horses, cattle and goats along each body of water along the way.

Capt. Diego Longoria Valdés de Zaldívar and María Clara Chapa’s matrimony produced many children, three of whom became the first land and cattle barons of South Texas at the beginning of the 18th Century: Don José Matías Longoria Chapa, Don Vicente, and Don Pedro Longoria Chapa, who in 1767 received "porciones" (portions of land grants) 93, 94, and 95 from King Carlos III of Spain.

These huge land grants were given to individuals who proved to be pure Spanish, who had proven loyalty to the Spanish Crown, and who were determined to work the land and procreate loyal subjects of the King. These petitions for land grants lasted for almost seven years before a decision was made. Thus we know that Capt. Diego Longoria Valdés de Zaldívar did not live long enough to see his three sons become Spanish Grantee families of South Texas and among the first Tejano families on Texas soil.

One of his sons, Don José Matías Longoria Chapa, is considered a pioneer of ranching and cattle drives in South Texas, starting long before any other family established such an institution here.

In 1774, the "13 original families," 12 from Camargo and one from Reynosa (among them, the Longoria Chapa families), decided to venture into other areas in the region and bought more than 2 million acres of land from the heirs of Col. José de Escandón. In this way, these families established 113 ranching sites in what later became Matamoros, Tamaulipas. This area of Northern México, with land extending into South Texas and across from Brownsville, originally was given the name of "Paraje de los Esteros Hermosos" in 1706 by Capt. Juan José de Hinojosa, due to the many "esteros," or swamps, characteristic of the area.

In 1749, Don Matías de los Santos Coy renamed it San Juan de los Esteros Hermosos, establishing a large ranching site that he was forced to abandon due to the huge water flowing from the nearby Río Bravo. However, flooding due to the proximity of the Río Bravo did not prevent the 13 original families to officially establish in 1774 a congregation, which they called San Juan de los Esteros Hermosos.

The chief authority to establish this congregation of 13 original families was bestowed on Capt. Ignacio Anastacio de Ayala, who bought 10.5 ranching sites in the area.

Other members of the 13 original families, who were the founding families of present day Matamoros and parts of South Texas, included:

* Don Miguel Chapa, Rancho Chapeño.
* Don Santiago Longoria, Rancho Longoreño.

* Capt. José Antonio de la Garza Falcón, Rancho Falcoñeno.
* Don José Antonio de la Garza, Rancho Tahuachal.
* Don Luis Antonio García, Rancho del Potrero.
* Don Ramón Longoria, Rancho Barranquillas y Capote.
* Don José de Hinojosa, Rancho Palma.
* Don Juan Solís, Rancho Soliceño.
* Don Salvador Vela, Rancho de Santo Domingo de las Animas.
* Don Juan José Cisneros, Rancho La Canasta.
* Don Juan N. Cisneros Villarreal, Rancho Caja Pinta.
* Don José Antonio Cavazos, Rancho de Santo Domingo de las Animas.

As a proud descendant of the Longoria Chapa family, I still remember my visits to Rancho Longoreño, now called Ejido Longoreño, in the 1940s, where my sister and I spent quality time with our grandparents, who were related to the families on these ranching sites. The land stretched endlessly in those days, abundantly populated with horses and cattle, and almost everything was produced for daily use.

Brownsville native Dr. Lino García Jr. is Professor Emeritus of Spanish Literature at the University of Texas-Pan American.
The Longoria-Chapa dynasty in South Texas and Northern Mexico | south, chapa, texas - Local - Brownsville Herald




Chapa, Juan Bautista
Who? Juan Bautista Schiapapria (Chapa), 1631-1695
What? Juan Bautista Schiapapra (Chapa) was born in the Villa de Albisola, on the banks of Genoa, Italy the son of Bartolom Schiapapra and Bastetina Badi. He arrived in Monterrey, Nuevo Len during the last weeks in 1650 where he became involved in politics, making friends in high places. He married Doa Beatriz Trevio de Olivares, a wealthy and beautiful lady of distinction.

In 1686 he accompanied Captain Alonso de Len in several excursions into Texas territory, becoming one of the earliest explorer, historian, and conqueror of Texas. He wrote a book, along with Captain de Len and Fernando Snchez: Historia de Nuevo Len Con Noticias Sobre Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Texas y Nuevo Mxico that details the adventures, the fauna, and flora of Texas.

Decades later his great granddaughter Maria Clara Chapa married Captain Diego Longoria Valds de Zaldvar, a descendant of Diego de Montemayor, founder of Monterrey, Nuevo Len. This union produced several sons and daughters: don Jos Matas Longoria Chapa, Pedro and Vicente. All three received Porciones 93, 94, and 95 in 1767 from King Carlos III of Spain.

Descendants of the Longoria Chapa families that arrived in Texas in 1767, and of Juan Bautista Schiapapra (Chapa) who arrived in Texas in 1686 are: Marcelino, Ramn, Santiago Longoria who formed part of the 13 original families that established 113 ranching sites in what later became Matamoros in 1774 and whose descendants include: Dr. Lino Garca, Professor Emeritus-UTPA; Former State Senator Ral Longoria, Eva Longoria, Mimi Lozano, and many other South Texas and Northern Mexico prominent citizens.
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It looks like Eva Longoria's family were the original conquerers and colonists of Mexico for Spain considered to be the elite of Mexico.