From the New Media Journal.us
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What I Learned About Mexico, in Mexico
World Rene Guerra
May 13, 2006


The other day I received an email from someone whose identified himself as Footsoldier-Aztlán, and who in a subsequent email confided being a former Marine, contesting an article I recently wrote about how phony Cinco de Mayo is; he contemptuously asked me if I had been taught that in El Salvador, where I was born.



(Aztlanistas are Chicano irredentists who seek to re-populate with Mexicans a vast region of the United States, secede it, some through ballots other through bullets, under the name of Aztlán, and then annex it to Mexico; Aztlán would encompass California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, Wyoming and Utah. Prominent Chicano California Democrat politicians, such as Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, militated in MEChA, which stands for Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, the epitome of all Aztlanista organizations; the two never repudiated it, and support illegal immigration.)



I answered Footsoldier-Aztlán that I learned it in Mexico, where I lived for two years when an American electronics firm sent me there to help upgrade the engineering capabilities of its local plant in Mexico City, becoming familiar with, among other things, Mexico’s civic festivities and history.



And I told him that I had learned much more in Mexico.



I told him I learned that the problem of illegal immigration stems mostly from the fact that Mexico has conveniently decided to use the U.S. as its dump for those Mexicans it rejects as -in the words of a cynical Mexican politician- "social refuse", and then uses them not only to generate national revenue from remittances, but also to attempt to cause menacing disruptions in the American fabric. (Mexican president Vicente Fox has publicly boasted “...I am the President of 100 million Mexicans in Mexico and 20 millions Mexicans in the U.S.”. Then Mexico uses LULAC, La Raza, MEChA, the Mexica Movement and other racist and irredentist entities operating within the Chicano community to in effect control those of Mexican descent in the U.S.)



I learned as well that Mexico is potentially rich for it has vast resources in the form of petroleum, natural gas, coal, iron ore, silver, copper and other minerals, as well as vast arable lands in the center and south of the country, plus a climate that could allow to plant and harvest multiple crops per year, it has sea ports on the Pacific and the Atlantic, it has a massive population that –if educated and skilled- could sustain a thriving internal market for durable and non-durable goods...and it is a next-door neighbor to the U.S., a most technologically advanced society and the most powerful economy in the world, from which Mexico could have absorbed since decades ago, by osmosis, capillarity or simple emulation, the many U.S. advancements as, wisely, Canada has.



I furthermore learned that the main problem of Mexico is that it wasted 71 years under the boot of the infamous PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institucional) flirting with socialistoid policies, in part to blackmail the U.S. during the Cold War with the threat of supporting the Soviet Union if not left alone looting the country, and in part to co-opt its own arch-corrupt Left and cover up for the endemic, pervasive and intense corruption at all levels of government -which is practically an apparatus of systemic venality and peculation gone wild- and society in general -which is practically a kleptocracy where every body cheats, and steals from, everybody. (When paying for something in Mexico, always watch for your change!)



I learned besides, that there is the prevalent surrealistic and bizarre notion in Mexico that if one gets cheated it is only because one deserves it, out of one’s ingenuousness and candidness, virtues that the average Mexican considers stupidity and imbecility. As an example of the cynicism of Mexicans regarding honesty in government, they recur to poetic rime when referring to the last year of a presidential term, of which they say:

“Este es el ańo de Hidalgo...pendejo el que deje algo”



“This is the year of Hidalgo...an a@#hole is he who leaves anything behind,” referring to the last chance that public functionaries and employees have to loot the public coffers. Miguel Hidalgo (y Costilla) was one of the founding fathers of Mexico, but Mexicans don’t hesitate to profane his sacred name in cynical lyrics celebrating venality.



Moreover, I learned during my stay in Mexico, that in that climate of rampant systemic and systematic corruption, with its logical destructive consequences on society and the economy, the PRI, along with the Left, systematically promoted and used hatred of America among the populace to distract it from the real causes of the misery that the vast majority of pauper Mexicans live in: socialistoid policies and pervasive, endemic, systemic and systematic corruption.



As a consequence, America was, and still is, the favorite bogeyman and punching bag of the average Mexican. In a nutshell, Mexico is no friend of the U.S.; when given the slightest chance, and if it can get away with it, Mexico is always ready to hurt us.



I additionally learned that, not fearing any significant pressure from its duped masses, the shameful ruling elites in Mexico just keep looting the country, and do practically nothing to incorporate the majority of the population soundly into the economy. Thus, the Mexican ruling elites keep their masses uneducated and unskilled, constituting an annoying burden that can be easily disposed of by dumping them on America.



I lived in Japan for year and a half when a telecommunications company sent me there along with other American engineers at the time when that company was considering partnering with a Japanese counterpart in the early 1980s, and the Japanese -who don't have natural resources at all, except for a very highly skilled, educated, and even cultured, population- used to tell me how they wished it was them and not the Mexicans who lived in Mexico; they used to say, sighing, that with the natural resources Mexico has, and being coterminous with the U.S., they would easily surpass America as the most powerful nation on earth.



I then told Footsoldier-Aztlán that, instead, shamefully, Mexico largely relegates itself to mainly running maquiladoras, exporting hydrocarbons, exploiting tourism, sucking remittances from illegal immigrants in the U.S.…and, particularly, dumping its indigent and unskilled masses on America.



I then turned the tables on Footsoldier-Aztlán, and asked him: “Is that the country that you Aztlán people want to annex a vast part of America to?”



Finally, I said to him: “The First Amendment giving you the right to have any opinion on any matter, even such a zany but dangerous one, I wholly respect such sacred right to the point that I would fight to the death for you to enjoy it...despite that I entirely despise such Aztlanista opinion of yours.”



I got a reply from Footsoldier-Aztlán assuring me that he loves the First Amendment too, but he didn’t retreat an inch; he’s an Aztlán true believer and will use the First Amendment to help undo America.



How many millions more of them will we get from the amnesty-like bill that the Senate is toying with?