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To: BfloGuy

Removing the “rights to the subsoil” idea will be quite an achievement, but I’ll believe it when I see it. Foreign investment has never been much of a problem in Mexico, but has been a steady beat on the propaganda drum for over a century. The extraction methods used in Mexico were labor intensive and not too profitable because it was slow. Labor was what was available, and bringing in machinery difficult at best because of the terrain, sh#tty roads, and frequent “revolutions” and other uprisings which went on from the last decade or more of Spanish rule through the ugly, bloody Mexican Civil War (1910-1921); the only period of relative stability was the 30 or so year dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz. Diaz’ motto was “bread or the stick”. :’)


7 posted on 12/11/2013 5:25:33 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: SunkenCiv

so many seem to feel that those of darker hue are less worthy
to enjoy the God given freedom acknowleged in the Declaration.


8 posted on 12/11/2013 9:03:38 PM PST by RitchieAprile
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To: SunkenCiv
Removing the “rights to the subsoil” idea will be quite an achievement, but I’ll believe it when I see it.

Oh, I don't expect to see it at all. But the current reforms are a huge step in the right direction.

10 posted on 12/12/2013 2:18:30 PM PST by BfloGuy ( Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.)
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