Our local Communists love the Pancho Villa statue! Here are members of Revolutionary Communist Party in 2004.
He was also the armed invader of Col,NM back about 1916!
Just ask Gen Pershing........
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This measure could be imposed today in modern-day America (or any other country).
And believe me: The beef you got would, indeed, be worth 7 cents / lb. The milk would have the quality you would expect of milk costing 5 cents / quart. And the bread would taste just like 4-cent-a-loaf bread!
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And his co-ethnic spiritual descendants like Kevin De Leon, Xavier Becerra and Ricardo Lara in California along with the Ocasio-Cortez nutcase in Nueva York spout the same nonsense which leads to the same result.
Just what America needs: Mexican Socialism.
Because it worked so well in Central and South America.
I saw the movie “Pancho Villa” starring Wallace Beery. I loved the scene where Pancho Villa tried to pay the printers who printed the new money with the worthless currency that they had just printed.
This is a bit unfair.
Recall that Villa was running a revolution, in a state of chaos, not a functioning economy.
Every revolutionary government ever has done similar things, often much worse. The Continental Congress and the Confederate government both issues worthless paper money, requisitioned supplies without payment, etc.
And plenty of established governments in wartime also.
He understood economics as well as any socialist/democrat. You just set a price and the market supplies the product. Isn’t that how it works?
Everyone remembers the raid on Columbus like it just happened out of the blue. Nobody remembers that a few months before, Pancho had Carranza’s forces backed into a very small 180 degree perimeter, with their backs to the US border. They were facing certain defeat by Pancho.
Woodrow Wilson allowed 5000 Mexican troops and 6 artillery pieces to cross into the USA at Eagle Pass and Laredo and take trains through El Paso and New Mexico into Arizona. The trains stopped in Douglas a few hundred yards from the border.
The Mexican army formed up in Douglas Arizona and walked across the border INTO Carranza’s perimeter with food, ammo, water, artillery, and water.
Pancho was defeated and had to withdraw.
In his mind, if the Mexican army could maneuver on US soil to his disadvantage, then he was just as free to do the same. So he launched the raid on Columbus.
It’s actually pretty sound reasoning.