Posted on 01/05/2006 10:37:37 AM PST by Sleeping Beauty
Here's a sad but safe new year's prediction: U.S. relations with Latin America, which plunged to their lowest point in decades in 2005, will get still worse in 2006.
The year ended with a string of reverses. In a regional summit in Mar del Plata, Argentina, in November, President Bush was jeered by demonstrators and taunted by Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, who aspires to make Latin America anti-American and anti-democratic.
Then came the Chavez-backed victory in Bolivia of Evo Morales, a former llama herder and coca farmer who describes himself as Washington's "nightmare."
Morales's victory sets the stage for a year in which leftist populists will be competing for power in elections across the region, including in Peru, Nicaragua and Mexico.
By the end of this year a Morales imitator could be president of Peru, Daniel Ortega and his Sandinista movement could once again control Nicaragua, and Mexico could be led by Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a socialist who has never visited the United States.
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We import far more oil from Mexico (our newly communist-leaning neighbor) than we do Saudi Arabia. Things are getting bad along the border. What do you think the U.S. should do, if anything?
AM I the only one thats getting sick and tired of dealing with the aftermath of these countries that cannot govern themselves?
Of course, Mexico wouldn't do it because they need the billions that illegal aliens send back to their home country.
They will still need to sell their oil at world market prices.
I don't see how oil becomes a weapon for them, though a Communist Mexico would certainly pose a lot of challenges for us.
Rent out the movie "Red Dawn".
that would really really su.k for me personally, because i have my life savings tide up in projects down south...
so
While I realize there are many, many good and hard-working people in nations like Mexico, it worries me to a large degree that we seem to be importing their population. It seems inevitable that we will import their problems as well.
"It looks more and more like Mexico is headed the way of the rest of Latin America -- to the extreme left. In its June presidential election, Mexico may go socialist, with communist overtones."
Then we'll have no excuse to no built the tallest wall on the planet along that border and to put armed guards all along it. This could end up being a positive development. It might finally wake up Bush and the Republicans to the fact that Mexico is a hostile nation and that we must seal the border once and for all. If this socialist dope takes over there, it will be all the more imperative to build that wall ASAP because when Mexico's economy gets even more wrecked by Marxism, the flow across the border from Mexico will turn into a tidal wave.
Is the drug cartel run by communists? That's who now runs most of Mexico.
What Happens If Mexico Goes Communist?
They might as well, they can't seem to do anything else right.
They are just going to join the movement of Latin America, and the Socialist Democrats here in the USA. Nothing really different. Same agendas. Take money from one group and give it to their voting block. They know there are more that love to sit on their asses and get free stuff, than people who actually work their asses off and EARN the money. So, they all buy their votes. The entire bunch's goal is a TOTAL SOCIALISTIC GOVERNMENT OF THE WORLD. And, as long as the population of dead beats and sit-on-their-asses grows larger and larger, the socialist will win.
If they go commie we had better have the wall in place.
Would anyone notice?
Big Stick diplomacy.
if the Pres and 'that congress of ours' has the 'yarbles'
Build a walll at the very least. Mexico needs SERIOUS reform but I don't see anything even remotely in the horizon to make it happen.
A communist Mexico might "wake up" those who have forgotten the evils of communism.
Mexico is one of the few countries where Communism would be an improvement. At least that way they would shoot their own citizens who tried to escape to the free world, sparing us the trouble.
Communists of the past have been pretty good about building walls to keep their subjects inside. Maybe Mexico will build our border wall for us ... and shoot people who try to escape Mexico.
we could melt down Ted Kennedy's Blubber for fuel!
So long as our border is an open sieve there will be no communist revolution in Mexico. The comparatively rich, capitalist North is a better alternative for the Latino oppressed.
Mexico has always been communist to some considerable degree from back before the October, 1917 Revolution in Russia.
Mexico still has private farms but they have confiscated some estates in the past. Ever buy gasoline in Mexico? Bet you filled up with Pemex, the government's monopoly. Ever notice how El Salvador's FMLN terrorist leadership were lovingly embraced in Mexico. Over the decades the hammer and cicle was much in evidence during the ruling "Revolutionary Party's" large rallies.
IF they do, you see a hell of a lot of reshoring of those factories they couldn't wait to move there... once the government decides they are theirs.
what like Cuba did....no dice.
these communist countries needs and enema by us.
Mexico has been communist in all but open declaration for 70 years.
In the 70s I was stuck in La Paz coming back from marlin fishing at the cape and couldn't get a flight back because the PRI was having their national convention there and had comandeered all flights.
The 2 days I was stuck there their delegates were running all over town waving their red flags and Mao's little red book and shouting communist slogans.
Its not a matter of IF its a matter of WHEN....why do you think Bush is leaving the borders unprotected????
I think you're right. If Mexico moves politically, it will be by way of communism. The wealthy don't want to deal with the poor, and that's why we have a problem with illegals: they get a better chance here than at home.
The cartels have only to take the wealthy by force and help themselves to the wealth. Actually, the government has very often done that by way of taking wealthy landowners' holdings...sort of like or eminent domain.
Greed is so ugly.
If Mexico goes comunist then they will build their own wall and save us the time, trouble and expense. It's what communists societies are really good at (i.e. Russia, East Germany and China).
"What do you think the U.S. should do, if anything?"
Invade.
Regime change.
Exactly.
Come on people, everything below our southern border, with one or two notable exceptions is communist.
borders are unprotected to provide free labor,
Do you really still think the Russians are gonna nuke us? The nukes used in the movie were Russian, and the soviets led the proxy armies.
I really don't see the Cubans leading an assault with Latin American armies.
That being said, I still watch the movie when it comes on.
The same thing that happened in 1848.
So9
Mexico has some beautiful and relatively cheap beachfront property. I've been tempted to invest in the past, but I remember my mom's words: "you'd be only an election away from losing it all."
Good luck, you're going to need it.
-ccm
The Reagan Administration was well aware of the problems developing in Latin America, as I recall.
Does anyone else want to get Ollie to finish that mission?
Chuckling. I think that wall in China predates Mao by a few years.
Wha??? I don't recall any use of nukes in Red Dawn.
-ccm
sw
If Mexico goes communist? They would just be another Kalifornia.
Nope, we should shut down our borders and let them get a taste of socialism. I think they need a heavy dose of misery before they can figure out that a small government and a free market are their only hope.
When whathisname was shot down and joined the kids in the mountains, he told of the nukes used on the population centers, IIRC.
I've always maintained the US was worried Mexico would go Communist. It's one of the primary reasons we have never closed off the border. As long as the would revolutionaries were allowed to leave they would not stay to fight.
One thing is for sure. If Mexico was a Communist state. There would be no debate about a Israel type wall.
What really happens? Mexico gets poorer. They've already nationalized the petroleum industry, so what's left to steal?
touche
The Chinese will be the masterminds behind the 2009 version of Red Dawn. With troops from Mexico and the huge marxist bloc of Brazil, Venezuela, Columbia and the other smaller countries. Bolivia just signed up. More will follow, like an avalanche.
That may be our only hope. If we think there are immigration problems now, wait till socialism brings on even more massive unemployment. It's going to a nightmare.
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