Posted on 08/01/2007 2:17:10 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
lived in Puerto Rico a few years during 60’s and the “Independistas,” with financial and arms support from Cuba, planted explosives on transmission towers, tried to fire bomb American business interests even though owned or operated by Puerto Ricans. For example they went on several occasions into a Belks store in Bayamon to plant fire devises in suit pockets on the rack, set to go off after the store closed.
They lived to agitate and encourage anti=Americanism with the hopes of becoming an independent country. At one time they got on the ballot and only received 1% of the vote.
Not too popular among the people - but they did make a lot of noise and problems.
2. In most of the world, including Mexico, wealth IS often the product of corruption and manipulation.
I would say that, judging from attitudes, the Americans match the Mexicans, although the Mexicans are poor and ignorant enough to admit it.
I never characterized it as hostility. I said they exhibted an anti-American attitude and they do. They do every time I am there. If you’ve never seen it perhaps you need to visit Mexico more. Or, you can continue beleiving it doesn’t exist, though that won’t change the fact that it does.
Ditto in Denver
I was in a Walmart and the dressing room was so dirty I didn’t want to undress far enough to try on a pair of jeans. And I’m not squeamish. Last time I willingly went into a Walmart.
Lemmee guess. They just got that way, suddenly after Katrina?......I'm in Ft. Walton Beach, FL. Just up the beach a ways.......
Not really - Wal-Marts here have never been quite clean. Target, on the other hand, maintains spotless stores.
I try to give Sears my business whenever I can, especially for tools. However, they did botch my emergency water heater install. The guy they used never contacted me after I, and the store, left numerous messages. The store gave us this big hassle when we canceled the sale. We ended up going with HD and the water heater was replaced the next day.
I would be complaining to to Bentonville. If I were in Bentonville, I'd be looking for a new set of store managers and district manager. There is no excuse for dirty stores. None.......
Of course the Tzootzils and Tzeltals have problems with the Mexican government. Ditto the Tzoques to a lesser extent. They had problems with the Spanish government as well. Those problems stem from land ownership and property rights, and the Indians have been screwed by the Mexicans since the Mexicans stole Chiapas from Guatemala in the early 19th century, shortly after their revolution. The Indians have not helped themselves by declining to learn Spanish during their 500 plus years of Spanish domination. That said, Subcomandante Marcos is a Marxist who has very skillfully used the Indians’ grievances to further the Marxist agenda. If you think the Indians would be better off, or in charge, if Marcos prevails, you are smoking whacky weed. The Zapatistas’ plan to overthrow the Mexican government that the meztizos won’t take on would result in the end of any private property rights in Mexico, as opposed to the limited private property rights as well as the capitalism that exist in Mexico now. Think Cuba. Think Shining Path in Peru. Think dead Indians.
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