Posted on 12/31/2009 12:43:08 PM PST by kingattax
Forget 2012. As far as many Mexicans are concerned, the ancient Mayas were being generous: the sky's actually going to fall next year.
Why? Because it's 2010, Mexico's bicentennial, and Mexican history has an eerie way of repeating itself. Mexico's 1910 centennial, after all, saw the start of the bloody, decade-long Mexican Revolution, which killed more than a million people. And that cataclysm was precisely a century after the start of Mexico's bloody, decade-long War of Independence in 1810.
You get the picture. As a result, there's been no shortage of talk lately about possible unrest, especially in the form of armed rebel groups, erupting south of the border in 2010.
But is there really a basis for concern? None as apparent as the popular grievances that existed in 1809 or 1909. But this is still Mexico; and while Spanish colonizers no longer oppress the country, and dictators like Porfirio Diaz aren't brutalizing campesinos, the country nonetheless is reeling from the worst criminal violence in its history and one of its hardest economic slumps.
"We are very near a social crisis," JosÉ Narro, the director of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City, said recently. "The conditions are there."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Keep Pancho Villa II in Mexico.
Would serve the politicians and the military right if the ‘common man’ in Mexico rebelled. Money seems to rise only to the top ... keeping all others down.
Greed, graft and corruption are rife down there.
We should have kept the whole thing when we had the chance.
“”We are very near a social crisis,” JosÉ Narro, the director of the National Autonomous University of Mexico”
No, Senor Narro, Mexico is already past being in ‘crisis’ and you’re dragging us down with you.
They mean “centenary.”
noun: centenary
adjective: centennial
Could it be the resurrection of 1954’s Operation Wetback, when about one million illegal immigrants from Texas, New Mexico, California and Arizona were deported back to Mexico by the Eisenhower administration?
So that whole Mayan 2012 thing doesn’t apply to the world - just Mexico?
Relief...
Unlike greed,graft and corruption free zone of Washington DC and New York City?
I mean there is no Greed, Graft,and Corruption in the USA right?
ExxonMobil,Porkulous,and ACORN Democrat Party ring a bell?
No drug related violence here?
Jeffersonian Paradise.
What no one ever comments on is that Mexico is such a seething stinkhole of corruption that millions of it’s citizens can’t even wait for normal immigration procedures, but instead face death crossing burning deserts to work as criminals in another country, rather than live there. In fact, the most horrifying thing imaginable to them would be to be returned to their own country.
Now let’s see, if Democrats want illegals for their votes and to destroy the economy in order to push a socialist agenda, then is it possible that they support keeping Mexico a hellhole, so that the flow of illegals is always massive? Naw - that would be a conspiracy, and everyone knows that conspiracies don’t exist.
I agree. But I was commenting on the article, which was about Mexico.
Mexico has it as bad if not worse than the US ... that may be one contributing factor to so many illegals coming across the border.
If Mexicans love their country so much (and they never pass up an opportunity to proclaim just that) you have to wonder why they don’t work to clean up the third-world hellhole that is their homeland. The thing is, they DO love their homeland, and they love the mindset that has made Mexico a third-world hellhole; and like our liberals, once they and their mindset have destroyed their nests, and it gets to be too soiled even for them, they move somewhere else and repeat the process all over again, never accepting the reality that it is THEY all along who are the problem.
Exactly!
So then, where would you prefer to live?
Mexicans take absolutely no responsibility for the condition of their country and show no desire to change it. Mexico is a place of systemic and endemic corruption, a land as far removed from the rule of law as Earth is from Pluto. It’s a place where Mexican politicians steal everything in sight and blame the United States. If Mexicans showed half the energy and passion to fix Mexico that they do breaking into America and loudly proclaiming they’ve a right to do it, then their situation might not be so dire. I’m one American among many who is tired of seeing my country being used by the corrupt Mexican elites as a safety valve for their deficiencies. Close the damn border, seal it. And let Mexicans either fix their country or go down with it.
Noooo, I think you got that backwards - Mayan 2012 does apply to the world, but not to Mexico. 2010 applies only to Mexico, not to the world. I guess Mexico willbe gone before 2012 hits; from what I gather.
It was a joke... :)
Happy New Year!
Yeah the US is so bad ...that’s why people are dying to get IN the country...not out...like Mexico...
Yes and they bring that same attitude when they jump the fence and sneak into this country...even so you ever hear a Mexican bad-mouth Mexico? Never. They save that for America.
I don’t like Mexico or it’s people for obvious reasons. They’re like almost all foreigners who come here. They hate the fact they have to run away from their cesspool countries and jealous of Americans and our success. I don’t think there is any country that has ever fought to create itself as we have nor has ever gone and freed someone else. What galls me most about Mexico and Mexicans is they have NEVER fought alongside us to defend the freedom and prosperity they think they’ve a right to enjoy here.
...’’that may be one contributing factor to so many illegals coming across the border’’. Gee, do you think so?
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