Posted on 11/14/2013 7:31:48 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is in Mexico and signed a new trade agreement with Mexico City. Emanuel has company on this trip in former Mayor Richard Daley.
Former Mayor Daley spent 22 years building Chicago's international reputation. In Mexico City Thursday he did his best to stay in the background as he passed the baton to his successor.
When Emanuel joined Mexico City Mayor Miguel Mancera signing the new sister cities agreement, Chicago's mayor was less concerned with ceremony and more with the potential two of the continent's largest metro areas hold for each other.
"We can grow together, create jobs, economic opportunity and build a common future together," he said.
With over 20 million people, La Ciudad de Mexico is the largest city in North America, the average age of its population in the mid-20's. Despite the United States immigration controversy, the vast majority of Mexicans seek opportunity at home.
"It's a country which is experiencing a high growth rate," said Jose Antonio Peral, Mexican Consulate.
Peral says Mexicans who work in their own country are major consumers of American-made products.
"Mexico is the second biggest buyer of U.S. made products after Canada," he said.
Chicago, with the second largest Mexican-American population among U.S. cities, has obvious cultural links to Mexico.
Former mayor Richard M. Daley also was in Mexico City as part of the Global Cities initiative sponsored by JP Morgan Chase.
"It's an initiative to build a global economy for not just the city but for the region or metropolitan areas in America and build relationships throughout the world," he said.
Thursday morning, Mayor Emanuel visited the historic Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe as Chicago's Jewish mayor paid respect in the most Catholic nation in the world.
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The ‘RAT scumbags care more about Mexico than they do this country.
Why should Manny travel all the way to Mexico? I’m sure that any issues could be negotiated in his morning briefings with the city officials which include the Dept. of Corruption.
The ‘RAT scumbags care more about Mexico than they do this country.
Mexico is where most of the marijuana, lots of other drugs, and millions of loyal supporters of the Democratic [sic] party come from.
HA ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!
That is hilarious.
Free trade between Chicago and Mexico. Yes, it passes through the border everyday, in the care of the Sinaloa Cartel (the one Obama/Holder/Napolitano sold all the gus to) — freely flowing cocaine, mary jane, meth, you name it, from Mexico to Chicago.
The Mayor went to collect the tolling for the agreement for safe passage of the goods.
Very funny.
Naked criminal government at its finest.
I was not aware that you could export crime.
It’d be different if it were Americans doing all these drugs that bought the presidency.. but we’re just the distribution hub, and don’t deserve this.
Chicago Way meets Drug Lords Way. Comparing notes.
Maybe they could do a cultural exchange: cartel hit men for gang bangers.
Just like his friend the president, Rahm does not seem to understand or care about the limited roles of certain people at various levels of government.
This seem like something that falls under the umbrella of the state department and the secretary of state and what ever arrangements that they might come to need to be voted on by the senate.
It is like these small city councils that pass resolutions about war or federal law. It is none of their business.
So what they gonna trade? Dead Blacks for Dead Mexicans?
Free Trade Works...just ask any Free Trade Communist... /sarc
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