A PREVIEW OF MY COLUMN ON AN INTERVIEW WITH MEXICO'S FELIPE CALDERON
Here's a preview of my Sunday column on my interview last week with Mexico's official winner of the July 2 election, Felipe Calderon. Asked about how he would handle Cuba and Venezuela, he said, “Obviously, we will defend human rights anywhere in the world, including in the United States....This must be done without affecting (the principle) that there must be a new constructive relation of cooperation with all countries. I can have a specific opinion of Fidel Castro, for instance, but this should not get in the way of a constructive relationship that must be established between Mexico and Cuba for the benefit of citizens of both countries.”
posted by Andres Oppenheimer at 4:16 PM
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Boy do I love when politicians say and do not say whay they think. It brings to mind a famous comment by Carlos Andres Perez when asked by a journalist about a certain issue; "Ni lo uno ni lo otro sino todo lo contrario"( Neither this nor the other but indeed the opposite).
The question should have been though; What is Castro going to do with Calderon?
Mexico has far bigger fish to fry and I do not think he will have much time left to pay attention to a minute and unimportant country such as Cuba.
Friend Mosquetón, It wasn't Carlos Andrés Pérez who made the comment, it was Presidente Luis Echeverría Alvarez. I was there when he said it. And to think that Mexico was governed by him for 6 eternal years.... and survived. Thank God for an electoral system like the IFE (Instituto Federal Electoral)!
I know Calderon's cousin. The guy's a Marxist. I would not be surprised if Calderon turned out a little bit on the left side. Makes it weird when I see real leftists militantly side with AMLO. Calderon's gonna give the US plenty of trouble so there's no reason for them not to line up behind him.
One additional comment, as a country with a recently elected president, Mr.Felipe Calderón, I hope and expect that my President WILL have the time, humanity and decency to pay attention, as you say, to the Cuban people; they have lived without liberty too long, not to mention the absolute poverty they have had to endure. I cry to think what if my children would have had to grow under such conditions, if we would have been Cuban instead of Mexican citizens? Raul in power after Fidel, adding insult to injury?
Ron and Paco: I apologize for the wrong quote; appreciate the correction and point taken.
Anonymous: Do not be afraid of Marxism; it is only an ideology. Be afraid of trostkism and stalinism; those are indeed insedious methodologies. I certainly hope that Calderon ends up a little on the left. With the tight results of the Mexican tally it would be suicide for him to either stay in the center or move to the right. It would not be in our best interest either because the last thing we need is an unseccesful government in Mexico. By the way, I agree with your comment that Calderon is going to give us a hard time and that is fine with me. In NASCAR that is called "rubbing" and it is part of the race. I believe "rubbing" is fair game on international relations as well.
Ron: I have my doubts about the bleak image you paint of Cuba. The fact is that Cubans in and outside the island are not fighting to change things there. Maybe they are contempt with what they have. I do agree with you though, when you say that Mexico should be open to good relations with every country in the Americas.
We ought to be precise about what we mean when we say left, and attending the left's needs. If what we mean by that are taking away people's freedom, empowering crony bureaucrats and setting up vast soup kitchens to create a big permanent underclass, then that should be ignored because the majority of Mexicans explicitly reject that. But if we mean building infrastructure, building roads, building schools, getting some kind of pension in for Mexico's old people, then that should be done, it's badly needed in Mexico. Still, there is the question of cost, financing all that through the money-printing press is a been-there-done-that disaster that Mexicans just plain don't want. In fact, they explicitly don't want it! So what to do? If leftists had their way, there would be no oil development, no partnerships with foreign firms for their excellent technology, no drilling where oodles of cash could be made. Instead, workers would remain on the docks of Tabasco state and elsewhere, getting paid for standing around doing nothing as union bosses fatten. Once again, if that's what we mean by left, it's a disaster and based on the total percentage of votes counted, the average Mexican rejects it.
Based on what i know of Calderon's cousin and Calderon's public statements, I think he's going to go the big investment pool route, setting up microcredit lending facilities to the impoverished in the south, and bullying the US into giving it a big investment fund for a marshall plan of its own. If it works, good, it will be money well spent. If it works about like the average world bank project works, it will be money badly spent and just another example of "neoliberalism" that is always a failure. It makes me gag that world bank projects are called 'neoliberalism' when in reality, they are just extranational big government creating a mess as it always does. Calderon should focus on giving the states more power, as happened in Nuevo Leon, which got more PAN votes this time than it did in 2000. The more he decentralizes, the more he makes the states pay their own way, the more jobs they create and the more those voters are likely to vote for PAN in the end. Giving people the opportunity to earn their own money and make their own decisions with it seems to work well everywhere it's tried.
This is funny... Barney Sings To AMLO, tells him to give it up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWbJnB2LlF4
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