TEN REASONS WHY MEXICO IS LIKELY TO REMAIN STABLE
Contrary to forecasts that Mexico's President-elect Felipe Calderón will not be able to rule effectively because of defeated leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador's vow to make the country ungovernable, there are 10 powerful reasons to believe that Calderón is likely to weather the storm. First, while Calderón won the July 2 election by only 234,000 votes, he will have the largest legislative bloc in both houses of Congress. Sure, he will still need votes from other parties to pass major reforms, but he will have significantly greater representation in Congress than outgoing President Vicente Fox. Read the full column here. I'm interested in your comments.
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Any country is only as good as its people. You can implement all the correct policies you want to and have backing from all sectors of the government, but if you don't have a significant amount of honest, hard working, high integrity people, that society will fail. You Latin Americans always want to blame the USA/"Anglos" for everything wrong in Latin America. Try looking in the mirror first.
Paul Thorsen
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Roberto, e-mail me and we can discuss the issue further.
For your information, no country ever got rich off agrciculture. It's producing high technology, big money items like airplanes and automobiles that makes countries rich. The USA didn't become rich by producing coffee.
The USA is reluctant to invest in Latin America because as soon as we get the business up and running, you Latios then steal the corporation under the euphemism of "nationalization". The historic legacy of the Spanish people is nothing but theft. Theft of gold is what brought you people to the Americas. It's what brings you people to the USA: ripping off the USA/Anglos.
http://www.uscubacommission.org/history3.html
March 3, 1959 - The Cuban government nationalizes the Cuban Telephone Company, an affiliate of ITT, and immediately reduces telephone rates.
January 1960 - Cuba expropriates 70,000 acres of property owned by U.S. sugar companies which includes 35,000 acres of pasture and forest land owned by United Fruit, (now United Brands and Chiquita Brands). United Brands owns an additional 235,000 acres of land in Cuba and several hundred thousand acres in Guatemala. In 1954 the government of Guatemala threatened to expropriate all of United Fruit's land holdings in that country.
June 6, 1960 - Cuba requests the two US oil refineries, Texaco and Esso, and one British refinery, Shell, to process a shipment of Russian crude oil. The companies refuse and on June 28 Cuba orders the refineries nationalized.
July 5, 1960 - Cuba orders the nationalization of all US businesses and commercial properties in Cuba.
August 6, 1960 - Cuba nationalizes all U.S. owned industrial and agrarian enterprises.
September 17, 1960 - Cuba nationalizes all US banks including First National City Bank of New York, First National Bank of Boston, and Chase Manhattan Bank.
October 24, 1960 - In response to the U.S. declaration on October 19 that it will impose an embargo, Cuba announces that it will nationalizes all remaining U.S. property on the island.
Paul Thorsen
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Mr. Oppenheimer, it's great Felipe Calderon had officialy been proclamed president of Mexico. But the most important fact to consider is that for the left, democracy is democracy only when they win elecions. And Lopez Obrador was not the exception to this.
The case of Lopez Obrador showed that the instauration of a second-round system for the election of the president must be taken into consideration; the same happens with the idea of replacing the presidential system with a parliamentary one.
What happen in Mexico is nothing new. It is the same scam that happens every four years. Corruption, deshonesty and lack of morals among everybody, I mean: government, citizens. private industries, bussinesses, banks. Just everybody. Mexico is a terrible country but beautiful. I am a shame to be mexican.
Hey anonymous, it isn't just Mexico, it's all of Spanish speaking Latin America: "Corruption, dishonesty and lack of morals among everybody, I mean: government, citizens. private industries, bussinesses, banks. Just everybody."
My theory as to why that is is that Spain dumped its criminals and other derelicts onto their colonies in the Americas. I pity any shy, quiet, honest, studious kid who has to grow up in Spanish speaking Latin America. Such a person would NOT be accepted in macho Latin America.
Paul Thorsen
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Paul Thorsen, you're one racist and utterly confused man, for I could say exactly the same thing about the Lib-Dems of your country, or Labour in Britain, or Zapatero's PSOE in Spain...
Besides what sort of people you think end up in North America's shores? The intellectual classes from Britain and France? Read you history mate, before making an ass of yourself.
Andres you hit the nail on the head. Personally, as I tell my Mexican friends, I don't believe AMLO has much room for complaint. He knows the rules of engagement in Mexican politics and certainly pulled his own share of dirty tricks within his own sphere of influence. Nor, did he arrive at his position as Mayor of Mexico City by being pure as the driven snow. IMHO it's a wash.
His support appears to be primarily in the D.F. Many Mexicans with whom I talk come from the North and other states. These are working people whose support went primarily to PAN not PRD with little or no support for PRI. One reason for a lack of better support for PRD outside Mexico City is that many of these people have an abiding dislike for chilangos. Had PRD picked a candidate from another area they might have won.
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Lili, lease post your e-mail for further debate via e-mail. This forum is to discuss what Andres writes about.
Yes, you Spanish speaking Latin Americans come to steal the USA, you don't come to join the USA as all other immigrants do. Case in point:
1) you people refuse to speak English
2) you people boo US international sports teams
3) you people can't bear to give your kids American mames. My parents didn't give me a name like Lars or Per. They didn't insist I learn Norwegian and then demand I use it at all times and do my best to force the Norwegian language on the USA. Even though we were the first Europeans in the Americas by hundreds of years. You Hispanicks don't come here and create your own jobs or your own societies as my ancestors did. You force your way into already estblished societies and steal jobs created by Asians and Whites. The historical legacy of the Hispanick race of people is nothing but theft.
from "From Columbus to Castro", by Eric Williams, copyright 1970.
page 24
It was gold which determined the location of Spanish settlements, which led to their concentration on the Greater Antilles, except those which had strategic significance for the protection of trade routes.
Ah, Mr. Thorsen, I don't want to get into it with you but somehow I believe neither Eric Sevareid or Harold Stassen who were both of Norwegian descent would share your viewpoints.
There are ten - or more - reasons why Mexico will remain stable. I can name one reason why it will not. Organized crime is eating away at Mexico from the inside. Neither presidential candidate brought it up during his campaign. Mexican papers rarly publish news about the Mexican drug trade. No one seems to blame the US for excessive - an increasing - demand. And the role Mexican org. crime plays in the cocaine trade in Latin America is destroying Central American nations too. I think it would behoove Mr. Oppenheimer and his supporters to acknowledge that Mexico has a serious security problem, one, and, two, start a serious dialogue about how Calderon will deal with it.
Although I am Argentine, I hoper Mexico can finally find the right way to prosperity. I know that the Aztec nation still has to face with lots of problems, but the solution to them does not rely on more State injerence.
And let's see if the false democratic Lopez Obrador understands what democracy means.
To Mr. Thorensen,
The greatness in freedom of speech is that even people like you get a chance to speak their piece. Unfortunately, your piece is small, biased and embarrasing.
It's good you've read one book. You should try reading quite a few more. And, you also must learn to read between the lines. But in order to do this you first have to acquire a certain amount of culture.
I don't include my email as I have no interest to correspond with you. I wish you the best.
Every in Mexico and in Latin America knew that Mr Calderon was
the US embassy candidate.
That is why he won.
Not only that.
Mr Calderon won only with less
than 1 % of the votes.
When Lopez Obrador asked for
a recounting of the votes..Mr Calderon refused.
In Latin America that is a classic
example of the perpetrator of the
electoral fraud.
If Mr Calderon refused to recount
the votes...then,he hides something.
Calderon is as corrupt as any
politician.
It makes me laugh how many
"gringo experts in Latin American
polititics" when they do not even
speak spanish nor live in Latin America.They are so clueless in
Latin American affairs.
Just wait 5 years and you will
find a "much hated and highly corrupted" Mr Calderon.
Just wait and see.
Calderon won't solve the problems of Mexico.
The root of corruption is not
solved with miracles coming from
one single man.
The corruption mountain that happens in Mexico has been built
since they separated from Spain.
I find silly and pollyana thinking
Calderon is going to improve
Mexico's conditions.
That is something only americans
believe on.
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