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Post by jdredd on Dec 14, 2014 19:30:28 GMT -5
graphics.latimes.com/product-of-mexico-children/"Produce from farms that employ children reaches the United States through long chains of middlemen. A pepper picked by a child can change hands five or six times before reaching an American grocery store or salsa factory. In Teacapan in Sinaloa, The Times watched Alejandrina and dozens of other children fill buckets and sacks with chile peppers. The farm where they were working supplies produce to a distributor in Arizona, which ships it to wholesale markets and other outlets across the U.S. In Guanajuato, children were seen harvesting peppers at a farm whose produce eventually reaches a U.S. distribution hub in Texas. Data on child labor are scarce; many growers and distributors will not talk about it. About 100,000 Mexican children under 14 pick crops for pay, according to estimates in a 2012 study by the World Bank and other international agencies. It is illegal to employ workers younger than 15." I feel sorry for these children put to work by greedy corporations, but I might feel more sympathy if I thought Mexicans were willing to do anything about it. From where I sit, Mexico seems ripe for a revolution, but then you have to have a people willing to stick out their necks, instead of just running away to the USA.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 14, 2014 20:17:41 GMT -5
america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/11/20/the-rebel-spiritdrivingmexicosprotestshasdeeproots.html"More than a hundred years ago, peasants in northern Mexico rose up under the leadership of Francisco “Pancho” Villa. In the south, the legendary Emiliano Zapata led a revolt of indigenous people to reclaim ancestral lands. It’s in Zapata’s erstwhile domain that the Ayotzinapa Normal School, which the missing students attended, was built in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution as part of a teachers’ college system inspired by a radical social vision dedicated to promoting knowledge and social mobility among its mostly poor and indigenous student body. Today’s revolutionaries are well aware of how deeply the history of the Mexican Revolution still resonates. In 1994, Subcomandante Marcos laid claim to that symbolism when, not far from Ayotzinapa, he launched a rebel movement on New Year’s Day as leader of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. Marcos declared war on the Mexican government on the same day that the North American Free Trade Agreement among Mexico, the United States and Canada went into effect. NAFTA, claimed Marcos, would spell death for Mexico’s indigenous people. The outrage over the missing students and the authorities’ failure to solve the disappearances has spurred thousands across Mexico to demand social justice and government accountability. The Ayotzinapa case, they argue, is not an isolated incident of local government working with drug gangs to repress students and the poor. Instead, the episode reflects a deeply entrenched phenomenon of violence deployed to silence opposition, with a complicit federal government." Maybe the Mexican people are stirring; maybe not. The truth is, they would have to take on not only the Mexican military and law enforcement establishment to disturb the status quo, but no doubt the power of the CIA to boot.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 4, 2015 14:47:30 GMT -5
america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/11/22/don-t-expect-an-aztecspringwithmexicoprotestsanalystswarn.html"MEXICO CITY — After weeks of protests over the disappearance of 43 students in the southern state of Guerrero, many thousands of demonstrators converged on Mexico City. Their demands were no longer simply to learn the fate of the missing students or to bring those responsible to justice; instead, they also called for the resignation of President Enrique Peña Nieto. But despite such revolutionary demands and such dramatic imagery as the torching of the doors the national palace last weekend, analysts are not predicting that dramatic change in Mexico is imminent." "The current upsurge reflects deep-seated revulsion shared among wide sectors of civil society at the pervasive corruption and drug-war-related violence of the status quo. But there are no signs yet that this protest wave is any different from a number of other eruptions of mass anger over the past two decades that have failed to transform that status quo despite its stark failure to deliver security and justice to the citizenry." Let's hope the "analysts" are wrong, whomever they are. But unlike a hundred years ago, few people in Mexico or the world are willing to stick their necks out for change.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 19, 2015 11:40:40 GMT -5
america.aljazeera.com/multimedia/2015/1/mexico-s-pandemicfemicides.html"According to the National Citizen Femicide Observatory, a coalition of 43 groups that document the crime, six women are assassinated every day. Yet only 24 percent of the 3,892 femicides the group identified in 2012 and 2013 were investigated by authorities. And only 1.6 percent led to sentencing. “Femicides are a pandemic in Mexico,” asserts Ana Güezmes, the local representative of United Nations Women, the agency devoted to gender issues. The word "feminicidio" first entered the vernacular in the 1990s, with explosive rates of disappearances and murders of women in the border town of Ciudad Juárez. In fact, more women have been killed in the state of Mexico, which surrounds the capital city of the same name. The number doubled from 2005 to 2011, when the current national president, Enrique Peña Nieto, was governor of the state. Today he has pledged to combat drug violence overall but has not spoken out against femicides. Impunity is the main motor of the gender crime, Güezmes says, as well as social norms that allow the violence to be ignored or accepted as a normal part of life. She describes femicides as the extreme end of a society where 63 percent of women have suffered abuse by male hands. She estimates that maybe a third or half of the cases involved sexual partners. The balance — abductions, rapes and discarding the bodies like garbage — are probably linked to the generalized drug violence that is tearing Mexico apart." Ya know, I used to think Mexico would be a nice place to retire, but no longer. The culture is just too fracked up. And of course American drug money only pours gasoline on the fire.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 14, 2015 16:33:17 GMT -5
I read about an Occupy Tijuana protest (yes, they still have an active Occupy movement. But I don't know if they had 5, 50, or 500 protesters) over the murder of those 43 students. From where I sit, it seems the Mexican left are the only ones outraged about the murders, the rest of Mexico seems to have shrugged it's shoulders. Jeez, if it had happened in an American city, law enforcement would tear apart the city, the county, and maybe the state to bring the murderers to justice. If Mexico won't clean up it's act, no wonder a lot of Americans want to build a big wall.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 25, 2015 23:50:07 GMT -5
Unfortunately, the chances of a Revolution in Mexico are almost nil. If ever a leftist movement came close to power, America is still at the peak of it's imperial power, and would do all that it could to support right-wing factions and the military, which is a lot. Drone assassinations of leftist leaders? Who knows how far the CIA would go. But it's moot because the Mexicans don't seem willing to stick their necks out to reform their country.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 26, 2015 12:59:37 GMT -5
america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/9/pea-nietos-strategy-of-denial-is-undermining-his-promises.htmlToday is a gruesome anniversary in Mexico: It has been a year since the attack in Iguala, Guerrero, that killed six people and resulted in the forced disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teacher training college. The investigation into that attack has been so thoroughly mismanaged by the Mexican state that an international panel of experts working for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights recently declared that the narrative of events constructed by the Mexican Attorney General’s office was, in a word, impossible. At every turn over the last year, it seems, the Mexican federal government has obfuscated the truth of what happened that night — so much so that Amnesty International has called the government’s actions in response to the report a “desperate cover-up strategy.” There are a number of explanations for the heartless ineptitude of the Mexican state over the past year: high levels of corruption and deep ties to the drug cartels within the government; partisan politics and the need to protect members of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI; and the power afforded to the Mexican military in the U.S.-backed war on drugs. All are important aspects of this story. But the reaction of the Mexican government to the disappearance betrays a motivation closer to the surface: President Enrique Peña Nieto has made clear from his first day in office that his top priority is security for foreign investors, rather than for the Mexican people. But this strategy has produced devastating human rights consequences. What’s more, it isn’t even working to improve the Mexican economy. It's also sad you can't trust the American press to tell you the truth about Mexico. I still remember when the American press went ga-ga when the first right-wing PAN party candidate was elected President. And look at all the good Fox and Calderon did Mexico.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 28, 2017 0:41:42 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on Jul 10, 2017 15:00:40 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/world/americas/mexico-missing-students-pegasus-spyware.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0"MEXICO CITY — A team of international investigators brought to Mexico to unravel one of the nation’s gravest human rights atrocities was targeted with sophisticated surveillance technology sold to the Mexican government to spy on criminals and terrorists. The spying took place during what the investigators call a broad campaign of harassment and interference that prevented them from solving the haunting case of 43 students who disappeared after clashing with the police nearly three years ago.Appointed by an international commission that polices human rights in the Americas, the investigators say they were quickly met with stonewalling by the Mexican government, a refusal to turn over documents or grant vital interviews, and even a retaliatory criminal investigation." And this is why I will never go back to Mexico. And to think I once thought about retiring there.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2017 20:34:58 GMT -5
[quote author=" jdredd" source=" FAKE NEWS ALERT! NYT IS FAKE NEWS! "MEXICO CITY — A team of international investigators brought to Mexico to unravel one of the nation’s gravest human rights atrocities was targeted with sophisticated surveillance technology sold to the Mexican government to spy on criminals and terrorists. The spying took place during what the investigators call a broad campaign of harassment and interference that prevented them from solving the haunting case of 43 students who disappeared after clashing with the police nearly three years ago.Appointed by an international commission that polices human rights in the Americas, the investigators say they were quickly met with stonewalling by the Mexican government, a refusal to turn over documents or grant vital interviews, and even a retaliatory criminal investigation." And this is why I will never go back to Mexico. And to think I once thought about retiring there. [/quote] Answer The Question Pedophile! Im waiting for you to try to Kill me! Good Luck!
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Post by jdredd on Jul 11, 2017 1:00:48 GMT -5
[quote author=" jdredd" source=" FAKE NEWS ALERT! NYT IS FAKE NEWS! "MEXICO CITY — A team of international investigators brought to Mexico to unravel one of the nation’s gravest human rights atrocities was targeted with sophisticated surveillance technology sold to the Mexican government to spy on criminals and terrorists. The spying took place during what the investigators call a broad campaign of harassment and interference that prevented them from solving the haunting case of 43 students who disappeared after clashing with the police nearly three years ago.Appointed by an international commission that polices human rights in the Americas, the investigators say they were quickly met with stonewalling by the Mexican government, a refusal to turn over documents or grant vital interviews, and even a retaliatory criminal investigation." And this is why I will never go back to Mexico. And to think I once thought about retiring there. Answer The Question Pedophile! Im waiting for you to try to Kill me! Good Luck! [/quote] You never said please so I'm done talking about it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2017 20:13:06 GMT -5
[quote author=" jdredd" source=" FAKE NEWS ALERT! NYT IS FAKE NEWS! "MEXICO CITY — A team of international investigators brought to Mexico to unravel one of the nation’s gravest human rights atrocities was targeted with sophisticated surveillance technology sold to the Mexican government to spy on criminals and terrorists. The spying took place during what the investigators call a broad campaign of harassment and interference that prevented them from solving the haunting case of 43 students who disappeared after clashing with the police nearly three years ago.Appointed by an international commission that polices human rights in the Americas, the investigators say they were quickly met with stonewalling by the Mexican government, a refusal to turn over documents or grant vital interviews, and even a retaliatory criminal investigation." And this is why I will never go back to Mexico. And to think I once thought about retiring there. Answer The Question Pedophile! Im waiting for you to try to Kill me! Good Luck! You never said please so I'm done talking about it.[/quote] Answer The Question! Wheres your Proof? Any Evidence?? You going to Run and Hide in your Safe space??
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Post by jdredd on Nov 7, 2017 2:54:42 GMT -5
So the effort to save the vaquitas suffered a setback when one captured one died. Maybe the Sea Shepard people are right that they should make the upper Sea of Cortez safe from greedy fishermen serving the needs of superstitious Asians. But that is politically impossible in corrupt Mexico. Another species going extinct because of politics. Oh well.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 10, 2018 18:10:44 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/opinion/mexico-tax-nafta-lopez-obrador.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region"The third squall ahead lies in the presidential election. This will be the fifth consecutive democratic vote for Mexico: a first in its history. That in itself is a major achievement. And the election promises to be fundamentally free and fair: another accomplishment. But the outcome, at least according to most current polls, promises to be problematic. The reason is Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the left-wing politician and presidential candidate better known as AMLO. The issue is not so much whether Mr. López Obrador, the former mayor of Mexico City, will win — he is a clear front-runner — but rather whether the domestic and foreign business communities believe he will. They appear to, and are already acting in consequence, generating the beginnings of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Similarly, predictions of his being another Hugo Chávez or Luis Echeverría (Mexico’s populist president of the 1970s) may or may not be valid; the question is whether investors trust those forecasts. They seem to, and are either delaying projects in the pipeline or postponing new ones until after the election." Not quite a revolution, but definitely a first if Mexico got a PRD President, especially with a right-wing bozo in the WH. But no country can afford not to kiss the asses of investors in the global economy, so I doubt it would make much of a difference in Mexico. But another interesting point is how countries are racing to the bottom on taxing corporations. The USA is now below Mexico on corporate tax rates (21 vs 30), so money could flee from south of the border into the US. Unlike those dirty poor Mexican workers. Which is the Plutocracy's dream: Money can cross borders but people are trapped inside them for easy exploitation.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 8, 2018 2:14:52 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/opinion/mexico-election-lopez-obrador.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region"Mr. López Obrador has promised “a change of regime.” Mexican voters should carefully consider what he means, given the precedents. To begin with, he has said that he does not believe in the existence of Mexican democracy, though it has been in the context of its rules, institutions and freedoms that he has gained the likelihood of power. Nor does he trust in the National Electoral Institute. After losing the 2006 election by a wafer-thin margin (0.58 percent), he declared the election fraudulent and led his followers in occupying the Paseo de la Reforma, the central artery of Mexico City, an action rejected by the public. Defeated by a larger margin (6.63 percent) in 2012, he again claimed fraud. He has continued to show disdain for the institutions of liberal democracy. “To hell with their institutions,” he famously said in 2006 and has not disavowed his assertion. And he recently accused the Supreme Court of being an instrument of the oligarchy used to dominate the people. There is a genuine linkage of religious fervor (which it seems just to call messianic) between Mr. López Obrador and his followers. Confident in that connection, he has shown an unbending intolerance toward criticism from the media and intellectuals. He has a disqualifying adjective for every group that doubts or opposes him: “fakes,” “conservatives,” “sellouts.” He has called the press “fifí” (bourgeois). He has proved to be incapable of self-criticism and shows a significant tendency to divide the country between “the people” who support him and all the others, who support “the mafia in power.” The Mexican elections are not until July, but the American press is already attacking the left-of-center candidate. The Investorocracy prefers right-of-center "pro-business" governments.
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