Sunday, March 27, 2022

Bear Empire

 Bear Empire



Diego Martin Velazquez Caballero

Although Russia does not agree that its nation is classified as a bear for the reason of strength and aggressiveness that distinguishes the ursids, North America is also a territory of this type of mammal. The former United States ambassador to Mexico Jeffrey Davidow developed a textual work where his nation was signified as a bear and Mexico as a porcupine. That is to say, while the Russians do not like being considered bears, the Americans recognize themselves as such.

How can the United States and Russia be the same? Probably in imperialist expansionism. In the use of force to unilaterally impose their criteria with their neighbors. Davidow considers that Mexico is wrong in the way it looks at the United States, Mexican nationalism is reactionary, hence the figure of the porcupine, but can a bear really be friends with a porcupine?

The perspective of neutrality that Mexico has tried to maintain in the face of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has not pleased anyone. The grizzly bear has demanded, as always, that others come forward in the conflict to weaken his enemies even if the situation constitutes suicide.

The United States does not want to lose its hegemony or world control, but its decline faces the most critical point in the Russian-Ukrainian situation. The post-covid world represents a perspective where economic and political liberalism cannot advance any further, Samuel Huntington returns to tell America that it is necessary to return to its origin since he has lost the project of modernity and reason. Humanity is not satisfied with a Western identity that represents the United States, metastases everywhere, sclerosis disguised as consumerism and equivocal freedoms. American expansionism is also responsible for democratic decline.

The consecration of the Catholic Church to Russia signifies a point of agreement in global conservative tendencies. Non-Western societies have chosen to embrace certain aspects of modernity and reject others, especially those that entail high economic costs and social disorder. Although several countries have joined the economic sanctions that the United States and the global financial organizations under its control have imposed on Russia; the representative core states of non-Western peoples agree with Vladimir Putin in an anti-American obsession the likes of which had not been seen before, not even in the era of the Cold War or the Middle East invasions.

England's departure from the European Union shows the true face of Anglo-Saxon culture: pragmatism. Liberalism cannot be a civilizing culture if it does not fulfill an evangelizing task, it has been presented everywhere as a methodology of looting and abuse. The North American empire has come to an end because it is putting the human race on the verge of extinction, as well as all life on the planet. If the terrestrial cataclysm presented itself, the North Americans - like the Anglo-Saxons - would go out to live on Mars or the Moon.

Should the porcupine trust the bear? No. Is Ukraine the porcupine of Russia? We don't know, but it should be porcupine against the United States. What will happen to so many porcupine?


In the case of volatile geopolitical alliances, other bears engage in behaviors that redefine their allegiances.

Sunday, March 20, 2022

Auxiliary Boards and Municipal Federalism in Puebla

 Auxiliary Boards and Municipal Federalism in Puebla



Diego Martin Velazquez Caballero

The PAN bench in the state Legislature has promoted one of the important issues, although not very significant for the interests of the local political system. Within the principles that founded the Blue and White opposition, federalism was essential, which is logical in a context of a centralist Hegemonic Party where local governments with different political preferences were systematically blocked. For decades, the few PAN councils where it was inevitable to recognize the transparency of the electoral results were ignored and their administrations tried to be efficient to generate a favorable political trend, especially in the cities where the PAN sought the vote of the conservative middle class. PAN federalism has been changing as state governments and national power reached, the ideas of opposition were accommodating the PRI turncoat, chiefdom and federalist centralism.

 The theory of rational choice and liberal democracy, indicate that the ideal is to create new municipalities and allow subordinate communities to emancipate the heads. The Auxiliary Boards in the municipality of Puebla must be constituted as municipalities, because that is what they were, because they more than meet the requirements of the Municipal Organic Law, because the vassalage to which they are subjected is immoral. The history of chiefdom, authoritarianism, racism and discrimination; it goes through the despotism exercised by the municipal heads to the subordinate communities. However, PRI legislators from different political parties have always preferred to develop the socioeconomic structure that feeds the hegemony of the Pueblan oligarchy instead of promoting art. 115 constitutional with all its forces.

In Puebla and Mexico, creating new municipalities would be synonymous with ending chiefdom, clientelism, and the politics of poverty. Maria Amparo Cassar, Mauricio Merino, Enrique Cabrero and many more, in Puebla the role of Doctor César Musalem Jop should be highlighted, they have developed technologies and arguments to justify the creation of more municipalities or federal tax laws that oblige mayors to share proportionally the shares, resources and obligations with subordinate authorities. Puebla and Tlaxcala have legal recognition for the subordinate communities of the municipalities - What a relief! - In other states the issue may be more serious: the citizens of the auxiliary boards do not exist.

The federalist debate proposed by the PAN is significant, I hope that the legislators of his faction take the issue seriously and can finally do something more than a trivial montage. Of the Local Congress, as a whole, it can only be said that it is a perfidious entity against the municipalities and federalism in Puebla. Municipalizing, instead of privatizing, can be realistic to build an authentic opposition discourse. Politics and business are different things, at the local level is where the perverse confusion of both identities causes terrible damage: water, cleaning, security, lighting..., not everything can be solved through outsourcing. The managerial mentality in public affairs only means black market.

The number of municipalities that Mexico and Puebla have, as extensive as it may seem, is negligible compared to the size of local governments that consolidated democracies have. The United States and France are simple samples, but even the same Spain that Hispanic Creoles like so much can be taken as an example. Is the administrative malfunction of the Resurrection or Canoa really more serious for the municipality of Puebla than the white and corrupt elephant called IMPLAN? Doesn't the capital of Puebla deserve a local government based on Mayors or Delegations instead of a municipal administration that can less every day because the growth of the City is more than expansive? That the auxiliary authorities are human traffickers or drug traffickers, only shows that the legislators of Puebla do not know the cacicazgos of the interior of the state nor the corruption and incompetence that the municipal public accounts mean year after year; there is the design of planned failure. Or perhaps they know him to the extent that they lobby him and know how to take advantage of it. Some PAN mayors of Puebla capital and the metropolitan area, in the past, have made courageous and admirable federalist decisions that the oligarchic Congress has been throwing down. The current PAN members should learn from them, who every day identify more with the Barbosista and/or Morenovallista government instead of the nostalgic Gomezmorinian ideal. The pragmatic PAN may be right in the behavior of survival, but we already know how Faustian soap operas of submission end with the governor in office.

Democratic consolidation needs a deep reflection on the municipalities, the discussion in Puebla cannot wait any longer. Beyond progressive issues, the legislative agenda must not ignore the (glocal) municipal debate, municipalities must also become postmodern in the face of a runaway post-Covid world.

Thursday, March 17, 2022

Should the US invade Mexico?

 Should the US invade Mexico?

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero 



The conflict in Ukraine has led to a rethinking of the relationship and the social fractures between Mexicans as well as between Mexico and the United States. The debate regarding the reasons for the Ukrainian groups that have developed a previous civil war can be raised in almost the same way in our country: there is a social fracture -perhaps several more- between individuals, which refers to preferences regarding the tradition and modernity. In Ukraine, the region close to Russia has pro-Russian sentiment and cultural reasons for choosing tsarist Orthodox Christianity, conservative authoritarianism, and Eurasianism; the western zone identifies with the values ​​of capitalist liberal democracy as well as the postmodern values ​​of consumerist cultural metastasis. The European East/West has been translated as the Mexican North/South due to the opposition to Morena and the 4T. Just as the pro-American Ukrainians call for NATO intervention to confront Russia, even at the expense of bursting the nuclear cataclysm that would end humanity; In the same way, a large part of pro-American neoliberal Mexicans ask for North American intervention against the national government as if all the evils of the republic had begun in 2018.

Vladimir Putin has pointed out that the military intervention in Ukraine is due to the genocide that Nazi paramilitary groups and drug addicts committed against the population with cultural and racial ancestry identified as pro-Russian. This argument is important to understand the geopolitics of the United States towards Mexico and the reasons of the right that supports interventionism. In Mexico, the gangs of Nazis, drug traffickers and genocide; they have acted - at least during the 20th century - as allies of North America. The monstrosities that Russia is committing against Ukrainian democracy have been done by the United States against Mexico for most of its history.

The United States, not the democrat but the insane imperial Caesar, has used pentagonism to sponsor conservative and neoliberal dictatorships that not only exterminated actors resistant to modernity and capitalism, but also discarded nationalist armies and military defenses, as is now happening in Mexico. Anomie and anarchy developed uncontrollably during the neoliberal era to subsidize the informal and military economy of the United States. Arms trafficking from the United States to Mexico shows the indolence and hypocrisy of Democratic-Republican companies and governments. The paramilitary groups and political coalitions that the United States has financed for a long time are also part of the war crimes committed by Yankee imperialism. Mexico and Ukraine have similar stories, you just have to see who is financing the mafias of Nazis and drug addicts that cause genocide.

North America has waged a secret war against Mexico since the very moment of its independence, conferring on itself the invisible power that has governed our country since colonial times. Mexican neocolonialism is pro-Yankee, pro-Hispanist and neoliberal. America's secret war against Mexico began in 1821 and is about to take control of the country. The Ukrainian scenario is no different from various events in the history of the country. Ukraine cannot join NATO and Mexico cannot be free, democratic, egalitarian, independent, legal, sovereign.

The invisible power fueled by the United States against Mexico has colonized all spheres of human life in our society. The American Union speaks of invading the Mexican Republic now that a government intends to change the structural violence that sustains the Creole and administrative oligarchies of the empire. The pentagonist press and intelligentsia have always pointed to Mexico as a criminal nation, a failed state; but it is not stated that the mafias and sultanates are allies of the CIA and the DEA.

The north of the country was intervened to detonate unprecedented violence that has become the real wall with the US, also as a justification to militarize the country and weaken the Armed Forces and, in this way, finally develop a military contingent completely North American service.

The Mexican State and the Armed Forces are already in a war against the paramilitary and Nazi advance of the United States. The War of the year 2080 envisioned by George Friedmann is a cruel reality, with one important difference: the financial power of drug trafficking is in the United States and neoliberalism has only served for extermination and neo-extractivism.

Vladimir Putin is not wrong when he points out that the Western world has avoided denazification, it is the great slope of the capitalist world. The United States is the Fourth Reich and financier of genocidal fascism. Democracies die because Nazism lives.