Mexamerica or missiles?
Diego Martin Velazquez Caballero
The criticisms of the relationship between Ambassador Ken Salazar and President López Obrador show the confusion of the antagonistic Mexicos (Whitexicans/Power Moreno) to the relationship that is convenient for the real Mexico that we have in front of us.
Mexico has not been able to emerge as a sovereign nation because of the imperialisms that colonize it: Spanish, Catholic and North American. The data of the national socioeconomic structure are terrible based on the Iberian, Vatican and Anglo-Saxon plunder. The Mexican economy is as surreal as our culture and, precisely, the social pathologies it causes are calling the attention of the greatest hegemony against the country: the United States. Neither Spain nor Rome are neighbors of Mexico, North America must endure a proximity that is increasingly dangerous and poisonous.
Gen. Francisco Villa expelled the casticista Spaniards from some northern provinces when he held political office, but before Osama Bin Laden he was the first lone guerrilla to attack -quixotically- the United States. Unlike Spain and the Holy See, the United States sent an expedition that unsuccessfully searched for the Centaur of the North. Similar things are happening now, there are too many independent combatants like General Villa - the mercenary drug trafficking groups - who no longer persecute Spaniards according to Alfonso XIII's complaint, but who have turned the north of Mexico and the south of the United States into a one of the highest breaking regions in the world. The Republicans, with enormous possibilities of achieving North American political power, no longer think of sending General John Pershing but rather missiles. This is how Donald Trump considered it and it is not a distant idea for his faithful conservative groups if the strategic geopolitics of the situation in Ukraine are taken into account.
Within the too many criticisms of the government projects of the Fourth Transformation, the educational reform was recently questioned. The gueritocracy is right, many of the measures of the new pedagogical paternalism from the basic level to the superior do not improve the competences, skills, techniques and quality in a dynamic global world. But in almost thirty years of neoliberal governments they did not do much either and the "excellent" contribution of private education simply did not arrive. The national economy depends on remittances from Mexicans abroad, mainly in the United States, the informal economy and drug trafficking (probably in a different order of importance). Our country has not been able to de-petrolese itself, stop being a maquiladora industry, and what remains is simply not enough to measure what it means to be among the top fifty economies in the world. Even the State has to administer neo-extractivism and generate parastatals so that the country can survive.
The fact that barely a quarter of the people who enter primary school reach university, among which almost three quarters are underemployed and unemployed; It is indicative of how much there is to transform and modernize in the socioeconomic structure of Mexico. If the country remains in the economy of dead hands, content and dispossession that so benefits the Hispanic hierarchical castes, subsistence through smuggling and emigration will force the United States to take a rigorous geopolitical measure. The gueritocracy did nothing, and took a lot.
Our economy continues to be informal and dependent on North America, we are a country that manufactures foreign industry, lacks technology and only provides a cheap labor force; although it dominates the movement of Latin American drugs. The field is more than a tragedy.
Coexistence with the United States has become unbearable and, after confirming the ideas of Samuel Huntington, perhaps America under the current administration of Joe Biden has decided to go the other way.
The Democratic administrations have been particularly complicated for Mexico during the neoliberal era, in addition to highlighting that the adjustment and modernization policies were not carried out correctly, they also indicated that drug trafficking increased exponentially, taking the Mexican-American border to the point of being the border of chaos.
Mexico's economic dependence on the United States has been shown in a stubborn way; Despite the exclusion, Mexicans adhere to the American Union. Donald Trump's administration also tried to improve relations with Mexico, but the scenario changed negatively and his hegemonic nationalist project broke down; Now, in his attempt to return to the White House, in addition to the traditional anti-Mexican discourse, he has added Vladimir Putin's strategy to order Mexico, which surely many Anglo-Saxons and even Mexicans will support.
The importance of Mexico as a US backyard or front yard is manifested in the change that the Biden administration has had and the logic of Ken Salazar. According to geopoliticians like George Friedman, relations between Mexico and the States will be conflictive by 2080. The current global crisis has perhaps shown the importance of treating the Mexican question with patience and care in order to inhibit not only a new Mexican-American war, which It would mean complete vulnerability for our country, although it would also expose the United States to its rivals on the southern geographic flank. Ken Salazar has understood that Mexicanness is the kryptonite of the Yankee Empire, Mexicanness is more dangerous than communism or atomic energy, for this reason he proposes a Mexican-American integration delimiting the border to Suchiate that would be more convenient for North American national security in a multipolar and anti-Western world that is approaching and is actually settling in Nicaragua. Abruptly seizing national territory, or more, would generate serious costs in Mexico and the southern United States as a result of guerrilla warfare, as the Republican proposal seems to be. Geopolitical awareness has forced the Biden administration, through Ken Salazar, to approach López Obrador and even exhort the Civic Front, the Catholic Church, the Alianza va por México and even Maria Amparo Cassar to support MORENA. It´s insulting and unacceptable! Say the Iberian gachupines, who have lived in Mexico for so many centuries and whose medieval casticismo is not exhausted.
The Democratic proposal of Mister Danger in these critical moments of humanity must be taken seriously by Mexico. Mexamerica or Spanglishdad can be the starting point in a United States/Mexico relationship that safeguards the scenario of George Friedman and that, without a doubt, will be the rhetoric of the Republicans towards 2024. Ken Salazar is the last chance for a civilizational bridge to reduce schizophrenia and social anomie in our country.