Texas (...) fits here in my heart
Diego Martin Velazquez Caballero
We have known the Lone Star State from a distance, it constitutes one of the spaces of the American Union with greater belonging to Mexico, not only for having been part of it and constituting one of the significant traumas of national identity, but also because it is a of the main receiving communities of Mexican emigrants for several decades, if not centuries.
However, the land of Arenita Mejillas represents the paradoxical ambiguity of the relationship between Mexico and the United States. He was a forgotten land due to the legacy of Spanish laziness that gave rise to the most abusive and shameful Mexican war; However, he has returned so much for Mexico that, at times, it is no longer known if the historical memorandum of rancor makes sense.
Governor Greg Abbott's actions to promote his candidacy for the presidency of the United States adopt the issues of immigration and drug trafficking as local solution strategies that could be implemented later, upon his arrival in the White House. If they worked, it would even be the best idea to also offer him the presidency of the Mexican Republic, but Abbott lies as Houston and Austin did to defeat General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
North American theological liberalism points out that it is useless to try to change the human nature of people, therefore it is appropriate to agree on interests. Probably, after bitter experiences for Mexico, that is why Texas represents the optimum of understanding that countries like the United States and ours can achieve, for the good and, above all, for the bad.
Texas is not the same as California, but it is very similar. Although in the immediate past both entities have distinguished themselves by radical and even xenophobic anti-Mexican policies, economic interests -mainly those of an informal nature- have forced them to institutionalize amnesties for Mexican immigrants, to leave things more or less similar to the previous state that was I wanted to solve.
A previous article by Dr. Samuel Schmidt seems to take up an idea that Carlos Salinas had when he envisioned the issue of drugs and the way they affected the Mexican-American relationship: the gringos do not want to solve the problem, they only want to regulate it. Abbot dodges issues of immigration and drugs, shipping them off to Washington just like when Houston and Austin sent Santa Anna on a ride with the threat of hanging him or leaving him locked up in an African-American slave room. If the Alamo caused so much pain, the worthy thing would have been to shoot the President from Veracruz. Worthy and honorable for all parties, but the interests overcame the nationalist sentiment. The same thing happens with Abbott, he plays the convenience to run as a Republican candidate for the Executive Power of North America, but he does not want to solve anything.
In Texas, as in other states of the American Union, millions of illegal workers arrive, as Joan Sebastián's song says. The search for the American dream and development that Mexico could not offer them, forces an interaction that is paradoxical, complicated, good and very bad. It is certain that Greg Abbott is found every day in the street to hundreds of
drug traffickers, bosses, businessmen and political criminals -natives of Mexico- who have decided to settle in Texas, legally or illegally, to launder their money, live peacefully from their robberies and even continue developing their criminal economy. they don't destroy them? Why doesn't he persecute them and send them to Alaska? Why do so many powerful Mexican criminals live comfortably in Texas? Because Abbott is not an asshole and, above all, he has no ethical principles or friends, he only has interests as dictated by the Monroe Doctrine. There is a vicious, reprehensible, corrupt and toxic circle in the Mexico-United States relationship, worse than the sins of Las Vegas or New York and that is represented in Texas; but Abbott doesn't want to fix it but to weigh the desirability of it. Abbot, like Trump, have forgotten that order is indispensable even to the most voracious liberalism.
Doctor Schmidt formulates scenarios that should be seriously considered towards 2024 by politicians and scholars in Mexico and the United States. The temporary convergence of the successions for power in both nations, can unleash what the futurist George Friedmann points out when the tortilla is finished turning against our countries.
Mexico is experiencing hundreds of Alamos all the time, a low intensity war that calls for arrangements and order, the convenient subterfuges between Mexico and the United States are going to end up infecting both States with Failed and Dangerous States. Lying politicians like Gregg Abbott, Donald Trump and the opposition to Morena - who recognize the failure of the military strategy but do not want to recognize the desperation that he feels for the lack of ideas - are the real danger for our countries and humanity.