United States in the fight for Mexican hegemony
Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero
Nexos Magazine proposes the analysis of the idea of North America in the development of the Mexican political system. Unquestionably, the effects have been broad and the integration of different Mexican social processes into the American orbit is inevitable. The Mexico of revolutionary nationalism only existed in the imagination and dignity of some; In practice, Mexico has been a North American State since it lost the Cristero War and after the Second World War. Mexican nationalism clings to an invertebrate, imaginary homeland, a Comala that disappears when the hour is paid for eight dollars and the gringo employer offers the possibility of full time. In addition to being a PRI member, the Mexican is condemned to wear Mickey Mouse ears as Commander Fidel Castro pointed out.
In the debate over the impact of the Free Trade Agreement and Salinism on the Mexican political system, Master Carlos Ramírez intelligently proposes the concept of Hegemocracy as the form of the regime in our country. The absence of the State is more than noticeable throughout the 20th century, the State has been supplanted (Samuel Schmidt) by the collusion of the different factions that agree on limited governability. In any case, and due to the character who establishes the fight for the hegemony of the cliques (Miguel Basañez), the boss in our country, who breaks the cord, is the United States.
Populists and Technocrats, Globalists and Globaliphobes, no matter how many missteps and vile things they commit to achieve power, they cannot evade the influence of North America. Mexico is a country intervened by strict geopolitical necessity of the United States. The problem is that the incompetence of the cliques generates ungovernability that incites greater colonialism.
Our country has had a “Filipinization” process since the first half of the 20th century. The Africanist leader Francisco Franco contributed to this fact for the survival of his regime and the opportunity that the Cold War provided. Our country, like the Philippines, is increasingly moving away from Hispanicity and creating a folklore that is incorporated into Anglo-Saxon pluralism, but that economically depends on the United States. The Mexican emigrants - from all over the world - who live in the south of North America, are the advance of a Spanglishdad that in a short time will assimilate into the Latin culture of Miami in the Many Pacquio style.
The inertia and gravitation that the United States exerts on Mexico is inevitable, by any means it is broad and total. Some analysts, exhausted by the useless theorist of capitalist liberal democracy, call for a return to common sense. This tells us that immigrants and drug traffickers are more pro-Yankee than technocrats, financiers and specialists. Mexico has no way out, the only way is to Sandiegotijuanarse.
The social awareness of the idea of North America should drive the proposal of public policies that make integration more cordial and effective, which, in any case, is an overwhelming reality. The hypocrisy of the political class – nationalist or neoliberal – only wastes time and, in any case, integration is carried out in a violent way that increasingly costs more lives and expels millions of people each year and every six years.
Who rules in Mexico? Miguel Basañez asks, obviously the United States. Any attempt at a contrary hegemonic construction represents a fallacy that has cost the unthinkable for our country. The only ones who feign ignorance, or do not truly know, that Mexico is part of North America, is a demented political class that hides its criminality. What remains of the Mexican State, perhaps the government bureaucracy, must insist on policies that take advantage of the inertia of a reality that always defeats us.