Mexico's Transactions with the United States

 Mexico's Transactions with the United States

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero

Some analysts continue to find it surprising that Mexico is reacting slowly to threats from the United States. Although it is stressed that the country should organize itself as Ukraine did with regard to Russia, the truth is that the interdependence of Mexico and the United States has so many elements that integration is more evident than fracture; a North American military intervention can even fragment convergences and values ​​understood in certain aspects. The manifest governmental apathy seems to indicate that Mexico lives in relation to the United States under a prolonged Indentured Servant, that is, the labor servitude that has been so important for the subsidy of the North American economy during the centuries of its existence and that, whatever happens, Mexican slavery will end up mitigating the economic crisis in North America.

The indentured servant has been a condition of several nationalities that seek to integrate into North America. It is the racial cover that in some cases, such as African Americans, has lasted almost as long as that of Hispanics. It is true that this figure has disappeared from legal consideration in the admission of American nationality and citizenship; however, this is the only way to understand that the pressure on our country has taken on elevated tones, regular incrementalist actions on the part of North America, and passive national resistance from Mexican society.

Of course, Mexicans in the United States are more than important for the economy of the powerful northern neighbor; however, Mexico cannot implement the measures that the Trumpist government intends to solve the American problems of drugs and employment. The historical speed between our countries has marked differences.

The lack of synchronicity between Mexico and the United States can cause one of the most important humanitarian crises in the region, the government of Claudia Sheinbaum is obliged to exercise important leadership. That is, it is not only about demanding recognition of the importance of migrants, it is also essential to change the regional context of the country. If insecurity, caciques, the strength of the de facto powers, etc. were to decrease in Mexico; also the entry of foreign remittances would have a better impact and migration would decrease; Emigration is similar to the escape from narco-societies and terrible spaces full of anomies. Attention to internal problems also counts for the perception of Mexican emigration to change. The Mexican universe is saturated with traumas caused by poverty, violence and drug trafficking.

The president of Mexico should not side with coyotes, chieftains, criminals and polleros who have taken advantage of migration for so long, turning it into trafficking and exploitation. The elaboration of PAN public policies during the Fox period that sought to involve Mexican migrants in the community development of their localities and civic participation in them can be questioned; it is true, they worked poorly and little. However, Morena has nothing and does not consult specialists and scholars of the subject to take better advantage of the material and cultural importance of remittances. The latest research on the avocado and lemon trade has significant contributions to understanding the migratory phenomenon in our country. Government innovation must also consult and improve the actions of the administrative past.

Mexican Cartels: Coarsairs Meaning

Mexican Cartels: Coarsairs Meaning 

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero

According to George Friedman, there is a connection between businessmen, government and drug cartels that supposed a prospective attack on the United States in 2080. This logic, however, corresponds to the history of England and the Anglo-Saxon culture that encouraged piracy while protecting the protagonists of the robbery and trafficking. The British East India Company was a project that structured actors of diverse nature to promote Anglo-Saxon hegemony in the West.

This model has not been able to be replicated in Latin America, although the conditions are in a similar condition and, despite the fact that these alliances are shown as evident and irrefutable, Mexico does not have anything bordering on the British Company; but, it is highly probable that, according to historical tradition, the United States will develop similar schemes. Blackwater is the modern version of the British East India Company. Where does this leave Mexican drug trafficking?

The comprehensive sociological narrative of drug trafficking has lost all meaning. Factionalism destroys the perspective that the cartels do not exist, that they are run by the Mexican government or that they even represent mercenaries from other countries. The low-intensity war that Mexico has experienced for almost twenty years, the Zedillo-Calderonista war on drugs, does not allow us to see the sides or who the enemies of Mexican society are.

George Friedman's analysis seems ideally manufactured for the war that the Yankee Empire and its Pentagonism need. Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and Elon Musk can be confident that their ultra-power will easily prevail in Mexico; however, it is important to point out that the scarecrow of the Mexican Drug Conspiracy to destroy the United States never existed. Like all conspiracies, it is a myth implanted in the White House by the Deep State so feared by Mister Carrot; but always allied to Mister Danger. The arrival of Donald Trump is one of the most important risks for Mexican identity in contemporary times; hopefully this problem will lead to national unity and, if confrontation is inevitable, the best negotiation and post-war strategy with North America will be established.

Mexican identity can be something more than inertia, a stronger impulse than the springboard used by Hispanic identity. The intellectual evolution developed by Jorge Castañeda Gutman implies a task for future generations; Mexico will never exist while it is in the shadow of Hispanic identity, on the other hand, Mexico can overcome the proteusia and entelechy of egepticism if it takes seriously the task of assimilation that the millions of Mexican emigrants in North America have developed. The border, the zone of civilizational breakdown that our country has, daily points out the cultural orphanage of Mexico, Mexico is more North America than Latin America. With Donald Trump comes another opportunity to abandon schizophrenia.

The unrest, confusion and desolation that the arrival of Trumpism implies for Mexico can also be an incentive to understand a reality that is evaded by the Hispanic cultural hegemony. Mexico, in a strict, material and economic sense, is part of the United States; but, Mexican society does not benefit from the results and actions that this proximity and leverage provokes. The departure from the Habsburg Model, from the old feudal regime, can be caused by the impending conflict with the United States. The low-intensity war is becoming an extreme civil war that no one understands or can stop; the American Corsairs did their job well and now the United States will propose the solution. This is what happened in the Mexican Revolution, the Cristiada, the Second World War and the Cold War. In this course of events only one thing is clear: the national government counts less and less and the dominant classes accelerate their accommodative movements; Mexican society has the final say - as in 1994 - to choose the task of North American assimilation or the story of the patrimonialist, corporatist, caciquil dinosaur.

Jean Marie Le Pen and right-wing militancy

 Jean Marie Le Pen and right-wing militancy

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero

France has been the cradle of multiple right-wing movements, its historical role in Catholic nationalism and European imperialism has marked extreme and moderate political projects in this regard. Le Pen's death shows the trajectory of a militant, abrupt and politically incorrect right that has functioned as a receptacle for electoral tendencies contrary to traditional political parties and Macronism; however, the trajectory of the French right surpasses the National Front.

Although the Le Pens have accessed the runoff for the presidency of the republic on a couple of occasions, this has not put the French political order at risk, in fact, it can be said, this militant right has served as a halter for the neoliberal vision to become hegemonic. There are other important right-wing parties in France, not as combative - electorally speaking - as the National Front has been, but with a significant historical background that, in tandem, contribute to maintaining a balance between conservative and oligarchic political tendencies so that the 5th Republic can be sustained.

The history of the French right goes beyond the antagonism against the revolution that meant for the Gallic country and Europe, the transition from the old to the new regime, the departure from feudalism and the commitment to modern and secular republics. For now, it is worth highlighting the links between Joseph Pilsudski and Charles de Gaulle to explain links that go beyond military relations and involve the anti-communism that linked different fascisms. France, like other European countries, welcomed different actors in conflict with the Soviet Union and developed spaces of understanding for multiple international right-wing parties.

French personalism and Prometheanism are linked to the Intermarium geopolitical project that rejects the Soviet Union under Catholic schemes that confront Freemasonry, Judaism and Communism. This was the cultural environment that structured the personality of Jean Marie Le Pen, his political organization and offspring. Until now, the National Front continues to deny those elements that Catholic nationalism and secret societies inspired; even, that ended up being exported to other Latin countries such as Latin America.

The National Front has fulfilled its objective of being useful to conservatism, although it is true that its electoral importance does not allow it to reach significant positions of power, it has complicated the advance of the socialists and, above all, it makes specific criticisms of multiculturalism. The French right is more than latent, although it has not reached power. The crisis of the 5th Republic can open the game for extremists to take dominant positions and their arrival in the Second Round consolidates Jean Marie Le Pen's desire.

Tricky Old Trumpy Trump

Tricky Old Trumpy Trump 

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero 

 Although many analysts and scholars revel in the terror caused by the future president of the United States, there are also those who assume that the threats of the New York businessman are simply threats and blackmail to induce the collaboration of the Mexican government.

In any case, the relationship with the northern neighbor represents an enormous commitment for the Mexican government, which also faces constant evaluation by its detractors.

In retrospect, and observing Donald Trump's experience at the head of the White House between 2017 and 2021, it is evident that he did not even manage to carry out half of the threats he made against Mexicans in a situation of illegal immigration; mainly in relation to the border wall and mass deportations.

On the other hand, although drug trafficking is one of the most serious problems in Mexico, its magnitude is different in the United States.

For the United States, this only represents a public health problem that –in reality- is of little interest to them, since there are no policies that try to effectively regulate the issue of addictions; it can even be said that drug addiction is part of the natural selection that savage American liberalism implies.

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Under these conditions and considering the health results of the first Trumpist government, it is expected that there will be little progress.

In reality, Donald Trump intends for the Mexican government to be in charge of the fight against the cartels, without that meaning the reduction of commitments to the Pentagon, which are fundamental for the economy of the empire.

Just as occurred in the issue of border surveillance and the protection of migrants, the cost of the fight against drug trafficking will be borne by the Mexican economy and also the deaths that result.

President Sheinbaum has pointed out the injustice of this forced collaboration, while her cabinet is incredulous in the face of the threats; However, Mexico is obliged to comply with the United States more than Donald Trump himself.

The situation perhaps represents an optimal collaborative understanding where the economy of our country is overcome thanks to the balances of the empire, the underemployment that the US government creates in the Mexican government allows membership in the USMCA and the maintenance of remittances; Democrats or Republicans do not change outsourcing to Mexico.