Pompilo México
Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero
The recent visit to Mexico by "Mister Cuban" underscores an inescapable reality: the impossibility of our country separating itself from the imposing gravitational pull of the United States. The situation in Venezuela, under constant siege from Washington, is a warning that the Mexican state cannot ignore. Pretending that a South American alternative can develop here is a pipe dream. We are, by geography and history, a North American state of the Far West, and that is our only route.
Considering a break in the production chains between Mexico and the United States is ontological suicide. While some see the USMCA and its predecessors as a yoke on the national economy, the truth is that "any job is better than no job." Populism has not proven capable of generating large-scale formal employment. The grand ideas of alternative economies, while seductive, prove impractical; The only tangible reality is the manufacturing and services sector that North America offers, and the national economy must expand in that direction.
Those suggesting a geopolitical shift toward the Silk Road should look to Venezuela, a country that has handed over more than half of its economy to China with disastrous results. The South American nation's decline should be a clear lesson. And for those who consider an exchange with Brazil fortunate, they would first have to find out what one country could sell to the other, given the self-sufficient nature of the South American giant.
Historian Joseph Schlarman reminded us that Porfirio Díaz, while attempting economic emancipation for Mexico, was overthrown by a North American-inspired rebellion. From then on, the nation was subordinated to the Yankee empire, and the regime of the Mexican Revolution found itself chained in an impossible triangle with the United States. Today, the pillars of our economy, informality and emigration, depend largely on North America, not to mention the formal economy. The territory must no longer be opened to countries that are enemies of the United States, and the Washington tiger must no longer be provoked. Rubio has laid bare the only path to governability in Mexico: seriousness and pragmatism are required from the second tier of the Fourth Transformation.
Would Venezuela have at least the same capacity as Argentina in the Falklands War? The nationalism of Latin Americans is undeniable; every day they die for their own; however, the doubt falls on the patriotism of the ruling elites and oligarchies, who prefer to flee with everything they have stolen rather than defend the countries they claim to represent.
