Texas (...) fits here in my heart

 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.

The Empire said NO

The Empire said NO

May 16, 2020

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero

https://www.semanarioelreto.com/single-post/2020/05/16/El-Imperio-dijo-NO

A few weeks ago, Roberta Jacobson, former United States ambassador to Mexico, pointed out that former President Felipe Calderón knew the relationship of his Secretary of Public Security, Genaro García Luna, with the Sinaloa cartel and other drug trafficking actors in our country. All in all, Americans cannot be surprised when they denounce actions like Calderón's. The United States is the main drug trafficking and drug-consuming power. In narcotics he found, since the Second World War, a way to finance his war economy. All the presidents who collaborate with North America are, have had to be and will be like Calderón, including López Obrador.

Felipe Calderón, like Gustavo Díaz Ordaz and Carlos Salinas de Gortari, are proof of the serious consequence of fully adhering to North American geopolitics and considering their support for posterity when, as former presidents, they seek to exert their influence again. The United States has interests, not friends. The evidence of the presidential links with drug trafficking is like the indications of the LITEMPO payroll. The right is responsible for the tone of relations between Mexico and the United States. As CIA agents and traitors to the country, they profited from the millions of anti-communist dollars to exterminate opposition and social movements, setting the tone for America to expand its imperialism and bring Mexicans to their knees. There was the dirty war that makes them so proud and that they continue to practice on a daily basis. The message from the United States to the right now is to be patient and to seek more serious agendas than feminism. For López Obrador, the message is that he continue working in the WALL for Central American emigration and that he persist in the regulation of drug trafficking. The sword of Imperialism weighs on AMLO, it makes more and more commitments behind society's back. The president must not forget Francisco I. Madero and Henry Lane Wilson, nor the National Catholic Party.

Felipe Calderón may be the Díaz Ordaz of the 21st century, there is hardly anything that can be said in his favor. Could these characters have opposed North American geopolitical interests? Maybe not. But they were able to do less harm by trying to strengthen the State and its institutions, improving the educational level or reducing poverty. On the contrary, obedience to the directives of the pentagon made Mexico project in the next Iraq, where the Yankee economy makes prospective. To strengthen the Creole oligarchy, the PRI and PAN governments encouraged the anti-communist paranoia of the United States and, now, they continue to affirm that the ghosts of the LC23Sep and Lucio Cabañas materialize in López Obrador to carry out the Red Revolution. Their fear of social movements caused the peasants to leave the homeland and the middle class to become a survivor. Every day the right has less credibility despite the scandalous black campaigns that they are able to sponsor.

The state of violence has allowed capitalism through dispossession that plundered Mexico's natural and human resources. It should not be surprising that the presidents of Mexico, the North American Security Agencies, and drug traffickers have deals and coordinate actions to regulate the flow of drugs that enters the United States. Since Adolfo López Mateos, Mexican presidents have had to be CIA agents. The serious thing is to give credibility in Mexico to the hypotheses of the North American propaganda regarding the links between emigration and drug trafficking, it is a lack of respect for those who leaving the country, still maintain support for their communities and families thanks to the nostalgia economy . If not for these resources, the market in various areas would collapse. Linking remittances with drug trafficking is a fallacious justification for moral Americans. its migrantologists have studied the matter in depth and have found no money laundering or arms purchases in the hundred dollars a week and / or fortnightly that the countrymen send to their people. It is a transfer that impacts in volume, but constitutes an ant money that hardly activates regional economies, contributing to the country's development. The failure of Sedesol's 3x1 public policy, created enthusiastically during the Vicente Fox period, indicates that these remittances are minimal and peculiar in their integration. They are resources that come to account drops to the expeller communities of emigrants and that little reduce the marginalization, poverty, chiefdom and gunfighting. There is the Mixteca Poblana as well as regions of Guanajuato, Jalisco, Zacatecas and Michoacán where remittances serve to survive the day.

The mention of both situations would not have much relation if there were not a third opinion, which has been repeated for some years: that criminal groups “inject” the Mexican economy through drug trafficking through alternative routes to banks, such as political parties, construction companies, film studios, sports, music events, etc., so that it cannot be traced whether the origin of said economic resources is legal or not. In parallel, just as the formal and informal economies have been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, activities related to the production and transfer of narcotic drugs, arms smuggling and money laundering, have experienced liberalization due to the approach on health issues. Which means that the demand for drugs in the United States is infinite and there is no way to regulate the supply. But that is the responsibility of the United States and the more than one hundred million addicts in its territory.

Mexico must think of models such as Costa Rica, Panama, Puerto Rico or Peru to approach US capitalism in a new way, since maintaining itself as a narco-state constitutes a dangerous choice that gives way to wild forms of US interventionism. As long as the primary sector, industry and public service are not developed properly, the economy of informality and crime will be the daily characteristics.

The anti-communist rage of the Mexican right and its absurd coup proposals must be canceled. The US support for AMLO implies that our country needs stability and to continue operating in conditions that do not irritate the Empire. In these times, for the United States, the Mexican right is more dangerous than the drug traffickers. Catholic nationalists are more rabid than the Taliban. The Mexican right needs to synchronize itself with the important changes brought about by the death of neoliberalism, the times of health governance and technological innovation. It is up to them to support López Obrador, their legitimate and legal president.

All three comments highlight Mexico's dependence on North America. While the United States will not come to solve Mexico's problems, it should consider whether keeping Mexico and Central America as its drug suppliers is productive in any sense. The United States and Mexico must think of a different form of economic, social, and political integration.