Tejas vs. Texas vs. the United States

 Tejas vs. Texas vs. the United States

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero

George Friedman's perspective on the conflict between Mexico and the United States projected for the year 2080, begins to develop some of its facets in the south of North America and particularly in Texas. The Lone Star State, like others in the American Union, is generating a disruptive dynamic in the face of the appearance of Donald Trump and his style of government; Texas, California and other entities are considering the exit from American federalism not only because of the differences with Trumpism but also because of the internal conflicts that have begun to develop.

Leopoldo Santos in La Jornada reviews, a few days ago, the historical movements of Mexican-Americans who crossed the border and have fought - politically and militarily - the WASP hegemony that does not respect their historical and contingent rights. Mexican-Americans, at least in the case of Texas, have been historically oppressed like the native North American Indians and almost driven to extermination as well; Their defense must have been reflected in the use of force and the conquest of civil rights through social movements. In addition to the evidence that Santos Ramírez proposes regarding Mexican-American guerrillas and nationalist secret societies for almost a century, it is also important to highlight the multiplication of clashes between cells of Mexican drug traffickers and American police that have begun to be publicized as a reaction of nationalism against the accusation of terrorism imposed by the American federal government. Similarly, the patriotic civil forces of WASP begin to fight against public forces that reject the Trumpist narrative and against any element that they consider a strange or alien member: foreigners, Mexicans, drug traffickers, zombies and reptilians. The Lone Star State begins to become irritated in its multiculturalism and the prognosis is reserved as Friedman stipulates, the forces in conflict are even.

Texas has its own history and Donald Trump has begun to break a balance that can cause the fracture of the United States. Mexamerica is not willing to remain any longer in the limbo that Octavio Paz placed it in; a nothingness that both Mexico and the United States have failed to take advantage of. The Mexican-American territory represents a culture that integrates the north of Mexico and the south of the United States; its emergence as a nation-state, as proposed by Joel Garreau, could activate the disintegration of North America and Mexico.

Trump faces internal dynamics that question the WASP hegemony and that are even willing to radically confront it. The demonstrations of Mexican migrants who demand their inclusion in the United States, the existence of Mexican-American guerrillas and the role of drug cartels in Texas, indicate a context that is not easy for Republican Trumpism. Multiculturalism in Texas represents a possibility of integration between Mexico and the United States that can provide positive elements for all parties. The United States' neglect of Mexican-Americans is also a sign that Mexico has abandoned immigrants and Americans of Mexican descent. The need for transnational public policies may imply the harmonization of economic, political, and social forces that have more elements in common than differences. Mexico's focus on Texas and the states where Mexican migrants and Mexican-Americans reside represents a historic opportunity for integration and peace with the United States.

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.