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This is a matter which must be addressed and it is my physical and willpower failure that have combined to delay my rigorous definition, attack, and other commentary about the "caravans", the winds of Latin America, the dullness of our President. The absolute uselessness of the lower house of Congress will persist for so long as the head of the Lower House can be charitably described as a deranged, rabid-bat brained, limousine-marxist, self-consumed nincompoop.
Two or three weeks ago, it was my duty and pleasure to go down and man the doors and gates of our "estate" in the middle of NoWhere, Mexico. While being a member of the Chronic and Pathological Hypochondriacs Union, this time El Gringo Viejo fell into a deep funk with chills and a very light fever. Coughing and excessive sinus discharge was incessant…loss of appetite…cold beyond comprehension (almost)…and an extended temperature of 40F existence for five days was enough to wear down the resistance of almost any real hypochondriac.
Thankfully, Alvaro had loaded the parlour with firewood, stacked neatly in the area of the "fogata" (fireplace) in anticipation of the forecasted inclimacy. During this weather episode, your humble servant filled a plastic 5 gallon bucket…twice with the ashes of a very small fireplace. This is a testament to my slight Jewish ancestry, ("Spend nothing, and save the rest.") and it was also good discipline. The forecasts both in Mexico and Texas pertaining to our area were "all over the map". There was no way to judge when warmth would return.
Driving back up after about a 10 day stay, my condition steadily deteriorated. A very slight fever and mountains of sinus congestion persisted in persisting. Wednesday last was the first day that my mettle has fully recovered to such an extent that I felt like strapping on the armour. Earlier to-day, perhaps it was yesterday, my friend and fellow Consuegro (two men who are fathers-in-law of a married pair (my daughter is married to his son, and his son is married to my daughter), revealed that he had been stuck in exactly the same mess. He is fighting other medical devils (successfully) and complains almost none at all about any health issue, but he was definitive about this particular plague.
We are both up to the challenge as of to-day and we shall be working in tandem to turn our grandchildren into human ladies and gentlemen. It helps to have wives who will shoulder the other stuff, like work, duties, responsibilities, and taking care of valued relatives who are even our seniors. (I did help my boss a little with the IRS…almost an hour…really. I even pushed the typewriter button to send our filing to the IRS electronically...)
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| Governance defined: "We shall have to vote for the Bill in order to find out what's inside the Bill." _______________________________ |
Thankfully, Alvaro had loaded the parlour with firewood, stacked neatly in the area of the "fogata" (fireplace) in anticipation of the forecasted inclimacy. During this weather episode, your humble servant filled a plastic 5 gallon bucket…twice with the ashes of a very small fireplace. This is a testament to my slight Jewish ancestry, ("Spend nothing, and save the rest.") and it was also good discipline. The forecasts both in Mexico and Texas pertaining to our area were "all over the map". There was no way to judge when warmth would return.
Driving back up after about a 10 day stay, my condition steadily deteriorated. A very slight fever and mountains of sinus congestion persisted in persisting. Wednesday last was the first day that my mettle has fully recovered to such an extent that I felt like strapping on the armour. Earlier to-day, perhaps it was yesterday, my friend and fellow Consuegro (two men who are fathers-in-law of a married pair (my daughter is married to his son, and his son is married to my daughter), revealed that he had been stuck in exactly the same mess. He is fighting other medical devils (successfully) and complains almost none at all about any health issue, but he was definitive about this particular plague.
We are both up to the challenge as of to-day and we shall be working in tandem to turn our grandchildren into human ladies and gentlemen. It helps to have wives who will shoulder the other stuff, like work, duties, responsibilities, and taking care of valued relatives who are even our seniors. (I did help my boss a little with the IRS…almost an hour…really. I even pushed the typewriter button to send our filing to the IRS electronically...)
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(1) CARAVANS:
A new way to sell advertising by the news media, be it by print, radio, television, or illuminated blimp is to account breathlessly about the "caravans". This is the phenomena of people from Central America coming up on foot to seek a better life. In Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, in spite of the utterly astounding abundance of gold, silver, fish, timber, tropical fruit, exotic tourist potential and beaches beyond belief, and common to highly advance crafts of museum level, the lower 50% of the body politic is stuck in the cultural quicksand of drug and gang activity that now extends deep into the fabric of the United States and other countries as well. The Central American cultural plague presented by the Mara Salvatrucha XIII and the Callejon 18 gangs have proliferated through Mexico and now fully ensconced in the United State and several other countries.
To be succinct, these two groups and their subordinate gangs have essentially displaced, in terms of importance in the criminal world, the Mexican Mafia and the Aryan Nations and their disciples. The Mara Salvatrucha and the Callejon organisations recruit and compel 10 and 12 year old males of Latin origin…now into Texas, New Jersey, New York, Maryland, California, Georgia, and other States in the United States, and even now extending into Canada…to qualify as a Mara by raping and killing their sisters and mothers. Introduction into the group requires, frequently, an expression of willingness to fight the entire local gang until consciousness is lost or the recruit is dead. All property of the recruit's family that can be sold or pawned is demanded of the new recruit in many cases.
These males are coming over with lists of girls and their babies, as well as notes concerning "whether Maria is pregnant or not" when leaving Nicaragua. When finally crossing over in the darkness of night…or walking around the checkpoints such as the Sarita and Falfurrias Border Patrol installations on US77 and US281 respectively they take advantage of the weaker females at their merest whim.
Last year alone, for example a minimum of almost 200 people died trying to "trek around" those facilities. The ground is super-sandy and almost untroddable. In the Summer, ground temperatures can range from 105 - 120 degrees easily. Women and very young girls are raped without apology and their underwear displayed on the thorny mesquite trees for the next groups to see. Wild Hogs and male Javalinas kill and sometimes eat the "migrants" even during the pitiable human's last seconds of life.
Last year alone, for example a minimum of almost 200 people died trying to "trek around" those facilities. The ground is super-sandy and almost untroddable. In the Summer, ground temperatures can range from 105 - 120 degrees easily. Women and very young girls are raped without apology and their underwear displayed on the thorny mesquite trees for the next groups to see. Wild Hogs and male Javalinas kill and sometimes eat the "migrants" even during the pitiable human's last seconds of life.
Scores of these people have died, essentially oven-baked in the back of an 18 wheeler's trailer, sitting under the Summer Texas sun. This happens at times when a "driver" gets cold feet and cuts and runs towards the dawn, leaving his "cargo" behind. The trailer is left in a parking lot of a shopping centre or similar.
There have been numerous repetitions of this event, an it has brought us hundreds of "baked illegal aliens". We find no humour in any of it. Children are involved, always as well as females, and of course, the "guys just looking for opportunity".
There have been numerous repetitions of this event, an it has brought us hundreds of "baked illegal aliens". We find no humour in any of it. Children are involved, always as well as females, and of course, the "guys just looking for opportunity".
These are not the people who were refugees of the Mexican Revolution (1910 -1917) or the Cristeros War (1922 - 1926) that followed that Revolution. These are not the Braceros and Wetbacks (legals and river-swimmers) of the 1940s or 1950s, or even the lamentable invasion of those taking legal and ultra-extra-legal advantage of the Amnesty in the late 1980s. The people coming towards us now, are in a Tsunami that might well spell the end of our common-law Republican Democracy. They do not come for opportunity.
They come for anchorbabyism. They do not come for much beyond free medical, free food, free legal, free school, free housing, and free whatever and free everything…and free things to steal.
(2) Press - Caravan Collusion:
The following is a set of recent observations and thoughts that will give insight into the nature of what is going on along the Texas - Mexican Frontier and the Republic of Mexico during these times.
Without pause we begin with the ridiculous matter of the "caravans" of people trundling their way to the north and the promised land of free milk and honey.
Once again, It is a leftist-press begotten farce. Forty per cent of the adult participants are ardent criminals…thieves, murderers, extortionists, Mara Salvatrucha XIII and Callejon 18. Camera operators and the obsolete, complicit leftist media are careful to accentuate the "mothers and their children" as the groups trundle, beg, steal, pilfer, demand, and scheme their movement northward. They are indirectly subsidised by various leftist organisations…frequently Soros-fronts and/or United Nations operative agencies along with pointedly marxist, seditionist, anti-American activists.
The above picture presents Irineo Mujico, well-known and self-declared communist who is one of the chief operatives on the ground in the Pueblos Sin Fronteras (Peoples without Frontiers) world-wide movement. This organisation alone has shadowed millions of dollars into this recent effort to degrade the American population with people who will come to demand complete government support. The men surrounding him are likely lieutenants who are receiving marching orders for to-day, for instance. Almost all the "women with dependent children and infants" are actually scurrying little "trojan horses" making a bee-line to the nearest cell where AFDC can be arranged. They are not refugees, and they are not migrants, and they are immigrants.
They are invaders and parasites almost in their entirety.
(3) Elizabeth Warren:
As this horrid woman began to move into the upper stories of the ivied towers of America's finest universities, she declared that she was the re-incarnation of Pocahontas and had had a vision and a photo from the Sunday Native American section of the New York Times showing the Princess receiving honours and a peace pipe from Sitting Bull. Cochise and Crazy Horse had brought her Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh for the 53rd Annual celebration of her first birthday.
It was a sad moment when the Lone Ranger and Tonto rode up just moments too late to intervene in the Ceremony of the Holy Bologna. There was no recourse beyond accepting the fact that Elizabeth Warren was in Truth, Fact, and the American Weigh, Pocahontas.
At every turn, Pocahontas would admonish her lessers, reminding them that she had obtained the official recognition by (and this is true) declaring her Pocahontacity by receiving a special financial salary supplement allocation along with her regular salary as an entry-level college teacher simply by saying she was Pocahontas.
In Truth, Pocahontas did not say she was or had been or still was Pocahontas. Pocahontas finally declared that she had been told by her auntie and mommy that that her Scandinavian high cheek-bones were a sure indication that she was part Cherokee. That is the truth of the issue. And by using this highly centrifuged, advanced scientific approach to human genomic genealogy, she decided to take the highly warranted additional "historical racial discrimination recompense pay" allowed by the condescending Palefaces in charge of the snotty, arrogant Ivory Tower - Ivy League marxist-dominated universities. This is proof beyond all other proofs that Pocahontas was and is actually Pocahontas, and this analysis proves it even further: Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribal nations in the Tsenacommacah, encompassing the Tidewater region of Virginia.
Powhatan, to this day, continues to drive a taxicab in Lower Manhattan ten hours per day, six days a week. Powhatan had been a Lion-tamer for a major circus and an astronaut on the Saturn expedition. But, he failed to check the box "Real Injun" on his last employment evaluation, and therefore had been left out of many opportunities.
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(2) Press - Caravan Collusion:
The following is a set of recent observations and thoughts that will give insight into the nature of what is going on along the Texas - Mexican Frontier and the Republic of Mexico during these times.
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The above picture presents Irineo Mujico, well-known and self-declared communist who is one of the chief operatives on the ground in the Pueblos Sin Fronteras (Peoples without Frontiers) world-wide movement. This organisation alone has shadowed millions of dollars into this recent effort to degrade the American population with people who will come to demand complete government support. The men surrounding him are likely lieutenants who are receiving marching orders for to-day, for instance. Almost all the "women with dependent children and infants" are actually scurrying little "trojan horses" making a bee-line to the nearest cell where AFDC can be arranged. They are not refugees, and they are not migrants, and they are immigrants.
They are invaders and parasites almost in their entirety.
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(3) Elizabeth Warren:
As this horrid woman began to move into the upper stories of the ivied towers of America's finest universities, she declared that she was the re-incarnation of Pocahontas and had had a vision and a photo from the Sunday Native American section of the New York Times showing the Princess receiving honours and a peace pipe from Sitting Bull. Cochise and Crazy Horse had brought her Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh for the 53rd Annual celebration of her first birthday.
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| United States Senator - Pocahontas (aka - Elizabeth Warren) ______________________________ |
At every turn, Pocahontas would admonish her lessers, reminding them that she had obtained the official recognition by (and this is true) declaring her Pocahontacity by receiving a special financial salary supplement allocation along with her regular salary as an entry-level college teacher simply by saying she was Pocahontas.
In Truth, Pocahontas did not say she was or had been or still was Pocahontas. Pocahontas finally declared that she had been told by her auntie and mommy that that her Scandinavian high cheek-bones were a sure indication that she was part Cherokee. That is the truth of the issue. And by using this highly centrifuged, advanced scientific approach to human genomic genealogy, she decided to take the highly warranted additional "historical racial discrimination recompense pay" allowed by the condescending Palefaces in charge of the snotty, arrogant Ivory Tower - Ivy League marxist-dominated universities. This is proof beyond all other proofs that Pocahontas was and is actually Pocahontas, and this analysis proves it even further: Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribal nations in the Tsenacommacah, encompassing the Tidewater region of Virginia.
Powhatan, to this day, continues to drive a taxicab in Lower Manhattan ten hours per day, six days a week. Powhatan had been a Lion-tamer for a major circus and an astronaut on the Saturn expedition. But, he failed to check the box "Real Injun" on his last employment evaluation, and therefore had been left out of many opportunities.
(In truth, Powhatan was probably among the top five most powerful Indian leaders / kings of the eastern half of what would become known as the New World. He was profoundly athletic and quick of mind.)
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(4) The Myth of El Chapo's Grand Trove - The legend of El Chapo has much testimony in the famous "corridos". Corridos are songs generally recounting historical and/or social events commonly sung, recorded, and archived in what can be styled Northern Mexican cowboy music…a form of periodical and recent historical relation…fairly un-inspired music that is highly and tightly limited in musical expression, well-played, well-sung even if too-sharp of close harmony, simple and hard hitting musical images (- https://youtu.be/BwrKjmc9xT4 -).
He did not escape from that point, although he knew that he was going to be extradited to Gringolandia at any time.
The truth is that El Chapo - Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera - does not and never has had a 17 billion dollar kitty. It could be that he has handled and dealt through that amount of money. But, he was and is not Mr. Magic Money Man. When people guffaw about how he walks in and out of prisons with his American Express Gold Card and a Diamond Hacksaw, I wait for the laughing to stop. Then I remind the folks that Joaquin has been in prison three times…and he has escaped twice. Not a terribly good record for a master escape artist.
He is presently a guest of the Gringos in fancy courtrooms and a fairly nice, somewhat clean maximum prison in the United States. On his third incarceration in Mexico, Joaquin was placed in a 2nd - level, relatively shabby, albeit a relatively well-run place. It was a common, low-felony type prison in Ciudad Juarez, quite neat the Cd. Juarez - El Paso border.
He is presently a guest of the Gringos in fancy courtrooms and a fairly nice, somewhat clean maximum prison in the United States. On his third incarceration in Mexico, Joaquin was placed in a 2nd - level, relatively shabby, albeit a relatively well-run place. It was a common, low-felony type prison in Ciudad Juarez, quite neat the Cd. Juarez - El Paso border.
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| Nicolas Ortega Friendly Socialist Dictator Friend and facilitator of El Chapo Famed for that certain manly beauty and his Socialist Doctrine which reads, "Me grabb-um every centavo me can reach-um! Me luv Fidel" _________________________ |
He has complained about his accommodations in the United States continuously since arrival. When his trials are over, his wife and attorneys will have whatever cash is left over and/or secreted in various places around the world.
It is usually to be found in the Caymans, Jamaica, Switzerland, Argentina, and such places that welcome special deposits with real, live legal papers of propriety and financial compliance, and honourable names like Mr. Yas U. Arphat. Places where nice, refined , and important people put their money…important people like Hugo Chavez, Fidel and Raul Castro, Nicolas Maduro Moro, Nicolas Ortega, Yas U. Arphat, Mr. William Jefferson Hamilton ex-US Congressman of Hurricane Katrina fame, and Billy Jeff Blythe, husband of (Sir Edmund) Hillary Dontremember.
One has to admire a guy like El Chapo because of all of his work in population control and, of course, his assistance in training Mexican medical personnel in traumatology, gun-shot wound intervention, and the many civic and industrial compounds and University endowments he has made.
His establishment of a nation-wide system of refuges for lost, abandoned, or lonely dogs and cats, as well as certain other lovable furry animals. represents a high water mark for Mexican and other Latin-American pharmaceutical engineers and transportationists in their quest for a better to-morrow.
And, of course, we have to think about all those other projects that El Chapo has done to improve the physical plants of so many local communities…not the least of which are the schools and factories, and churches, and sporting stadiums…and the Great Observatory…the Underwater Sea Colonisation Initiative and everything…simply amazing.
We are beginning to be able to assess some of the smokey, hazy notions of the AMLO trademark concerning patience, power, and prerogative and the mind and motive of AMLO. We are aware that our followers, friends, and visitors like to study our comments and frequently have more than just a little interest in our "other point of view" concerning Mexican politics and political personalities. As most folks know, El Gringo Viejo is able to reasonable pontificate and drone on about the most minuscule of detail about scores and scores of current and historical potentates of Mexico. He can also drone on about issues, both above and below the surface, concerning Mexico's past, present, and future.
We have tried to be reserved since we do have an obviously rightwing inclination concerning political, cultural, and religious matters. President Lopez has a decidedly leftist - populist accent to his political approach. That is his core disposition. He has tried to form a "private cabinet" of nine or so men who truly represent the broad spectrum of left - centrist - right. He can do this because his party "La Morena" (La Morena can mean "dark-skinned girl, but actually it is an anagram for La Movimiento de la Renovacion Nacional ) actually does hold an outright majority in the Lower House of Congress (Heroica Camera de Diputados del Congreso de la Republica de Mexico). By a simple coalition MORENA also holds a coalition majority in the upper chamber (El Senado de la Republica) of 70 - 59. Such an occurrence is astoundingly stupefying to this observer.
President Lopez-Obrador during the past ten days, however, has become a bit more instructive about his mission. He did, essentially, an about face concerning offering work-permits to the Central Americans since many who accepted them, worked a bit but then became "tired" and indifferent after three or four days on the job. The vast majority returned to the caravan or sought out dives and holes in barrios dedicated to criminal pursuits and lethargy.
President Lopez declared early on that he was establishing a 90,000 troop National Guard that would serve as a national uniformed police / military-style group designed to do social outreach and organised crime penetration and eradication. He inferred that the National Guard would be advanced in systems of forensics as well as social intermediation. The use of the National Guard as he had envisioned became laughable, finally, when it became apparent that it would require a minimum of three years to bring into any reasonable military order. It would also require, by all estimates, foreign and domestic, conservative or radical theoretical approach, at least 300,000 troops. They were especially challenged because each soldier would have had to been combat ready, psychologically train in counselling and personality repair, highway and crowd control, long barrel and short barrel weapons proficiency, collegiate level intellectual accomplishment.
The conditions and admonitions and expectations were at best testing the edges and at worst, ridiculously impossible. While this proposal is floating around in Congress, and there is some willingness to forge some kind of civilian / military force, President Lopez suddenly turns a full 180 about-face and orders the Naval Infantry into Tijuana, Baja California to quell cartel violence and to control the "migrants" who have become increasingly unruly during the last few days.
While the Naval Infantry was called in with 2,400 actives, the Army was ordered in by the President, thereby bringing something like an equal number to the far east side of the City of Tijuana. On top of that was the "federal civilian police", a creation of the previous President, and sent into the centre of Ciudad Juarez to establish forced tranquility in the downtown-most part of Ciudad Juarez. This would mean about 7,000 A-minus level (international / American standards) troops in a 30 square mile area of a city with a 1,600,000 present population.
Although the ragged-out cartels cannot really stand up to the above-presented military force, they might try. They would lose again, and return to the "melting away" tactic of disappearing for a couple of months or more before returning to the incessant assaulting of rival gangs until they again tire and rest. Lamentably, there is no will at any level of any political party or coalition of political parties in Mexico to commit to a total eradication of the Cartel people, such as what has taken place in Colombia in northern South America.
While the Frente Armada de la Revolucion Colombiana (FARC) is even less than a shell of its former self, its "revolutionary military posture" still has some unjustifiable and unrealistic sense of importance, like a straggly old tomcat that in his prime had been the cat o'the walk, but who now is just a shell and shambles of his former self.
It is apparent to me that AMLO entered the Los Pinos Compound (Presidential Retreat and compound in the middle of the District Federal ) with the idea that he would forge a combination of philosophies, weld a consensus, and rule a Mexico of homogeneity and concurrence, while the lamb lay down by the lion. That governing principle will not see the light of 2 January 2020. There will be marches, inter-leftist confrontations, more boulevard-blocking marches, boulevard blockages at nighttime hours in the centre of Mexico City, and low-level violence breaking out before the half-way mark of this administration. There will also be incessant calls for higher taxes on the middle-class and the wealthy and upon the middle and heavy industries, and calls for the abolition of the "white unions" (usually much more businesslike and business friendly, even while doing a creditable job provided union benefits, personal and group representation, and generally just being more of an employees' club and advocate).
Interesting times await us. More later…perhaps to-morrow.
El Gringo Viejo
It is usually to be found in the Caymans, Jamaica, Switzerland, Argentina, and such places that welcome special deposits with real, live legal papers of propriety and financial compliance, and honourable names like Mr. Yas U. Arphat. Places where nice, refined , and important people put their money…important people like Hugo Chavez, Fidel and Raul Castro, Nicolas Maduro Moro, Nicolas Ortega, Yas U. Arphat, Mr. William Jefferson Hamilton ex-US Congressman of Hurricane Katrina fame, and Billy Jeff Blythe, husband of (Sir Edmund) Hillary Dontremember.
One has to admire a guy like El Chapo because of all of his work in population control and, of course, his assistance in training Mexican medical personnel in traumatology, gun-shot wound intervention, and the many civic and industrial compounds and University endowments he has made.
His establishment of a nation-wide system of refuges for lost, abandoned, or lonely dogs and cats, as well as certain other lovable furry animals. represents a high water mark for Mexican and other Latin-American pharmaceutical engineers and transportationists in their quest for a better to-morrow.
And, of course, we have to think about all those other projects that El Chapo has done to improve the physical plants of so many local communities…not the least of which are the schools and factories, and churches, and sporting stadiums…and the Great Observatory…the Underwater Sea Colonisation Initiative and everything…simply amazing.
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(5) Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador:
We are beginning to be able to assess some of the smokey, hazy notions of the AMLO trademark concerning patience, power, and prerogative and the mind and motive of AMLO. We are aware that our followers, friends, and visitors like to study our comments and frequently have more than just a little interest in our "other point of view" concerning Mexican politics and political personalities. As most folks know, El Gringo Viejo is able to reasonable pontificate and drone on about the most minuscule of detail about scores and scores of current and historical potentates of Mexico. He can also drone on about issues, both above and below the surface, concerning Mexico's past, present, and future.
We have tried to be reserved since we do have an obviously rightwing inclination concerning political, cultural, and religious matters. President Lopez has a decidedly leftist - populist accent to his political approach. That is his core disposition. He has tried to form a "private cabinet" of nine or so men who truly represent the broad spectrum of left - centrist - right. He can do this because his party "La Morena" (La Morena can mean "dark-skinned girl, but actually it is an anagram for La Movimiento de la Renovacion Nacional ) actually does hold an outright majority in the Lower House of Congress (Heroica Camera de Diputados del Congreso de la Republica de Mexico). By a simple coalition MORENA also holds a coalition majority in the upper chamber (El Senado de la Republica) of 70 - 59. Such an occurrence is astoundingly stupefying to this observer.
President Lopez-Obrador during the past ten days, however, has become a bit more instructive about his mission. He did, essentially, an about face concerning offering work-permits to the Central Americans since many who accepted them, worked a bit but then became "tired" and indifferent after three or four days on the job. The vast majority returned to the caravan or sought out dives and holes in barrios dedicated to criminal pursuits and lethargy.
President Lopez declared early on that he was establishing a 90,000 troop National Guard that would serve as a national uniformed police / military-style group designed to do social outreach and organised crime penetration and eradication. He inferred that the National Guard would be advanced in systems of forensics as well as social intermediation. The use of the National Guard as he had envisioned became laughable, finally, when it became apparent that it would require a minimum of three years to bring into any reasonable military order. It would also require, by all estimates, foreign and domestic, conservative or radical theoretical approach, at least 300,000 troops. They were especially challenged because each soldier would have had to been combat ready, psychologically train in counselling and personality repair, highway and crowd control, long barrel and short barrel weapons proficiency, collegiate level intellectual accomplishment.
The conditions and admonitions and expectations were at best testing the edges and at worst, ridiculously impossible. While this proposal is floating around in Congress, and there is some willingness to forge some kind of civilian / military force, President Lopez suddenly turns a full 180 about-face and orders the Naval Infantry into Tijuana, Baja California to quell cartel violence and to control the "migrants" who have become increasingly unruly during the last few days.
While the Naval Infantry was called in with 2,400 actives, the Army was ordered in by the President, thereby bringing something like an equal number to the far east side of the City of Tijuana. On top of that was the "federal civilian police", a creation of the previous President, and sent into the centre of Ciudad Juarez to establish forced tranquility in the downtown-most part of Ciudad Juarez. This would mean about 7,000 A-minus level (international / American standards) troops in a 30 square mile area of a city with a 1,600,000 present population.
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| Poor Old Tom (but don't feel too bad…this one was taken from a shelter and given a 'forever' home and the result is in the inset) |
Although the ragged-out cartels cannot really stand up to the above-presented military force, they might try. They would lose again, and return to the "melting away" tactic of disappearing for a couple of months or more before returning to the incessant assaulting of rival gangs until they again tire and rest. Lamentably, there is no will at any level of any political party or coalition of political parties in Mexico to commit to a total eradication of the Cartel people, such as what has taken place in Colombia in northern South America.
While the Frente Armada de la Revolucion Colombiana (FARC) is even less than a shell of its former self, its "revolutionary military posture" still has some unjustifiable and unrealistic sense of importance, like a straggly old tomcat that in his prime had been the cat o'the walk, but who now is just a shell and shambles of his former self.
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| Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador President - United States of Mexico |
It is apparent to me that AMLO entered the Los Pinos Compound (Presidential Retreat and compound in the middle of the District Federal ) with the idea that he would forge a combination of philosophies, weld a consensus, and rule a Mexico of homogeneity and concurrence, while the lamb lay down by the lion. That governing principle will not see the light of 2 January 2020. There will be marches, inter-leftist confrontations, more boulevard-blocking marches, boulevard blockages at nighttime hours in the centre of Mexico City, and low-level violence breaking out before the half-way mark of this administration. There will also be incessant calls for higher taxes on the middle-class and the wealthy and upon the middle and heavy industries, and calls for the abolition of the "white unions" (usually much more businesslike and business friendly, even while doing a creditable job provided union benefits, personal and group representation, and generally just being more of an employees' club and advocate).
Interesting times await us. More later…perhaps to-morrow.
El Gringo Viejo
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(brief addenda) It is of interest the high number of Presidents of Mexico whose paternal surname is Lopez. Starting from the front and working backwards, we have Andres Lopez Obrador (1), then Jose Lopez Portillo (2), then Adolfo Lopez Mateos (3) just to start. Then we can go back to nearly the beginning of the Presidential continuation…with the famous (infamous) Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrun, also known by to-day's nomination Antonio Lopez.
We shall run down some more Lopez's later.
El Gringo Viejo
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