Basic Truths About the Falsities of the Central American "Migrants"

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    The following points are seldom reported.  It is vogue in these times to disregard the truth and to embrace the falsity.  The following is a representation of why the invasion being conducted now across the southern frontier of the Republic of Texas and the United States of America is an accurate grouping of truthful  facts.  Such information is not and/or cannot be                                    broadcast, printed up in news released, or apparently even be mentioned in public places.

     Our nation is evolving into an emasculated social-democracy, quickly retreating into a mindset of accommodation, paying blackmail, sealing our lips that used to speak the truth, of feeling guilt for being successful and self-supporting.   Dark clouds have formed on the near horizon, and those clouds move ever closer with the lightning bolts of judgement and ruin.

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This is not a "Migrant" situation   -   migration comes and goes, as do the birds of
 the season.   The vast majority of these people coming up do not intend to return.

(1)     First and foremost, the people flooding up from the Central American states of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua are not "migrants".   They are in my best estimate composed of 80 per cent intentional invaders, parasitic invaders, and criminal invaders.   Being very liberal, there might be five (5) per cent who are legitimately seeking immigrant status and permanent adjustment of citizenship to something that is truly American.  But, even that figure is probably too liberal.

     

     (a)    Intentional invaders are those who arrive just to see what advantage they can take.

    (b)   Parasitic invaders are those who, with malice aforethought, enter the United States in the condition of pregnancy, or to become pregnant.
          Parasitic invaders are the ones who actually hope to gain or keep membership in an anti-social "pandilla" (gang) such as the Mara Salvatrucha 13 or Callejon 18, or one of the scores of farm-teams that co-ordinate with the larger menace.  Crime is fun, and it pays a lot, and it allows a person to hate Americans and kill and wound them…and then you die.  It's a good life.

         And there are the lone-wolf criminal Parasitics who specialise as single or very small cell operators…holding up primarily convenience stores and stealing motor cars.

   (c)  People from the aforementioned nations who are hunting down other fellow citizens who promised to send money back to repay a loan, or who stole something from a friend or relative before sneaking away from home under cover of darkness and heading north.

  (d)  It is difficult for commonly decent people to comprehend that, especially in terms of El Salvador and Honduras, one-third or more of the male population is directly involved in criminal activity.   Once they arrive onto United States soil, they will be shadowed and before 90 days has passed in Newark or Chattanooga or Oneida or Dalhart they will be given a choice to become involved with the gang or face the consequences (death or serious disfigurement).   The females will fare little better…most of them will be shadowed by madams and "padrotes"and a large percentage will be involved in prostitution within 24 months.

Our humble little mud hut

   (e)   Each reader of this Broadside must accept this Apologia:

                    The writer is a person who has property in Mexico.  My wife and I went through considerable efforts, formalities, deposits of considerable amount, payments for purchase of significance,  and quite legal payments as required by the law and the Notary Public endorsements (an NP in Mexico is similar to what might be called a lawyer / judge with authority of record over transactions of considerable value).

     We have paid the taxes, improved the property, and been a positive inclusion in the locale where we built our home. The writer is a person who did considerable University study  as well as life experience and business in Mexico.  We  remain constant in staying fresh concerning matters pertaining Mexico and Latin America, (especially Mexico).  He is the fourth in generation, beginning in the 1880s, of people who invested and relied in and upon Mexico and Mexicans.

     His wife, and therefore his children and grandchildren, are both colonial Spanish (1580s- Monclova - Carvajal y de la Cueva) and Texian (Escandon period - north of the Rio Bravo - 1760), and by her my grandchildren are 15th generation Texian.  By this writer they are 7th or 8th, at this point I lose count.   We are not immigrants to New England or Espana Nueva.  We were and are colonials.

     We are definitively not racists or bigots. We are Caucasian.  It is neither blessing nor curse.  It is simply from whence we came…we have been here since the first batch of ships sailed.  It is not our fault, it is not our blessing, nor is it a curse upon us.   What we are witnessing here in the McAllen and Hidalgo County area of Southernmost Texas is a tragedy and an insult to the most profound  degree.  It is a sacrilege…it is an arrogance that consumes people so presumido that they think the law pertaineth not to them… that their specialness is somehow greater than that of the people who are here and who have helped in every flood, earthquake, and contretemps that has transpired.
     And now we are beset upon by people who have ruined three beautiful countries and turned them into ruin and avarice.
    Nicaragua will fall next, due to the stupidity and corruption of the Ortega Brand.   Take over a country with a strong man (Samoza) who is arrogant, if well meaning, drive him out, murder him with a hired gun in the United States, and then put Nicaragua on the downhill track with the Ortega Brand.
    Nicaragua is full of gold, oil, fish, tourism, vegetable and tropical fruit farming, silver, stunning geographic, Oh Mien Gott!!  And guess what…it is becoming the new Honduras. 

    It is like Puerto Rico…the corruptos corrupt everything before, during, and after the hurricane…and then blame their own sloth, stupidity, corruption, and vice on…Trump?
        Truly a wonderland comes upon us.  

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Corrections must be made.
   The idea of receiving anyone coming up to the frontier of Texas
 or the United States without an entrance Visa in hand that has been issued by the American
Embassy or appropriate consular office of the United States of America is insulting.

(2)     There will be no improvement even when the above conditions are cured, as if by miracle.  The reason nothing will be permanently cured is because of the curse of the notion of Sanctity of Nativity on Terra Americanus Sanctus.   The notion that a female of the species can come across the Rio Grande and stagger into a midwifery and whelp…and thereby qualify as being the mother of a United States of America or Republic of Texas person is patently offensive.
     
     (a)     The simple passage of a statute rescinding this legal regulation will eradicate the parasitical, bloodsucking tidal wave of girls and women coming here to whelp, and thereby gain Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), rental subsidies or free housing, SNAP (food stamps) the famous feed-the-fat programme, free schooling (meals included) beginning at pre-kindergarten until the child drops out and/or joins a pandilla (gang), MedicAide, and various other "free" goodies they can shake down the politicians who then shake down the productive class so that slobs, invaders, and parasites can live "free".
       And before the sensitive and caring class cries foul and puffs up with indignation, the above scenario is exactly what happened with the last amnesty, during the latter part of the 1980s…right along with "chain-migration", whereby the third cousin of the mistress of a person's great-uncle's fourth common-law wife somehow qualifies to come in under the "Family Umbrella".

      (b)        Anyone who is intercepted after illegally crossing the International Boundary between Canada or Mexico and the United States or Texas will be guilty of illegal entry.   All foreigners and returning Americans and/or Texans must report through established ports of entry. This same requirement is enforced by the Mexicans for their Republic and the Canadians for their Dominion.
    A further set of conditions should, must, and will be:
                    

...that there be no application, verbally or otherwise, for "amnesty".

…that there will be no deferred adjudication with a date given for return for

a hearing by magistrate.   Agents of the Customs and Immigration and / or the

Border Patrol will determine the time and place and manner of repatriation, not

adjudication.   To the extent possible the illegal alien(s) will depart for home in

three days.   

                                                                              

…that there be no guarantee of any kind concerning children…Any child whose

adult companion(s) cannot demonstrate proof of parentage or legal authority for                                                      

minor child will be removed into protective, and perhaps permanent, custody.

Undeniable extraction of DNA samples will be made without exception.

…any funds or valuables borne by the offending illegal alien will be removed

from the possession of the offender and used to pay for repatriation to his/her

country origin.   Any remaining value will be forwarded via Western Union.

…the attempt to return or to file for a visa during the subsequent five years to the

initial expulsion and repatriation order will result in that person being declared

a persona non grata in perpetuum …no if's, and's or but's.                                          

     (c)      Furthermore, the fact is the great majority of the Latin element in Texas that is legally naturalised, native-born and/or of colonial extraction in Texas are fuming about these accommodations.   The Mexican who came in during the various Wars and served and chose the option of taking American citizenship due to military service, the native born people of Mexican / Spanish ancestry, and the people who went through the arduous studies and expenses to gain that coveted Naturalisation Certificate (a truly imposing and elegant document meaning much) are fuming about these arrogant invaders who see themselves as entitled to other people's assets.

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    We include the list below,  with the names of certain entities to be considered by the reader.  One might notice the grouping of Roman Catholic and Jesuit or Jesuit-related organisations.   All those using the term  Catholic or Roman Catholic or Jesuit are members of the Liberation Theology movement…as is the most recently elevated Pope.  The group Pop No'J is a secular cultural organisation, and seems to be more dedicated to developing a strong Mayan culture integrated with the general culture in Guatemala.  I find no real marxist positioning or leftist agenda with that organisation.   All the rest, including the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation, which is virulently anti-American and pro-socialist / marxist, are actively helping push the idea of "storming the American border".

     We have taken clips and phrases from their own words, taken from a newspaper article published very recently.   The entire article was pretty much oriented towards the point that the poverty and disorder in Central America was due to the gluttony of the American public and the existence of Climate Destroying industry and the indolence of the billionaires and millionaires. 

(a)     Smugglers often paint a misleading picture about conditions on the U.S.-Mexico border and U.S. immigration laws, says Carlos López, who manages a migrant shelter in Guatemala City run by the Catholic Scalabrinian Missionaries.

(b)    “Many people left because the coyotes said that children were an entry pass,” said Agradeli Martínez, whose father, Justo, left in March for the U.S. with her 14-year-old sister.

(c)       Some 1.3 million people in Guatemala were affected between June and August by the severe drought, according to the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organisation.   “We can’t underestimate the impact of recent droughts in the region to explain why people are leaving. Climate change is a factor,” says Úrsula Roldán, an immigration expert at Guatemala’s Rafael Landívar University.

(d)     Guatemalans tend to avoid caravans because they know Mexico better, migration experts say.     “They are invisible in Mexico,” says Andrea Villaseñor, head of the Mexican chapter of the Jesuit Refugee Service, which provides shelter and aid to migrants across the world.

     “Most Guatemalans keep traveling the traditional way, with smugglers. That makes it more difficult for Mexican authorities to detect them,” says Juan José Hurtado, the head of Pop Noj, a pro-migrant nonprofit.

(e)     They also have stronger family networks in the U.S., and relatives willing to help with money to hire coyotes. They go straight from southern Mexico to U.S. border crossings without relying on shelters as much as other migrants, says Joanna Williams of the Kino Border Initiative, a binational Catholic organization that aids migrants in Arizona and the Mexican border state of Sonora.

(f)     Mexico is struggling to contain a surge of Central American migrants making their way to the U.S. border that has been fuelled by a softening of Mexican migration policies and a severe drought in Guatemala, something that is no longer totally true.

(g)     Every day, during times of normalcy, two or three million Mexicans come across the international boundary.   They come from the organised classes, they have their American Entry permit Visa, they have a Credencial Electoral Federal, and the Pasaporte de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos in hand…

     They come in, go about their business, and cause no real problem.  Some stay longer, some go to Las Vegas or Disneyland, some just spend a day or maybe three, shopping the malls and the nice downtown area of McAllen.  During Holy Week, South Padre Island changes its name to San Pedro Island, so named because San Pedro de Garza Garcia is the suburban city adjacent to Monterrey where 500,000 millionaires and billionaires live…it is the wealthiest city in Latin America.   Albeit a bit arrogant, they are also quite friendly and open and inclusive…they are "migrants" because they come and go by the seasons … or the three and four day weekends.

     The Monterrey metroplex is about 5,000,000 strong.  About 10% are stunningly wealthy.  About 70% are in various positions of the middle-class…blue-collar, technicians, doctors, teachers, small business, huge business and so forth.  It is a very industrious place.   Similar places are Tampico metroplex, Saltillo, Torreon, Ciudad Victoria, San Luis Potosi, just to name a very, very few.

    The Monterrey metroplex is not a perfect place.  However, it is a really nice place to be.   The people groan and complain continuously, but sometimes I have to point out to them how far they have come in a relatively short period of time. 

 This is a downtown-most view of Monterrey
 very Centre - the Macro Plaza - with the emblem
 Cerro de la Silla (Saddleback Mountain) and
 the Cathedral to the right.  It is said that on
 any given Sunday there might be 1,000,000
 people enjoy the 99 acre downtown Plaza.

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    The bar becomes quiet, but then they start again. "The Gringo is right.  But we still have to keep complaining.  It's only the squeaky wheel that gets the grease."   And that is the realistic nature of the people.  It is said that Monterrey began to separate from the Third World back in the 1890s after a huge cholera epidemic.   The Grand Poobahs of the area…all Spanish / Jewish industrialists and English engineers, decided to install a pure, potable water system throughout all the cities of what is known as the "Regiomontano" (Mountainous Kingdom).   Part of that installation included the establishment of a brewery…Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc…that provided a very decent beer by the name of Carta Blanca.  It is still brewed to this day.  The Business, part of a family held conglomerate, has bought and owns several Beer trademarks, and it continues to produce the old fashioned stuff.   Along with Carta Blanca,  there is are other brands and recipes that have been incorporated over the years.   Among are labels such as Tecate, Bohemia, and Victoria and a few others.  The Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc is a multi-billion dollar operation that is affiliated with the "Grupo Alfa", a combination of seven or eight huge industries with similar sales characteristics.  It is good to remember, for instance, that Cementos Mexicanos is the largest cement operation in the World, and its home is Monterrey.

 This to the left is a scene on the west side of the Monterrey Metroplex.   It is the Chipinque part of that section of the Sierra Madre Oriental Mountain  range.    Oddly enough, the view being seen actually is looking  over the "Seven Cities" and the entire metroplex.
     It is part of the contradictions one runs across when  travelling or doing business in Mexico…whether it be the North or the Central or the Indian areas or the Mestizo and/or White areas.    It behooves one to take seriously the advice of the old blowhard down at the end of the bar when he says,"Whenever you hear someone say, 'All Mexicans…'…one should stop listening."   In my opinion that advice was well rendered and has served me during my travels and interaction with people who have very different and very similar positions and attitudes as the Gringos in general.

Chicken Little and the Never Ending Threat: We are all going to die because of Global Warming, Climate Change, and the Coming Ice Age

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         It is fairly well established fact in to-day's Academia that the World came to an end sometime around 1996 or so.  AlGore said so.  He told the entire Planet that the United States was poisoning the atmosphere in such a way that life on Planet Earth could only exist another 12 years.  And, of course, he was right.  We are all dead.   The elephants, the mosquitos, the kitty-cats, the earthworms…everybody, everything is dead.

     Then a flying saucer noticed there was one last Polar Bear on a tiny little chunk of ice.  The little chunk of ice was floating towards Hawai'i and the Polar Bear died too…in 2010…the last living thing on Planet Earth.   Incredibly, although it must be true because AlGore said it, it just so happens that presently there are four times the numbers of Polar Bears to-day as there were twenty-five (25) years ago.  But, of course, they are all dead as well.

     The East Anglia University debacle, wherein and whereat a group of snotty professors fudged all manner of climate data to prove that AlGore was right, that life on Planet Earth ended in 1998 or sometime exactly and precisely, more or less around that time…came to an end.   Everybody knows it and that is why they have to keep it secret.

     It makes Alice in Wonderland appear to be a function of normalcy.   AlGore flunked out of Divinity School and Law School, from two reputable universities.   George W. Bush passed through two degrees from two reputable (one time long ago) universities.  Both are dolts, in my opinion, with AlGore having the more severe case of Doltotis.    After all, after AlGore dumped his dumpy wife for a new honey, he bought the new squeeze a magnificent mansion right on the edge of the Pacific Ocean, at a level that he himself said would be inundated by 30 feet due to Polar Ice Cap Melting, "…in less than 12 years."

WITHIN THE NEXT  12 (or twenty depending upon the level of stupidity and ignorance ofthe audience) YEARS THE ENTIRE PLANET WILL DIE DUE TO (choose one or more):  GLOBAL WARMING, GLOBAL COOLING, NUCLEAR WINTER, CLIMATE CHANGE, and MARTIAN RAY-GUNS DOING FRONTAL LOBATOMIES ON THE HUMAN RACE.
     The above admonition has been refreshed by a nice lady from Austin, Texas…Citadel of Reason and Truth and other disorders brought on by the proclivity to believe in marxist and socialist cultural and political reforms.

    Miss Julie Range was kind enough to submit to the Valley Evening Monitor, a McAllen newspaper, a Letter to the Editor that gave us the warning that we, as Texans, are killing the Planet again.  It is because of the wanton desire to poison everybody and everything with the burn-off of natural gas that occurs after the completion of almost every successful perforation.
     Miss Range is kind enough to not include the sources of ambient and other earth contamination that contribute well over 98 per cent of said ambient and terrestrial blight.  Interestingly, over 80 per cent can be traced to two nations, Red China and India.  The remainder, almost exclusively, can be traced to permanently third-world nations that are mired in hopeless corruption, violence, organic law, and general jungle rules.
      
     BUT!!!  We know that we can trust our informative friend, Miss Range, because while she lambasts the oil and gas industry (while folding in some slightly complementary comments) she cites the ever so reliable Earthworks company as some kind of standard for evaluating oil and gas production.  We are supposed to be disarmed when she rattles up the shibboleth that Earthworks is a "non-profit".   That title or qualification is proof that they are better than the foul people who actually produce wealth that can be distributed in an inefficient but very effective way…called free enterprise.   Non-profits are things like the previous Soviet Union.

Miss Range expounds:
     "Natural gas, plentiful in Texas, is an excellent bridge fuel from coal.  But, we diminish its value as a bridge fuel if we do not harvest it responsibly (?)  We must minimise fugitive emissions, the wasteful practice of flaring, and pollution of neighbours.
     "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says we have 12 years to cut our emission in half.   This means business as usual must change.
      "Texans already feel the effects of Climate Change with more powerful droughts, floods, and hurricanes.  Industry needs to be responsibly regulated. Texas needs leadership at the Railroad Commission willing to put the interest (sic) of Texans above that of industry."

To which El Gringo Viejo responds:
     It is a wondrous thing that there is a mass of humanity within the confines of the Republic of Texas that chooses to bray at the moon and jingle hollow platitudes so as to gain a sense of self-worth, no matter how unfounded their conclusions and beliefs.   Miss Range perhaps was born after 1960 or so.  Quite possibly she was born much later.

There were, supposedly, 11 buildings left standing.
Among them the damaged Baptist, Roman Catholic,
Episcopal, and Methodist Churches.

     My point is not to say that I have proof that my way of thinking has a monopoly on the nature of the Planet's comings and goings.  I shall point out that during the period from 1893 up to and including the year 1900, my great-grandfather and my grandmother endured three huge snows and freezing episodes…in Llano de Enmedio, Vera Cruz State of Mexico…far below the Tropic of Cancer.   They had a sizeable property producing avocadoes, mangoes, even a little coffee and other tropical products…especially for the markets of Mexico City and Monterrey.   After these freezes and snows, however, they had to throw in the towel…it was a 16 or more year labour by my great-grandfather, and my grandmother put in several years there as well…learning Spanish by practice to a level of perfection, and learning two different Indian languages, Totonac and Huastec  along the way.
     As an aside, please be aware that the Rio Grande froze solid on each of these invasions from the

 An accurate count was never determined
although bodies were found as much as
15 miles from Galveston... 

North Pole as well.  Other freezes of particular note were those of 1949 and 1951 and 1962,  all of which did nearly mortal damage to the concept of citrus production in the Magic Lower Rio Grande Valley.   Also, with reference to droughts…we went through the drought of 1949 through 1954, with a total for McAllen of 9 or 10 inches for the entire period…down substantially, I would say, from the normal 20 inches per year, more or less.   We had to irrigate with well water, because the Rio Grande had no water…and the well water was nice and clear, but it was very sulphurous. Not really good for citrus and vegetable crops.
     And, if you want hurricanes, try on the Hurricane of Galveston in 1900…with winds estimated into the 200 mile per hour level.   No one could come up with a good count but it was "estimated" that between 7,000 and 13,000 people died in that event.

So, and therefore…allow this humble writer to suggest that Miss Range, who is quite obviously ignorant of even relatively recent history, is also obviously not competent to advise us, the unwashed, stupid, neanderthal, reprobate, slobs about matters of climate change.   My eldest brother was the head of the College of Geology and Geography of Louisiana State University.  He was, among other things, a court certified expert on matters of Earth -  Solar relationships, Climate, and Weather, among many other things.   He and those who had no political agenda scoffed at the ridiculousness of this movement about global warming, global cooling, climate change etc… and he was correct.

Thanks one and all for your time and attention.
El Gringo Viejo

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In defence of the reality and the truth….an admonition to the President

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    Corruption and ineptitude.  It abounds in Central America…it abounds in Mexico.  But, in the case Mexico, we should gently suggest that, while there is considerable corruption at various levels of governance in Mexico, there is also considerable compliance with the political and moral compact.

    The very worst period was during the administrations of Luis Echeverria Alvarez (1970 - 1976) and the following regimen of Jose Lopez Portillo (1976 - 1982).   Mexico hit a kind of high water mark, breaking into the ranks of the First World, in a way, when they hosted the Olympics in 1968.  It was a great and proud moment for Mexico, although communist and radical elements attempted to sabotage the proceedings.

     During the twelve years of the horribly corrupt and socialist madness, these two managed to take a 12.50 to 1 peso and leave it to where it would wind up at 3,000 to 1.  That was quite an accomplishment.  Industry sputtered, the standard of living suffered, and the national will became increasingly pallid.  It took three terms, and bi-partisan at that, beginning with Ernesto Zedillo y Ponce de Leon of the PRI, then Vicente Fox Quesada of the PAN, and Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, also PAN, Mexico burst upon the stage of the Greatest Show on Earth, the international market place (The Partidido de Accion Nacional is analogous to the American Republican Party).  Zedillo Ponce de Leon was PRI…a centrist party…but he was a conservative member of that party's configuration and composition.

Yosemite Sam
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     The biggest problem the Mexican officialdom has right now, besides trying to stay ducked behind the bar while Yosemite Don shoots up the saloon, is the insane and violent nature of the traffickers of humans and drugs.   It is a combination of activities that has rotted out Honduras and El Salvador…nice little places not long ago…and it has damaged the cultural fabric of the once stable nation of Guatemala.   

Opium ships ploughing the waters off the Chinese Coast
the work of:  William John Huggin

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     Of interest is the fact that Mexico has been seriously embroiled in this matter for ten years now, with considerable numbers of the Mexican cartels' membership actually being from Central America.   The fall of much of the cocaine production business in Colombia (although there is a bit of a resurgence) was replaced by an active Red Chinese drug exporting business aimed at the United States.
    Some wise men sanctimoniously say that this act is designed as recompense for the flooding of China with opiates by the Brits.   Considering that Chairman Mao Tse Tung ordered the assassination of over 30,000,000 Chinese after the fall of the Chiang Kai-Shek's government in 1949, perhaps the Opiate matter should not have been all that important.   But, as we know, all such things of the Orient are inscrutable.  Perhaps the Red Chinese will learn how to be open and above-board like the Democrats and other leftists in the American Government.  Come and Brennan and (Sir Edmund) Hillary, anyone?


NOW TO THE ADMONITION OF AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT:

      The President of the United States is apparently unaware that the State of Tamaulipas is presently enjoying the presence of nearly 13,000 various types of police and military, over and above what "used to be" a normal rural police presence.   Many cities and small towns have either replaced the local constabulary with an elaborate and heavily armed and well-trained Army and Naval Infantry presence.  These bodies with bristling automatic weapons and heavier armament and reliable augment a new Federal Civilian Police (actually an extension of the Army) who are also well-trained and who have an excellent understanding of forensic investigation and judicial evidential analysis.

This is a scene that shows a pandilla (gang) of
allies of Joaquin who were "deactivated" by the
Mexican Army, special operations unit.
The majority of the detainees were from Central
America, especially Honduras.

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      The President of the United States is apparently unaware that the Mexican military has inflicted, during just the past three years, well over 1,000 killed and wounded cartel and organised criminal operatives, and have been involved  in the arrest of significant personalities within that organised crime sector numbering over 2,500 individuals.
     In many cases…unheard of twenty and thirty years ago…individuals apprehended by these forces who had warrants and requests for extradition to the Republic of Texas and to States in the United States and to the entity of the Department of Justice of the United States of America HAVE BEEN EXTRADITED to those entities, as requested, up to and including the famous Joaquin Guzman Loera.

     There is a sardonic joke that Mexicans recount, even as they remember that Sean Penn and various Mexican counterculturists was adored "El Chapo" like the strata of mentally and socially retarded swine who thought (or think) that "Bonnie and Clyde" were American Folk Heroes.  They weren't, folks.  They were murderous swine.

El Chapito became used to this part of being a
billionaire.
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     In the saloon, a fellow is swaggering around and telling everyone who will listen that "El Chapo" is a great man, "He is a personal friend of mine.  It is a sin that they shipped him to to Gringoland.   El Chapo should be King of Mexico!!!  Just think…he escaped from prison twice!!!!   That proves he has resources!! That proves he is too great to be detained!!
     Another man, tired of the drunk's ranting, pauses and then asks the drunk admirer of El Chapo, "He is very smart…perhaps that is true.  But if he escaped twice, how come he was captured three times?"

https://youtu.be/WD-Nre__RzY
The assembled group returned to their beer and tequila and dominoes…gossiping about Juan's wife and Jose's lucky chance with his Loteria Nacional win of one million pesos.   The trio came back around with tunes that pleased the people while the loud-mouth eased slowly out the front door.

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A convention of paragons of righteousness and good

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       Sean Penn, one of the great intellectual moralists in the history of Planet Earth had just had "relations" with the woman pictured on the left…according to her.  She, of course, is the wife of "El Chapo" pictured between the two paragons of virtue and selflessness.
     Sean, being the beacon of truth and light who reminded everyone that Cuba was also the beacon of righteousness to guide the world in these troubled times declared himself to be a "journalist".  This, of course, was something which is appropriate because none of the other "journalists" who are working in "journalism" have any idea what "truth", "righteousness" or "journalism" mean as words in this universe and at this time.

     He, as most "journalists" during these times, thinks that journalism is the process by which one ridicules and generally makes fun of normalcy, decency, and responsibility.   Sean, after gaining information for his story, launched his career and has since scored many, many scoops.  He seemed to have misunderstood that "scoops" was not something we were associating with walking the Great Dane.


A FINAL  REQUEST OF THE ADMIRAL OF THE SHIP:

     PLEASE,  Mr. President…understand that private negotiating with Mexicans is much better for your purposes than browbeating them in public.   Furthermore, to say that they are doing nothing is simply not true.
   Truth is made from Copper, Silver, and Gold.   When you say that the Mexicans are doing absolutely nothing about this, you are spitting rancid mucous that makes no sense at all to people who support you but also have a reasonable understanding about Mexico and the Mexicans.  Scores upon scores of Mexican soldiers have died in this fight…and scores and scores of honest Mexican cops and semi-honest cops have died in this fight…fighting for the Right and the Moral. 
      We have property in Mexico, and we have a long intergenerational industrial, business, and commercial relations with Mexico and the Mexicans since the 1880s.  They are not all saints…but about 90 per cent of them could qualify as assistant Saints.

 We beg your indulgence, and we beg that you think strategically and not tactically.  Thanks to our readers and thank you, Mr. President.
El Gringo Viejo

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If I Were the Devil: Paul Harvey

Points of View…Points of Fact…Trump, the "caravans"…strategy and tactics

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(1)   Some days back Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) declares that he agrees that Mexico can and should help restrain the crowds of unqualified "migrants" striving to gain the system in terms of passing across the Mexican / Texas frontier and continuing on to their hidey-holes in the various dark corners of the United States of America.

     The Secretary of Foreign Relations, Marcelo Ebrard, toned that down a bit, suggesting that Trump is beating a demographic-political drum for domestic political reasons and adding, extraneously that ,"We, Mexicans are great neighbours…there are one-and-a-half million Americanos living in Mexico who have chosen Mexico as their home."

     Then Trump declares that he is going to shut down the border next week, and that he is not kidding.  He even threatens that he will keep the border "...closed for a long time".    Trump also states that the Mexicans have done nothing to stem the tide.

     It is painfully obvious that Trump knows very little about what is going on, say in Tamaulipas, the State adjacent to McAllen, Laredo, and Brownsville, and where the bulk of the invaders are invading and committing the purposeful sham of declaring the need for asylum in the United States of America.   The route from  McAllen / Reynosa down to our little adobe hut in the middle of NoWhere, Mexico is about 240 highway miles…I drive it frequently.

     The military presence along the route is massive.   Presently there is an overall deployment  of over 9,600 heavy infantry from the Army and from the Naval Infantry…both bodies are engage frequently in detaining and literally combatting the cartel people.  There are casualties aplenty.   Thankfully, our team escapes with very few soldiers killed and very few wounded.  Most of the casualties are with the cartel people.

      One problem the military has is they have restrictive rules of engagement now, very similar to the American military.   Another problem is, of course, that our side has to take extra caution concerning collateral damage among the populace…their lives and pertinences.

       The Federal Highway Patrol is ubiquitous, perhaps two or three patrol units every 10 miles.  And now, there are deployments of a new armed force, the National Guard.   This group will be used to maintain permanent presence in areas with serious problems with the Cartels and with "migrants" who are swarming into Mexico and quite frequently committing numerous crimes as they slither to the north.   The Guardia Nacional will be more of a permanent group, not an auxiliary as in the case of the United States and/or Israel.

     So that the OROGs (Order of the Readers of the Old Gringo) will know, there is little stock taken in the notion that the next "caravana" will be the Mother of All Caravanas…with 20,000 people marching to the north to gain their fair share of free stuff from the Gringos.   And, frankly, what they cannot gain for "free", they will steal, and make no doubt about it.

    But, no one is suggesting that there will be that many people.   Truth be known, more people arrive independently in two's and three's and five's and six's than by the hundreds and thousands as a cohesive group.   The reason we have this crunch at this time is because the word went out that the Mexican military is everywhere and they will be distracting the Cartel people.  Also the cartels are apparently dedicated to the idea that working and co-ordinating with the competition is not an alternative…the job is to kill the other cartel guys.   That lay of the land helps the "migrant", whom I style as the "invader" because they are not migrants, they are invaders.

     So, we find ourselves with a conundrum.   When there are several thousand real-live military and competent police in Tamaulipas, the Centroamericanos reason that it's a bit safer and surer to travel on a nice common carrier autobus at reasonable prices, en lieu of paying some cartel boss 2,500 dollars to "guarantee" delivery to the "otro lado (other side)".   All but a 50 - 50 chance of being ripped off or held for additional money (like ransom).

(2)  THERE IS A "SECRET SOLUTION":

     The fact is the Mexican military could be used effectively in the area of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a narrow waist-band of a geographic phenomena that could restrain hundreds of

thousands of people with the deployment of 30,000 troops.   Regarding the map to the left, one can see the green line drawn between the Gulf of Mexico  / Bay of Campeche to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the South.

     The entire breadth of that line is 125 miles.  There are few highways, though they are high- mediocre to excellent nowadays, thereby facilitating rapid 1st Class or even deluxe bus transport through channels that can be supervised by military and illegal immigrant control fairly easily.   About 50 per cent of that line moves through territory that is prohibitive to extremely difficult or impossible for "migrants"to transit.   Canyons, heavy jungle, many mountains requiring almost the skill of Alpinists serve to provide a hazard zone folded into a labyrinth.
    Culturally, the main problem is the Central American.   Criminality is not something that can be disregarded.  It is not something people can say,"Let's not discuss that because it could be offensive to some of the Central American people."   Please understand.   El Salvador and Honduras are hell-holes of depravity.  Guatemala is a bit better and it has a relatively sedentary, traditional Mayan Indian population that seems to live in a form of prosperous poverty.   But there are Guatemaltecos who fall for the siren's song of striking it wealthy in America.
     It is estimated that 10% to 15% of the felonious parties in Mexico are from Central America.  Nicaragua is soon going to join the triad of "bad-boy countries".  Perhaps they will have to be a quadrad soon.   And before the reader declares that the Centroamericanos can pass themselves off as Mexicans…please discard that notion.   In almost all cases it is much simpler even than an American knowing that he is speaking to a Canadian because the Canadian says "aboot" instead of "about", and because Americans do not say "Eh!?" at the end of every phrase and sentence.  (American juveniles and adolescents do say "Huh?" more than any other deceitful response or grunting.)
   But, the Central Americans have very different accents from Mexicans.  They also use different sentence constructs and they have different facial expressions and postures when speaking.   Mexico has several dialectic and accent zones but there are broad similarities amongst the 130 million Mexicans.  The Central Americans have dialectic and accent differences by the kilometre almost.

 "I told you, Jose!  Be careful of the winds around Juchitan
and La Ventosa on your way through there!  But you did
not listen to me!  So, you're fired!!!" (And yes, this is
an actual toppled-over tractor-trailer rig that was
blown over by sustained 70 mph winds.)

    And for those looking at the simplicity of simply going around the military wall in the south by taking little boats at night or whenever and landing to the west of that line, there is a bit of impediment; the problem?
    For instance there is a town on the coast there with the name "La Ventosa (The Windy Place)" where winds blow almost incessantly and unpredictably.   Wind speeds just off-shore can be sustained at 30 miles per hour with gusts to 50-plus miles per hour just as a matter of the norms.   And…there is no real "windy season", it is pretty much a matter of the juxtaposition of the Bay of Tehuantepec and the elevations of the mountains that conduct cold, falling air in the upper-level easterlies.   It goes on all the time, almost.   It is one of the reasons there would not be a lot of folks making and "end-run" via the Pacific Ocean on their way north.

More later,
El Gringo Viejo

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Aerogenerador se Incendia en la Ventosa, Oaxaca, Mexico 09-Noviembre-2014

    These horrid vulture, hawk, and eagle killers are even death traps for themselves.  This particular monster caught fire because of some kind of lubrication failure…a real problem in the La Ventosa area of Mexico where the winds are terribly strong 80 per cent of the time.
     We point out in our next posting that it is not a place where people can take a small skiff into the Bay of Tehuantepec and escape a possible terrestrial blockade by the Mexican military who might be trying to rein in the massive inundation of Central Americans trundling towards Gringolandia and the chance to obtain all the free milk and honey there.

     Obviously, this "free electricity" system had a small problem on the way to the forum.   The reason a skiff is not in order is because the winds in the area and for some distance off of the coast are very, very strong and very unpredictable.   We are talking about 30 to 50 miles per hour being relatively common and gusts to 100 are not that rare…and it is not bound by seasons or moon-sign or the like.  It is due to a peculiar interaction with the land mass and the sea water temperature. 

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