A Finch giving a Hummingbird

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    Australian photographer Christian Spencer, who lives in Brazil took these beautiful photos of a hummingbird that looks like its wings are made of a rainbow. It took patience, skill, and some luck, but he managed to take many shots of a bird with light diffracting through its wings, making them look colorful and magical.

     Why the label "A Finch Giving a Hummingbird"?   Milton Finch, who resides in South Carolina is, among other attributes, a relatively serious bird watcher who is quite expert in the topic.  I am a fairly good minor-league dilettante.   One cannot have a place in the particular area of Mexico where we have our "little mud hut'' without being overcome by what turns out to be well over 500 different species of birds on an annual basis.

     They all  take seasonal turns at barging in on our grounds to bathe, eat, brood, and make racket…without apology.  They never pay us anything, except the joy of the comfort and beauty they bring upon the property.  So we presume that the balance works out evenly for all parties.

     Thanks to Milton Finch for having posted this remarkable bit of photography by Mr. Spencer.  Mr. Finch is a client of ours, having visited out humble abode and property in NoWhere, Mexico not long ago for a nice stay.  He is also an avid star and UFO aficionado, a solid lifetime Christian student and a person with an almost identical social, moral, and political outlook as the writer.   He and the Mrs. are of those couples who make America function.

El GRINGO VIEJO

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INTERMISSIM

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     Were it to have been anything but this horrid matter of indiscriminate carnage, we would have gone on with our elaboration about our previous intended topic.   The matter of dual mass shootings must be addressed however, and this we shall strive to do in measured, solid, reasonable, and respectful ways.

     

     

          We have been called upon again to endure the misery of psychopathic and sociopathic horror…it is truly…as the words might indicate…pathetic.  There is no place to hide when the bullets are flying and there is no place to hide when the reasonable person considers the hideousness of these acts of supreme conceit and arrogance.   We should like to provide the observances and recollections of an older man who has been through this…in some ways directly, and in other ways vicariously.

     One million years ago, back in place called Austin, Texas when it was a normal place, it was my unpleasant experience to have been on the campus of the University of Texas, urgently seeking a fellow worker with the Austin Parks and Recreation Department.  He had left a meeting of Park Leaders to go to the main campus for some administrative duty pertaining to his alignment for next semester's course sign-up.  This fellow, whom I sought, was the son of one of Walt Disney's most important animists and design producers.  The son, Paul Sontag, my fellow park leader at a park most adjacent to the one given to my charge, was a jewel of a fellow…the guy everyone esteemed…not "liked" but genuinely was thought of as a really, really nice guy.

The beloved Tower of the University of Texas Campus?

      Why was El Gringo Viejo driving like a madman, parking in restricted parking, and dashing up into the centre compound of the University of Texas after this fine fellow?  Because the fellow had left the Austin Parks and Recreation main office and driven to the Campus area in order to make a small change in his degree plan.   And he was unaware that a shooter was killing and wounding people, firing from high atop the famous University Tower…the landmark emblem of the institution.

     As I ran in, the first person down that I encountered was what was left of my buddy, Paul Sontag.  He had taken a head shot and was dropped in his tracks without ever knowing what hit him.   I had no time for remorse or even anger.  Seeing a uniformed Marine waving at anyone,  I continued running towards him, at the base of the Tower so as to gain cover from the shooter.   When other people nearer the Library Building (about 200 feet distant) motioned us that the shooter had changed position, the Marine and I ran over and carried a pregnant woman who had been wounded high in the shoulder area.  We hoisted and clumsily carried the lady to our protected area of protection adjacent to the Tower.

    When it was all over, the woman was taken off by competent personnel…to one of several public and private hospitals very close by…she survived and the baby was not traumatised or injured.   The OROGs and other readers will note that this is not my tale of heroism or sacrifice.  My story is one of becoming accidentally trapped with no alternatives, and then having to do what the Christian teachings require…as in the case of the Samaritan…render unto he who needs.   And, a pregnant woman down defines "he who needs". 

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     After all was said and done…it was decided that "something happened and steps were being taken to make certain that such a thing would never happen again", and various movements began to abolish guns, and blah, blah, blah.  Sears and Roebuck stopped selling pistols, for instance.  And, that solved all the problems.

     Folks, the problem is not the firearm.  The problem is drugs, over-medication, and self-adulation, and self-indulgence.   Almost all of these people, using the word "people" loosely, have been pumped full of all kinds of behaviour-control "medicine".   The Columbine assassins were both taking three or more different types of behaviour-control "medicines", and almost all of the spontaneous assassins have been filled with these various poisons, almost totally aimed at males and frequently with adverse effect.

     Charles Whitman,  the Tower shooter, who was also a Marine, was also a walking medicine cabinet, full of various powerful cure-alls for the disease of masculinity and normalcy.   My father, a psychologist, declared that Whitman's "counsellor" concerning psychological medication…"…must have been an idiot."  (My father had little patience for dumboes).

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SO, THEREFORE:

       Your humble servant did receive an Honourable Discharge from the United States Army although Charles Whitman did not.    He was already under DD process before his rampage.   The Marine who did most of the heavy lifting with the pregnant lady, I am sure, received an Honourable Discharge, in later time after the above-described matters.   We wish to move now, however, to the present.

      Donald John Trump has nothing to do with any of these matters that occurred over this past weekend, or any other such time.  And as far as firearms and guns are concerned, please understand that in Mexico, almost all the innocent and uninvolved have no guns…on person…in homes.   Firearms are the domain of the military and the police (such as the latter might be).                   
      Those involved in normalcy, have children, brothers, sisters, cousins or close friends who like to "get together" and blow a little smoke and/or drop a little acid…and after a few weeks, months, or years…go out and slaughter people who have nothing to do with anything that pertains to the perpetrator, or reality.  It is part of the blessing of being "liberated" from normalcy by the people who worship at the altar of normalcy and then who depend upon drugs and other self-contaminants that give the false impressions of normalcy.

     We arrive at our point.

    We know that the OROGs and your humble servant are not the biggest fans of Donald John Trump, but we must also know that he had nothing to do with the shootings of the innocents, nor any of the others, over the past 20 or 40 yea.rs   We also know that we cannot overly judge the innocent or the guilty on this Earth, because those matters are to be left to the acolytes of Saint Peter.

There shall be more commentary…but we have various contributions piling up.   Please excuse.
EL GRINGO VIEJO

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Limes, Problematics, and the "Migrant Mess"

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A brief note before the pontification begins:

     We have been out during the past few weeks, dealing with medical emergencies and situations, attending to affairs at our little place in Mexico, and taking care of a thousand loose ends.   It is a source of guilt-syndrome perhaps because I have had no problems, but people close to me of the first order of relation.

     We have had to defer our normal observations and pontifications to take care of such matters.  Upon return to our blog activity, it was somewhat less than amusing to find that it appeared that some of our last postings had been "modified" apparently either by a weather / electrical occurrence or by outright hacking penetration…or both.

     In any regard, we have set about to restore some of the writing and composition, and we are going to try to return to some semblance of commentary about things pertaining to Mexico, Central America, and the American condition.    We shall probably make some observations about the elections in Texas during the coming Generals in 2020.

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Early 2017 lime sproutlings just getting started

     We continue, now,  with news and information about our neighbour, the owner of the 220 acres of a special type of lime that was put in about three years ago.   During  our last stay down at our Quinta he came and delivered a "decena (10)" of the new-fangled lime.   It was the "first picking",  and Rafael said he wanted me to be the "first" to receive them.   That term is actually a bit of an overstatement, but not by much.  These trees are supposed to produce fully after four or five years.  But, due to very timely rains and no severe cold, everything lined up to be the perfect setting for a "first crop harvest".

This are the limes about one and a half year later, in 2018

    This harvest will not be some great bounty.   But, by September - October of this year, the workers, mechanics, analysts, and marketeers will be able to do enough of a harvest to be able to reasonably confront the requirements of harvest and marketting, pest control and soil analysis, leaf rust and nematode infestations, etc. so as to have a truly smooth running operation.  Especially important is the preparation to be able to confront the "real harvest"coming up in April / May of 2020.

      One can readily see the quick and dense growth that
                  has occurred "while we were sleeping".

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     These particular trees will tend to adapt to a two-harvests per twelve months rhythm.   The tonnage Don Rafael (the owner of the Hacienda de La Vega) and the staff a are looking for will be around 15,000 tonnes (English measure) per calendar year.  There are still enough younger men around who are capable at multitasking who can maintain an active husbandry regimen over what, by Texas standards, is a huge citrus acreage involvement.  The younger but more experienced men generally tend to have three or four journeyman's trades over which they can  perform well without intense supervision.   There are even master's level blue-collar expertise…amazing actually…but good for El Gringo Viejo when repairs are needed at our Quinta, next door to the lime plantation of the Hacienda de La Vega.
     In order to understand well, these limes are slightly smaller than lemons, and shaped more like a basketball than the football-like lemon.   The new-fangled limes are not quite as sour and are becoming very much in demand in the urbane places in Europe, Japan, as well as the large cities of Mexico and South America.   They are especially popular in seafood restaurants and saloons of the higher categories.   Many think that these new fangled limes are medicinal in some ways.
     To sum up this really basic progress report, it has been interesting to watch the work proceed and especially to see, now, the actual fruit of the labours of about twenty people.  Really and and truly impressive.

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The Matter of the Migrant Mess:

     To begin, it has been quite impressive to see how quickly the Mexican military authority finally came into line with what they have been wanting to do for several years anyway.  Oddly enough, it took the doddering Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) supreme socialist leftist President of Mexico to essentially get out of the way and, as well, allow some reason to enter into the issue of the "inmigrantes".
   And, if that sentence makes any sense to the reader, it is very possible that the reader has become immersed into the state of mind that is required in order to have a good understanding of Mexico.  The first thing to understand, of course, is that the entire issue of the "inmigrantes" is a sham.  It is an invention of the leftist "World Control Group"to permit the imposition of all nature of insult against free and relatively free states and nations.   That imposition is designed to serve the interests of our betters who know what is best for us, while they live in gated communities next door to Nancy Pelosi and (Sir Edmund)Hillary.
      It took about 20 years for the issue of flooding to finally sieze the Republic of Texas and the United States of America with hordes of illegal aliens from increasingly ungovernable and/or dysfunctional poor  countries.   The beginnings were in the overthrow of Anastacio Samosa, the President of Nicaragua back in the 1970s.   The end seems to be occurring now.   Perhaps this is Armageddon II - The Real Game.

    We shall have commentary tonight and tomorrow being readied for publication, no later than Monday, next.   Thanks for staying in with us.

El Gringo Viejo

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The Border Invasion and the Fallout Therefrom

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     The issues and comments and over-abundance of words, thoughts, and opinions about the increasing level of anarchic behaviour along the frontiers of the United States and Texas has become an "issue" in many parts of the United States and Texas.   Clumsy, juvenile commentary by the President has helped those in opposition to order and common law…Ocasio-Cortez, the Democrat - Socialist coalition, along with the mega-billionaires who wish to assign the rest of us to our appropriate place in the ant-hill or bee-hive.

The Beginning:

      This entire matter began as a "democratic socialist" movement that involved many dolts and dreamers back during the last quarter of the 1800s.   Great Thinkers like Teddy Roosevelt, Margaret Sanger, Henry Ford, George Bernard Shaw, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Eleanor Roosevelt, and thousands of others of "our betters" stumbled forth to save us from ourselves.

George William Freiderick Engles

We are not clear why Engles sent us a photo of some
older lady supposed to be his third-grade teacher
 instead of one of himself.  (She is a mean looking
critter, in any regard.)

     Brilliant People…all.  Karl Marx and George William Friederich Engles perfected the correct plans for other peoples' lives.  All things they did after forming up their forming up of the forming up of civilisation as it should be formed up the mess we have in the undevelopable world and the "democratic socialists" in the European Union and all the minions who follow them.

     We are carefully taught by the controllers of the mass media to believe what they say is somehow found in the tablets that were left behind after Moses lost the other eight tablets. Moses submitted only the two that he could find after the previous night's party.
      American children to-day cannot differentiate between which war was which…the Civil War or the War Between the States.   But many can parrot-chirp terms such as "climate change" or "equality" or "World Peace" and speak with great authority about what any of such bilge means.   Thankfully there are many children, still, who are raised in fruitful orchards and who know what is meant by terms such as "natural law".   So, please do not think that your humble servant is saying"all is lost".
      We leave this in order to move to our more urgent points. The Red-coats invaded us when we decided to establish a separate nation…a Republic to be named The United States of America…from the Brits.   They were nice folks, but…our situation was different, and King George III did not wish to allow us our "freedom of expression".   The Yankees invaded the South when it was understood that their slavery of bonded indenture of adults and children to serve terms in factories and other services with wages of pennies per day,  was a "higher form" of dealing with "the lower elements" than the horrid slavery in the South of the new nation.   That War resulted in what is estimated to have been over 2,000,000 soldiers and support people being killed and wounded…far and away great than any other War losses suffered by the Americans in all Wars.   
      
    Woodrow Wilson, who would not touch a Negro…even the hand of Booker Tallefero Washington (a True Hero of America and brilliant thinker) during Wilson's time as President at the White House…was one of these "Progressives" who wanted to either send the Negroes back to Africa or to "otherwise" eliminate them through medical measure of sterilisation.   Margaret Sanger was very, very much in favour of this alternative.

       It should be of interest that Helen Keller…the famous poster child for all those who are multi-incapicated…(blind, deaf, etc)…was one of the leaders of the "Progressive Movement" of the first and second quarters of the 20th Century.    Miss Keller was deaf, blind, and several other things.  She also hated America and declared that European institutions would do more to help the incapacitated.   One needs to tread carefully when discussion this matter. 
     Were she to have learned what National Socialism meant what Germany had wished to do with people like Helen Keller, as opposed to what I might have done for her as a rural, Southern farm boy…she would have chosen differently from what she (Hellen Keller) might have chosen.   My choice is, was, and forever will be….life.
      The entire Progressive Movement is a lie.   That is why they have to say…."Gay"…instead of homosexual.   Truly, the word "gay" has little to do with homosexuality, especially during the last 20% to 30% of the life of a supposedly "gay" personality…(Liberace, Van Cliburne, Prince, Andy Warhol, Rock Hudson, and several million around the world, millions more).   The entire movement at these very moments tie into the declared war against normalcy.
   We were told that everything was closing in on the end of the Planet Earth because America was using too much of the assets of the rest of the people on Planet Earth, and therefore we had so much hunger, poverty, and disease.
     Ozone Holes…Glacial Melting…Birth avoidance…abortion rights…18 year-olds voting…low-calorie, "healthy" diets…no eggs due to the cholesterol…and the worst storms in history are destroying America, Japan, and Europe.  Everybody knows it, and everybody knows it is America's fault.   Little matter that Red China and Indian are far and away the two entities that contribute almost 80% of all pollution of the Planet Earth.
    And it goes on and on.  Everybody must covert to Protestantism…everyone must be loyal to Roman Catholicism…the Beatles are going to India to visit the Hindu magicians…there is no divinity, God is dead, according to Episcopal Bishop Pike in the 1960s…Buddhism is the only path…Psychology will solve all illnesses and bring people into proper balance…Palestinians are forced into misery and torture by Jews.

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NOW THE PRONUNCIATION:

The myriad of…people…crossing into the Republic of Mexico and the Republic of Texas during these times was boiled out of the cauldron of poison boiled up by the Three Witches (perhaps) of MacBeth's encounter.
Thus sayeth El Gringo Viejo:

     The Republicans, the Americans, the Christians and Jews, Madison Avenue, the Flying Saucers, and all the mental inventions of the  present-day media cannot subordinate the facts.   Human errors are human errors. 

THIS IS NOT THE GUY,
you want your daughter (or
son) to bring home for an
encounter or family supper.
Among his various names
is Pol Pot, Butcher of
Cambodia…3 Million of the 
nation's 6 million died under
his orders...

     Nations…large and small…commit small and large errors.  Switzerland and the Great Britain, the Japanese Empire, all nature of the powerful and/or potent have committed these errors.  But, there is one Nation where all the World would rather be…apparently…and that is the United States of America.
   Transnational Socialist Agents have worked for years to destabilise the United States and any allied nation or agency.   We have written before about the Mitterrand ogres and the Soros contamination of humanity…(as in the US, we only have examples such as Black Lives Matter,  Occupy Wall Street,  No Borders, America Will Learn or America Will Burn, Southern Poverty Law Centre…and yes, up to and including the American Civil Liberties Union,  etc. etc. etc.).

     One can judge their successes in Central America.   They destroyed El Salvador,  Guatemala,  Honduras, and Nicaragua as relevant players in the world scene.  Before, they were reliable servants to their own cause…not servants to others, unless they offered reasonable profit.   The Roman Church was reliable at least in the High Rituals…but by the late 1980's it had become a refuge for clerical fellows seeking…whatever.   The Esteemed Bishop of Rome (The Pope, for those of the Protestant or another Orthodox Opinion) has indicated that he is something it would be better not to say.   I shall say it…he is a Liberation Theologist.

      Fidel and Raul of Cuba…and the Ortega Brothers of Nicaragua…and people such as Hugo Chavez…and all the drug and pre-teen and slightly older girls who have been "harvested"in those precincts? Necessity

     All of the elites of the European and American Left thought that the previously mentioned were acolytes and junior prophets of the coming of a new and more perfect Union.   Homosexuality would solve the problem of overpopulation and Nelson Mandela would solve the problems of Africa…

     Overpopulation was the "Global Warming" of the earliest 1960's.   And "Sub-commandante" Marcos, a person with a medical degree…coming from an extremely well-placed social position in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico)…decided to pitch in so as to save the "unwashed masses" who did not love Marxists and Ho and Chou and Mao, and all the skeletons of Pol Pot's effort to make a "perfect society".   He (Marcos) frose reasonable development in the southernmost (non-Yucatan) portion the Mexican Republic (this begin the early to latter nineties)  The various "Indian nations" (actually just remote villages of a few hundred or 1,000 usually, in Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Tabasco) returned to their habit of severe violence towards others (almost all, other Indians) when there was a land dispute, sometime involving two or three acres.

     American college / university  and "students" throughout the world, and the preface leftist "community" banged drums, broke bank windows, beat up their parents, etc.    Smoking dope and begging on the streets was much better than gaining a living during the late 1960s and onward towards the Present.

     Reseaonably enough,  that profession has gained…very gradually…more and more respect during the years of America's supposed decadence.   We say "supposed decadence" when one could have witnessed the "dressing-down" of an American Vice-President when that person, with his wife, had gone to honour the stage presentation based around the life of an American icon. "HAMILTON" was the name of that stage presentation in New York…perhaps on Broadway.
    Ironically, it was the cast who ridiculed and baited the Vice-President with taunts even as he was seated and respectfully awaiting the presentation of the play.   The cast and crew were, of course, a three-dimensional depiction of how white-trash look and act.

More Later…a lot of interruption from the "Google and associated"  freedom of the press people.

El Gringo Viejo

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Some of your Coastie Cousins, Piggy!

     Really bright…sitting on a jerry-rigged "submarine" built by a bunch of guys who were stoned for a 10,000 mile oceanic trek with 300,000,000 (three hundred million) dollars worth of soul-sludge (cocaine and enhanced cocaine).

   Two dumboe Coasties out-smart, out-brave, out-serve the military and social points.  In spades. Christian can be proud of his "Coastie Cousins" .   This will be shipped to the originals and then to the open market.

    To conclude the picture…all the dope was destroyed…two American military men risked their lives at 6,000 feet of  ocean's depth…choppy seas…and All The Countries fed Pertinent information (at great risk) to the involved 

patrols and information transmitters.

    God Bless  the United States and the Republic of Colombia, and the Republic of Mexico.  !!!!!!!!!

Alleluia….Alleluia…There is a God in Heaven and He is Yahweh, Father of Jesus!!!!

(Oh…,  by  the way, my son, I repeat, my son is a Coastie Veteran…).   More is coming forth.   We shall begin publishing again to-morrow…mainly about the truth of the Border.

El Gringo Viejo

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The Trump Tariffs...

TRUMP IMPOSES TARIFFS ON MEXICO?

     This information fell onto the stage of present-day entertainment yesterday.  Donald Trump, during the early morning hours, determined that since pushing tariffs off on the Red Communist Chinese did not work all that well, it might be time to have similar success by pushing the Mexicans around a little bit.  It could be considered a first step to making the Mexicans "pay for the Wall".

     There are a few problems.   The American government has managed to repatriate about 3,000 illegal aliens back to Central America.  Some were scumbags who had active wants and warrants for felonies committed back in Guatemala, Honduras, and/or El Salvador.
    The Mexican military and other agencies of said government and social structure have managed managed to deport 23,200 illegal aliens…the vast majority being from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala.

      This leads us into the  Brea Tar Pits, because we have no set law about what to do to illegal aliens who come onto American and Texian soil expecting to be allowed to stay in Texas or America simply by saying that they were persecuted and living in violent circumstances.
     The fact is, lamentably, that we have invited these unqualified people to the banquet and challenge of the American way of life.   The uninvited slobs who demand and require, but who do not respect, anything except their own desire to procreate, eat and sleep, and take...give the American public some difficult problems to solve.

     The Obsolete Press…even FOXNews…does not wish to point out that these "caravans (a stupid word, meaning something completely different)" are normally composed of 65 per cent unattached males between the ages of 12 to 35.  Many have active wants and warrants.   About 25 per cent are women and young girls…many of whom are pregnant or intending to be pregnant with the intention of whelping on American soil.  That seals their access to free food, free housing, free medical care, free school, free legal representation, free everything…forever.  The women know, from their aunts and older sisters, that the Gringos are "obligated" to give everything to a woman who has babies on American soil.

Our Neighbour's Abode

  We told him that if he gave us electricity from his abode,
that we would pay for his electricity, ad infinitum. That
 decision would cost us about 2,000 dollars during the
 past twenty years.
BUT…during that time he has added  a refrigerator,
a television, and various lights around his place.  He
 has children in Gringolandia who send money and
 he has about 10 acres of the best Valencia Oranges
 in the World. He has been an excellent neighbour
 without any condition or comment.The "growies"
 alone on this 2 acre domestic allotment speak volumes.

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 And it is true,  in almost all cases, that we  must give all these things to the poor, downtrodden women who have been forced upon, who have no skills, who have only necessity, because…after all…"who is going to feed all these babies?".  

     During the past five years, the number of Mexican citizens  many of them legally in the United States and Texas, have been going back into Mexico.  Most are returning to home-ground…and the biggest problem might be that some of the younger children they might have cannot speak Spanish.   This problem normally resolves itself, because the English-speaking Mexican returnee children almost uniformly begin to pick up correct Spanish in short order.

    Oddly enough, Mexico is receiving hundreds upon thousands of Americans (and a few Canadians) who are retiring or semi-retiring in Mexico.   And these are not "time-shares" or people looking for 17 room palaces for 100 dollars / month.   There are now approximately one million Gringos living either permanently or on a semi-permanent, come-and-go basis.

   Your humble servant and his boss (wife) own a very nice, rustic, rural home in the middle of NoWhere, Mexico that we built ourselves about 20 years ago.   It borders upon the preposterous the number of different bird species we have, and the pleasantries we have shared with the with the locals, and the potentates from Ciudad Victoria (capital of the State,  30 miles away), and "normal" people from the American catchment, and foreign visitors and guests, and the perpetually flowing, spring-fed, Rio Corona…lined with ancient Cypress trees…some approaching 1, 300 years of age (or more).

     Please understand that this was not a house-building due to some whim…our family had been in the area frequently, and we were the first, back in the 1952 - 1953 period.   My "boss" handled all the small stuff, like the IRS, and the delivery of highly classified and valuable paper that he barely knew…(I told her it was 'okay'")…we never violated any law or dictate of the Hebrew or Christian understanding  of normalcy.   We handled many thousands of tourism documents including all of the above-mentioned valuable papers. 

Our little adobe hut has been a refuge for bird-watchers and people searching for a hidden place where tranquility and preferred boredom can actually be found.     We shall point out some of our place so as to assure the folks reading that we have a place in Mexico, experience with Mexico that is considerable and generational.   Our particular place is intentionally built in the ancient manner.  These are pictures of the guest room and grounds, designed to give the reasonable inquirer some idea of what we are talking about in terms of being familiar with and doing business in Mexico.

     Our main point to-day is to vigorously urge that the President forego any consideration of imposing tariffs of any kind on Mexico (or Canada).   The Mexicans have, regardless to what is thought or declared on certain television outlets, deported about a quarter of a million Centroamericanos during the past three or four years.

     The Mexicans have lost about 500 Mexican Army and Mexican Naval Infantry forces in the combatting of organised kidnapping and drug trafficking and general combat with the cartels.  Another number of around 250 "semi-honest" and honest cops in Mexico have died in this same effort.   These forces have been as active as one can reasonably expect considering the mass of humanity that is rushing the American border.

     Please understand that Mexico has had a net re-entry of Mexicans who were both legally and illegally in the United States that far exceeds illegal Mexican entrant into the United States.  The Central Americans, as illegal aliens, outnumber  Mexicans now by an almost nine-to-one ratio.   Please understand that Mexico's population of 130,000,000 dwarfs the combined populations of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras with a total of 32,000,000 all put together.

     There are about 19,000,000 Mexicans who have entry permits…some are for one-county deep, most are for full coverage of the United States.  Of that group, 99.9% apparently come and go in compliance with their documents.   Central Americans?  Not so much…

     Mexico is the number one trade partner with Texas and the number two trade partner with the United States.  Any tariff impact can be extremely damaging to the interests of business and labour in those two entities.  To give folks an idea of the trade back and forth twixt Texas and Mexico, the both-ways import and export comes up to almost 800,000,000,000 (800 billion) dollars per year.
     Mexico is not the Land of Mañana with the fellow sleeping up against the cactus.   It is an incredibly complex country with many corners, bright places, dark places, problems, and solutions. There is no reason to punish them for not doing everything perfectly when we ourselves have allowed one stupidity after another in terms of immigration policy…and done nothing about it, especially in the lower house of the American Congress…

NO TARIFFS, PLEASE…AND THANK YOU!!

EL GRINGO VIEJO

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