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A New Mexico
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Raoul Lowery Contreras/HispanicVista.com - December 18, 2006
A New Mexico
By Raoul Lowery Contreras
Our television screens were full of fighting Mexicans in the Mexican Chamber
of Deputies in the days leading up to the formal swearing in of President
Felipe Calderon, winner of the Mexican Presidential election by less than
half a percentage point.
The good guys: The real democrats and fellow party (PAN) members of
Presidents Fox and Calderon; the Bad Guys: The Idiots of the extreme left
wing (semi-communist) radicals of the loser Partido Revolucionario
Democratico (PRD) – the Girlie Men of Mexico.
Girlie Men are real losers. In this case, they have rejected all the legal
institutions of Mexican government, the Mexican election laws and the laws
of presidential succession. Their leader, the Al Gore of Mexico, continues
to reject his loss and Florida-like, he refuses to admit defeat.
Publicly, the PRD announced that Felipe Calderon would never be sworn in as
President. Mexican scholars pointed out that the swearing in at the Chamber
of Deputies was strictly ceremonial, that, in fact, Calderon would
automatically become President at 12:01 a.m. on December 1, 2006, period.
President Calderon is Mexico’s President for the next six years, the PRD
notwithstanding. This writer will never mention the name of the loser Andres
Manuel Lopez Obrador again in serious manner. His call for street
demonstrations and blockades, and his naming himself “President” go far
beyond any democratic means and methods. Even Al Gore, the quintessential
loser and Girlie Man didn’t try the baloney that Obrador did.
Now, perhaps, Mexico can settle down and help President Calderon bring in
more foreign investment, create new jobs, continue to keep the birth rate
down and to bring prosperity and better living conditions to millions of
those disaffected by the traditional heel on
the necks of millions of Southern Mexicans.
Pushing more free market reforms will go a long way to helping the Southern
Mexicans, for, Southern Mexicans are the real problem here. Anyone visiting
Tijuana (next to San Diego), for example will see hundreds upon hundreds of
small businesses working away for their entrepreneurial owners.
These Northern Mexicans aspire to owning their own business despite all odds
against them to succeed. The most striking visual is that many of these
people are, in fact, Southern Mexicans.
Southern Mexicans, like their geographic brethren in Southern America, are
less educated, less wealthy and more dependent on government than Northern
Mexicans who resemble Western Americans in spirit and accomplishment.
One need only look around Southern California to see how a Southern Mexican
Diaspora has filled the ranks of Booming California.
In California, illegals from Southern Mexico, mostly Indians, have helped
California reach the heights of the economic world; they’ve helped feed
North America; they’ve filled factories with hard-working willing workers.
So, why can’t they do the same in Southern Mexico, in the states of
Michoacan. Oaxaca and Chiapas, the three Southern states that send the most
men to the USA?
What they need is help in the form of capital investment, infrastructure and
attention from the government in the form of health and medicine protections
outside the Mexican Social Security system that are limited to those with
real jobs. They mostly don’t have such amenities because they are so Indian
in social and economic structure.
The Southern Mexican Indian continues to live like 1920s rural Mexicans
except in California and Baja California’s Tijuana where they thrive in 2006
as modern Mexicans building Toyota trucks, Sony and Panasonic plasma
televisions and hundreds of other modern industrial products known
throughout the civilized world.
President Calderon has access to the wealthiest men in the world, men and
women with huge sums of money they can invest. He sits on top of a
government that can build infrastructure. He can and must reform the police
and judicial systems of Mexico and enlist and direct stronger anti-drug
fighters in the Army.
Building roads, ports, schools, better federal police and a judicial system
that works for all are all necessary for Mexico to progress and leave the
Third World portions of Mexico in the ash heap of history.
President Felipe Calderon, a former congressman who earned a Master’s Degree
at Harvard, can start by building a coalition of his party and the old
ruling PRI party and its members in Congress. The coalition takes the number
one party in Congress (Calderon’s PAN) and the number three party (the PRI)
and isolates the leftists.
The Grand Coalition of the PAN and PRI must build Mexico by rolling over the
leftist idiots who continue to obstruct the political and legal progress in
Mexico and of Mexicans. Mexicans, Canadians and Americans will benefit from
a new Calderon-well directed Mexico.
Contreras' books, THE ILLEGAL ALIEN: A DAGGER INTO THE HEART OF AMERICA and A HISPANIC VIEW OF AMERICAN POLITICS AND THE POLITICS OF IMMIGRATION are available at www.amazon.com and www.barnesandnoble.com