by Ramin Mazaheri for The Saker Blog
Why do we often forget how powerful Mexico is?
130 million people; undoubtedly the most powerful Spanish-speaking country (Brazil speaks Portuguese); a geographical location truly on top of the Latino world; access to both oceans; a historical cradle of civilisation with claims that can fairly said the be unrivaled; the world’s most developed economy accessible with the fewest shipping costs, and unparalleled expatriate influence in said economy.
On the international level, Mexico’s Augustin Carstens was narrowly edged by France’s Christine Lagarde for the head of the International Monetary Fund, which is the 2nd-most important global finance post. Carstens would have been the first non-Western IMF chief. Clearly, the neoliberal West’s version of their best and brightest mullahs/Chinese Communist Party members – central bankers – respect Mexican ideas for solutions in the 21st century.
And yet it feels like mighty Mexico is often an afterthought in geopolitics?
Conversely, no “Canadian Power” movement is needed: one can easily spot a Canadian abroad because they tattoo their luggage, clothing and even bodies with maple leaf flags. They say it is to differentiate themselves from hated Americans – fine… but it also shows that Canadians are vocal nationalists with a chip on their shoulder. The global banker elite aren’t likely to back a Canadian for a top post – such a nominee would either be a willing lapdog of the US, England, France or all three. But despite Canada’s comparatively reduced potential, importance and global impact, Western sociocultural perception undoubtedly values Canada higher than Mexico.
After Donald Trump was elected I wrote that a certain consequence would be the rise of a “Mexican Power” movement. There was certainly going to be a major backlash to “build the wall” and other anti-Latino rhetoric. Of course, the root of Trump’s Brownbaiting success was not hillbilly racism, but anti-capitalist discontent caused by unenforced worker rights, no wage guarantees and no protections on prices – the Western Mainstream Media can never discuss any of those things.
The arrival of Trump was, I reasoned, certain to lead a movement which would declare: The reality of Mexican Power can no longer be denied, because denying it would lead to massive imprisonment, violence, sociocultural shock, US economic and agricultural turmoil, etc.
My claim made total sense, because there is so very, VERY much to discuss about “Mexicans” in the US (for many in the US, all Latinos are “Mexicans”… just as all East Asians are “Chinos” to many in Mexico, according to Mexican commentators.) Latinos are 17% of the population, yet they are almost totally absent from US popular and political culture, like Kurds in Turkey. It is not 1919 anymore: go to an any small town in any part of the US – not just the southwest – and you can now find some Latinos… yet there is no “Mexican Power”.
It often takes a fascist/reactionary shock to galvanise the silent majority, and the US silent majority is undoubtedly talking to, working with, dating, marrying and being friendly with Latinos. In early 2017 I predicted that the US was going to out-leftist France with my hypothesised “Mexican Power” movement: if France chose another mainstream politician in their upcoming presidential election – which they did in Emmanuel Macron – France’s Muslims could not benefit from this very necessary type of “shock” to their similarly-delayed civil rights improvement. France remains ensconced in their velvety self-conceit – even as Yellow Vests are beaten weekly.
But are Mexicans in the US doing any better?
I was not overly optimistic nor overly militant two years ago – pro-Hillary mayors and voters boldly talked of creating “sanctuary cities”, and of defying any and all of Trump’s anti-Mexican proposals. They were going to defend their Mexican neighbors!
But 2.5 years into Trump’s presidency, it is clear that I have been largely disproved.
Eleven random reasons to explain why I was wrong
- Hispanics are often illegal aliens, who reflexively shrink from government and media sunshine. Conversely, US Blacks in the 1950s and 1960s had nowhere to go (like the Vietcong) and that made them more radical and more demanding for “Black Power”.
- Under Trump the MSM all of a sudden started doing major reporting on governmental abuses of Latino immigrants… not as a way to advance “Mexican Power”, but solely as a way to denigrate Trump. Disgustingly, they said nothing when Obama set records as the “deporter in chief”. The MSM would rather endlessly masticate sour grapes over Trump’s victory than reassess their totally class-devoid worldview. They are thus manipulating Mexicans for their own ends, and the focus on immigration abuses is actually taking potential column inches away from the larger issue of broad Latino empowerment.
- The post 9/11 militarisation of local US police forces makes resistance technologically daunting and militarily impossible. I’d rather face the dogs and water hoses of the 1960s instead of tanks.
- Just as Stalin robbed banks to fund the anti-monarchy & pro Socialist Democracy resistance, and just as Los Angeles gangs aided their Black Power brothers with a few shotguns and rifles, the emergence and dominance of an incredibly tragic drug trade has depoliticised Hispanic “criminal-radical” elements. Crystal meth is not conducive for serious political reflection (or so I have read). The difference between a facial-tattooed MS-13 member, as compared with a 1960s Nation of Islam member in Detroit or a bold soul brother in Oakland, appears to be rather vast.
- American anti-Roman Catholicism is a hugely underreported phenomenon. A Catholic friend of mine asked me to try and find a pro-Catholic story in The New York Times and I am still looking many years later (and now so will you). Conversely, US Blacks were overwhelmingly Protestant, which gave them a real cultural advantage over today’s Latinos. This advantage is as important as it was for the Christian Syrians who allied with the colonising French in the 19th century – the result is referred to as “Lebanon”. The MSM’s distaste for Catholics is also why the US can never promote a Catholic “Father” Martin Luther King” to arrive as the figurehead of a Mexican Power movement – only a “Reverend” is permitted.
- US anti-Catholicism notwithstanding, Western secularism – especially in Europe – has only grown more entrenched since the 1960s. Thus the Catholic Church (even in the increasingly rare instances when their also increasingly-secular clergy want to be involved) – has not been permitted to be as publicly involved in Mexican Power, where as the Protestant Church played a hugely vital role in maintaining the Black civil rights movement. Even with the rise of the US evangelical movement, the public face of political secularism has only increased – clergy must be quiet.
- Anglo-Saxon multiculturalism, which the US practices, is more culturally and personally agreeable than French assimilationism, but it effectively promotes a divided tribalism (as opposed to a conservative, backwards-looking nationalism in France); both of these Western approaches are total failures compared with leftist classism, which rejects identity politics. The Political Correctness movement, which did not exist for Blacks in the 1960s, may have given more superficial “respect” to Latinos, but Political Correctness has absolutely no ability to increase unity – only to increase awareness. Sadly, many US fake-leftists believe that “awareness” – and annoyingly pushing said “awareness” – is the absolute pinnacle of leftist political action. It is not – Mexican Power is far higher.
- Islamophobia has proven to be the best political retardant in centuries. A “Mexican Power movement” necessarily implies the existence of a parallel “anti-US imperialism movement”. This existed in the 1960s for Vietnam, and obviously fed righteous political criticism against Jim Crow policies. But because the US public is so overwhelmingly behind their Islamophobic-based “war on terrorism” in the 21st century, jingoism and unreflective racism in the US are at a historic peak; the intellectually pathetic Russophobia campaign is proof of this. Anti-Islam has been thus even more galavinizing for reactionaries than anti-socialism was in the 20th century: Islamist candidates do not exist in the West, whereas a socialist candidate once got millions of presidential votes in even the US. Islamophobia is nearly as politically stultifying as anti-Black slavery and the consensus that US Whites simply must wage an anti-American Indian genocide/segregation campaign. The success of the Islamophobia campaign has thus reduced any talk of a Mexican Power campaign.
- The arrival of Mexican President AMLO ignored: After the failed scaremongering campaign to keep him from getting elected, I never read anything about AMLO in English. The math is clear: because he is a leftist politician, he must be ignored. Similarly, we heard much less about the Yellow Vest in the Anglophone media after the initial burst: it was leftist, so it must be ignored. By ignoring AMLO’s presence and advances Mexican Power is certainly not aided.
- Language barrier: 1960s Blacks did not have this “safety valve” which all us immigrants do. Cursing at Trump in a foreign language feels rather good, but from a political-cultural standpoint it is a regression.
- This requires the least comment as it is the most obvious: US leftists are fake leftists, and the agenda of US leftism extends only to the rights and needs of Whites in the upper-middle class.
So when is Mexican Power going to take off? This column is long enough – you tell me.
Are Mexicans and Latino-Americans the same? No, but they all appear to be punching below their weight in the US-dominated world – this is why I may have been wrong, so far, about a “Mexican Power” movement, but I certainly haven’t given up on it.
Just look at the numbers, gabacho (specifically, #2 here to understand that word): Mexican Power is a historical inevitability which Trump cannot stop, and there are still 1.5 years left for him to spark the fuse.
Ramin Mazaheri is the chief correspondent in Paris for Press TV and has lived in France since 2009. He has been a daily newspaper reporter in the US, and has reported from Iran, Cuba, Egypt, Tunisia, South Korea and elsewhere. He is the author of I’ll Ruin Everything You Are: Ending Western Propaganda on Red China. His work has appeared in various journals, magazines and websites, as well as on radio and television. He can be reached on Facebook.
Mexicans are among the most understandably cynical people I have ever met, having experienced the corruption and oppression in Mexico. Most Mexicans just want to make some money and keep out of trouble.
‘Poor Mexico-so close to America and so far from God’.
You are close,but the quote from the 19th century Mexican President goes “Poor Mexico,so far from God,and so near to the United States”.
Memory is approximate, muchly.
Immigrants from Mexico: The most recent ones are here as strikebreakers to vote the CIA-Democrats into power for goodies provided.Please note that New York State is giving out driving licenses with which immigrants can register to vote per the California model. Mexicans are very saavy when it comes to the corrupt moves of the ruling class and, like most poor people in 3rd world countries, are very cynical when it comes to politician’s blah, blah, blahing about socialism.
The other more settled immigrants are hanging in and trying to fly under the radar i.e. not be noticed. Many of them travel back and forth to Mexico and are very informed as to what is happening in Mexico–politically as well as socially. Some are sending money back to relatives who are building retirement homes for them in their villages of birth. Dual citizenship/green card has its advantages. Those here illegally who are being paid under the table at the end of the day actually may be earning more than the legal workers who have about 1/3 of their pay taxed…yes, to pay for the benefits of illegals ( schools, health etc.)
How the system works is often not discovered by looking through the lens of a particular narrative, or using a political bias schema to understand and advocate. People, in their raw, immediate form, are much more creative and wonderful than scholarly formula can even begin to describe. And some are, like Trump said so rightly…animals ie. MS 13.–he ought to know as he is a predator on just a different level of power.
Immigrants are very family oriented and protective of their children. The PC agenda will not be tolerated when it comes to messing with their children. But like most ideologues, the so-called “educated” young bureaucrats in California are not going to back off in their fanatical mission to destroy the family by confusing children under the guise of giving them “choice”. i.e. eliminating childhood. This should be interesting.
The Hispanic Catholic church is alive and well at a local level. As for Islamaphobia–it is much overrated and overblown. Most Mexicans are about as wary of Jews as Muslims and the ones who worked for me really hated the Afro-Americans whose communities they lived near and with whom they competed for jobs.
The Dude heading Mexico is about as “Socialist” as is B Sanders. The reason he does not want to support the USA neocons in their attack against Venezuela is that it would lay the groundwork for the USA to do it ( again as in the past) to Mexico. No principled stand is involved.
Raman, thank you for opening the debate I am a latin american (Chile), and from this stand point one of the major motives in the latin american irrelevance has to be with an enormous inferiority complex as we are mestizo, rejected by the indigenous and the white, to be a second class citizen, with no history, pride or sense of unity. The catholicism acted as a way to bring some of these peoples together, but always keeped them under the grip of the white elites (in the cold war this was/is a major point). People here try to fight the system but it is constantly ignored, ridiculed and attacked by the latin american MSM (owned by same as always). So it is very important, specially in Mexico, to have pride, to have a motivation an ideas to move forward. But we are still in the white elites grip. Slowly but surely we will push back, times have begun to change.
There is really no point in feeling inferior due to being mestizo since 1) most latin americans “mestizos” except for the isolated groups, which are irrelevant and 2) Mestizo is not really a race but more of a genetic and phenotypic spectrum.
In reality there are really only two BIG ethnic groups in Latin America 1) the Prehispanics who are culturally, phenotypically and linguistically very diverse(not really all that much of an ethnic group then) and 2) Hispanics, culturally and linguistically more homogenous but genetically and phenotypically somewhat more diverse although there is an Iberian genetic “core” that binds most of us. I have said it many times, Hispanics/Latinos are not just Indians that speak spanish. We are basically southwest europeans with varying degrees of amerindian and african admixture.
We dont want to feel inferior, but we are EDUCATED to feel inferior (Chile is a prime example of that) And, here there are LOTS of ethnic groups and nationalities , and i dont even speak about our modern countries, but the ancient ones. With No respect to that, there is no respect for oneselves. All my life in my own country i have felted rascism just because i am dark skinned. From innocent school, to later in the real life. And i see it everywhere (in jobs, in the media, advertisements, etc) it is brutal. I Categorically refuse to call ourselves “south european”, man we are a mixed race, and the white part is a little part of it. And this race difference translate in an ideological clash that keeps the Latin American countries deeply divided. The church that supports the elite tries to get some of the people with them, but the others, are decades and decades of fighting and strugling.
The elites here are ALL subservient to the Anglozionist, All of them, the media, the industries, all of it. It is a war against the people. So in that context we must be aware and educate ourselves to break the chains and became Really independent countries.
In regards to the “white inferiority complex” among mestizos, that exists even in Europe and in Iberia. Believe it or not there are “dark” europeans that do not fit into that white european ideal. Just look at how Joan of Arc has been whitewashed even though the historical sources describe her as “dark”, olive skin tone, dark hair and dark eyes. If you think the Spanish are “nordic”, then you are in for a rude awakening.
In regards to the Latin Americans being the descendents of Native Americans, that is partially true, especially in regards to our maternal lineages. In reality though, the Spanish conquest did have a massive genetic and demographic impact. The conquest was very similar to the conquests of Britain, Iberia or India by the Indo-Europeans(which NO, they were not a nordic or “white” population, actually the geneticists say that they were rather “light brown”). R1b-L23(the main paternal marker in Western Europe and before that the main marker of the Indo-European Yamnaya culture) and its subclades are the dominant paternal markers in Latin America. What does that say? That there was massive population replacement, especially of prehispanic males in what is now Latin America during the Spanish conquest. By consequence that means that most Latino males and females are descendents of conquistadors.
Honestly we know more about the past now than the people of the past knew. We know so much that old categories like “mestizo” are actually meaningless. But what is a mestizo? Simply a person of mixed Spanish and Amerindian ancestry? In that case many white latinos are mestizos since many of them do have amerindian ancestry. As I said mestizo is not a race nor an ethnic group but a genetic and phenotypic spectrum. Some mestizos will look more Iberian(not nordic) and others will look more prehispanic(Amerindian phenotypes can vary a lot, just look at the different appearances between the Mayans and the Lakota). But most of the time mestizos will be a phenotypic combination of Amerindian and Iberian features. Still why should we be singled out and be called mestizos, as if though we are the only group of people with mixed ancestry? Central Asians can technically be called mestizos, East Africans as well, hell even Europeans can be called mestizos since they are genetic and phenotypic MIX of mesolithic hunter gatherers, middle eastern farmers and central asian pastoralists.
Truth is man that white latin american elite is ignorant of all this new knowledge or willfully ignorant of it because it threatens their social position and nordicism. The only thing that keeps them in power is the force they have and the ignorance of the lower classes.
Also do not think I say this to make you feel bad, I am just trying to give you a clearer picture of history so you won’t feel bad about being “mestizo”. Be proud that you are latino, brown and patrilineally descended of indo-europeans.
“The only thing that keeps them in power is the force they have and the ignorance of the lower classes.” I would add the middle classes as well, I would even dare to say than the lower classes are much more awake than the middle classes, at least in the southern part of the continent.
Jason, you are correct as most of Southern Europe is basically darker (I call it they tan easy). Also we can not forget southern Spain and the Maurs (the name comes from the Greek word Mavri- which means dark skinned), who were the dark skinned people from Marocco (North-West Africa)?
Sorry I missed one essential point: Andalusia and its most amazing horses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andalusia
The problem with Mexico is the cowardly Mexican elite. I will include Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador since he just caved in to Trump’s demands in regards to the Central American migrant issue. Nevertheless, we still have yet to see if AMLO will step up to the whole Anglo American establishment once Trump starts making demands about illegal Mexican immigrants or else(impose tariffs). If he does give in then I predict Obrador’s popularity will start to decline. Mexico will become more politically and socially unstable. Ideal conditions, in my opinion, for a socialist revolution.
Mexico and Latin America for that matter are part of the greater West. The West being the civilization that grew from the Western Roman Empire into Latin Catholic Europe and which is currently dominated by a Northern Anglo-Germanic group(the Protestant Reformation helped them out). Basically all peoples that speak a Romance, Germanic or even Celtic language, whose culture(rural or urban) can be traced back to a Western European Romance or Germanic country and are either fully or partially genetically influenced by western europeans(patrilineally or matrilineally) are “Western Roman”. Anyway what I am trying to say with all of this is that whatever significant political, social or economic event happens in Latin America will inevitably spread to other parts of the “greater West”, and vice versa as well(as we can see how the American Revolution influenced the later Latin American revolutions).
So far in the West we have had movements that have really only diminished the power and influence of old feudal institutions. The Protestant Reformation split the Western Catholic Latin world into two. The French Revolution further diminished the role of the Catholic church in Western society. The Vatican II council has, in my opinion, dealt a final blow to the Catholic church. All the while the western middle classes(The different national bourgeoisies) have gained power. World War I and II were basically just wars between the different national middle classes, the big winner was the American or Anglo American middle class. So what exactly will come outof Mexico and the rest of Latin America? We have yet to see.
“The problem with Mexico is the cowardly Mexican elite. I will include Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador …”Would I be Mexican, I would have voted for AMLO. (but I am not Mexican, I am Argentinian). Having said this, AMLO surprised me (and not in a positive way), when he started pointing fingers to the Spaniards saying that the Spaniards did this or that 500 years ago, and had killed that one or the other one…and bla..bla…bla. If AMLO thinks that the enemies of the Spanish speaking Americans are the Spaniards AND NOT the Anglosaxons then he probably got everything wrong.The enemies of the Spanish speaking world are not other Spanish speaking countires but the Anglos. He should have pointed his fingers to the US who was the one that stole half of Mexico (or I would say a part of the Spanish speaking world). If tomorrow he says “US stole our land and should say sorry” I will start having respect for him, otherwise he is showing he is another coward like the rest of the Latin American leadership (like my own president) nowadays in power. (with a few exceptions)
I really was not surprised that he started pointing figures at the Spanish as if though we were living in the 19th century and the Spanish empire was still around. Honestly he is just one of the many old political “dinosaurs” of the incredibly stupid and old fashioned bourgeois Latin American elite. He himself has said that he wants to be remembered as another Benito Juarez, a liberal that was beholden to US intetests. And really the only reason Juarez is fondly remembered by Mexicans is because he fought the French and also stood against the Catholic church. Neither Mexico nor the rest of Latin America need these political fossils, neither that pathetic liberal right that is constantly scaring us about Cuba and Venezuela nor this weak left that is stuck in the 20th and 19th century.
We will see soon though if Obrador has the courage to stand up to the Anglo American elite once Trump starts threatening with tariffs if Mexico does not take back the illegal Mexicans in the US. Of course that is if Trump even gets re-elected, I’m starting to have doubts about that.
“neither that pathetic liberal right that is constantly scaring us about Cuba and Venezuela nor this weak left that is stuck in the 20th and 19th century.” Bingo.
I have a question now I have a Mexican in front of me. Why is that not even one Mexican politician says nothing about the “Great grab” of 1836 (Texas) and 1848 (southwest) when people like Trump says things like “Mexico has been profiting and stealing from US” ? If the US is going to attack with heavy words (in other words, propaganda) why not answer with heavier words ? I am not saying that the US is going to give the land back to Mexico but at least somebody will be telling them in their faces what they are (and have always been)…THIEVES.
Wow. The brainwashing is so complete! There is no “Chile”, or “Mexico”, or “Argentina”, or “Ecuador”, or “Honduras” etc. Those are fictional divisions, sometimes based on weak differences or more commonly based on purely made up differentiating traits.
In case that you don’t already know it, there were never “Independence” wars. Those were in reality a coup perpetrated by Masonic agents groomed and hired by the Khazarians in the City of London to destroy the Spanish Empire in America. San Martín, Bolívar, Hidalgo, Santander, O’higgins and many others were not heroes, on the contrary, they were traitors, masonic murderers. They caused civil wars within the regions because many knew what they were doing and rightfully fought against the traitors (Up to 85% of the fighters against the masonic coups were locals, including assimilated Indians). Unfortunately, the masonic perpetrators won, so they carried out their nefarious plans:
-> First, the application of the Divide and Conquer strategy. So their paymasters gave a determined territory to the respective Masonic gang. To cement the divisions, those Masons delimited the fictional frontiers and made up the names for the new banana republics. That’s why even the names and the delimitations must change to real and reasonable denominations
-> Those Masons and their families became the new oligarchies in their respective assigned territories. They perpetuated themselves in power, so those criminal families still rule each of the banana republics. That’s why the ruling classes are basically enemies of the general populations
-> As usual, they rewrote the history. So they enacted the perpetrators as the good guys, and completely covered up the role of the Masonic agents and of their paymasters in the coup. To double down on the brainwashing, the ziomedia took monopolistic control of the information in each territory
-> The Khazarian power is fundamentally a mafia. And the oligarchs in each of the banana divisions are their subordinates. As Killary says, they must “pay the price”. So in order to remain in power and not be assassinated by the Khazarian mafia through alphabet agencies, they must allow the permanent looting of the “res publica” (the public thing). That’s why and how the populations in Latinoamérica are kept in poverty
So, what to do? First, know the real history. Then, reject the masonic constitutions and laws (maritime and pirate laws) and replace them by rules based on the natural laws. Eliminate the artificial divisions and work out a general space of freedom and prosperity. Reintegrate not only Latinoamérica, but also, to a certain extent, the Latin populations in Europe. The consolidation of a Latin project will also inevitably include the Latin populations in the USSA, so the states in the south border will officially become bicultural and bilingual
@Anonius It is not just Andalusia but the whole of Southwest Europe. The Southern French, in large part, do not fit in nicely into that Nordic European ideal. This is even more true of Iberians. Of course there are light-pigmented people but overall, in comparison to Northern and North-Eastern Europeans, Southwestern Euros are “dark” pigmented. So where exactly does this nordicist obsession stem from? Personally I think it has to do with the historical alliance between the the Western Roman church(the Catholic church) and the Germanic peoples that became the old aristocracy in Western Roman countries like France, Spain, Portugal etc. And of course it has been strengthened by the fact that Northern European countries became more advanced(of course without all that American bullion coming into Europe via the Spanish, I doubt northern Europe would have advanced so much).
@Alejo Let us not forget that if the Latin American middle classes generally produce mediocre individuals they also produce heroic ones as well, I am talking about Che Guevara. He was wrong on many issues sure, but he understood well that Latin America had to be united and the main obstacle to that was the US. So in my opinion an updated Guevarismo will be helpful for Latin America. In regards to Mexican politicians not calling out the US, the reason is due to a combination of cowardice and greed. If the Latin American bourgeois elite is cowardly and greedy, it is especially more so with the Mexican elite. As I said, this elite wants that 20th and 19th century status quo to remain but hypocritically wants the benefits of an emerging 21st century. The Mexican elite just benefits too much from the lucrative economic relationship it has with the US. We are basically an informal colony of them and that post colonial liberal elite want it like that(hence why you have Obrador pointing fingers at the Spanish. It is done just to keep people within a specific historical context, the 19th and to an extent 20th century). The only solution I see for Mexico is some sort of civil war in order to exterminate those elitist parasites. Solamente los mas valientes e inteligentes sobreviveran en Mexico y en el suroeste Estadounidense.
I’m a fluent Spanish speaker married to an Ecuadorian. There’s a near zero chance of a Mexican Power movement in the US. You’re talking about the most depoliticized demographic: Chicanos have the lowest relative civic engagement levels by a large margin.
Chicanos don’t like Latino immigrants. My wife catches flak from them all the time. It’s not just lack of solidarity: it’s envy and hate because the latter speak Spanish and the former can’t, and yet the latter often end up better off economically compared to the ghettoized Chicanos.
Latinos don’t hate Whites like other races do, with some exceptions.
The author has no idea how atomized the US is. It is nothing like France or Iran. Nobody is rallying around anything except hustling and consuming. Political movements can’t grow in the US beyond a small minority.
One reason why “Mexican Power” is a fantasy is because large portions of the Mexican population are basically unreconstructed Aztecs. These are people who’s civilization and economy for hundreds of years was organized around the singular task of enslaving and then ritually sacrificing South American peoples to their Sun god by cutting out their still-beating hearts. It is quite preposterous to believe a more or less stone age people capable of operating or maintaining a modern nation-state, let alone “taking power” on a multipolar global stage.
Lol nice fantasy. We may night be as “enlightened” as you germanics or germanic influenced people but we are not stone age people. Also we are certainly not just indians that speak spanish, look at my previous comments.
Mexico will never achieve first world status like South Korea. Mexico will remain a source of narcotics, cheap labor, and harvested human organs. Both the American and the Mexican elites are happy with the current status quo.
We have plenty of unskilled illiterate single mothers in the USA already. We don’t need any more crossing the border. Mexican culture encourages its young people to stop their education after 8th grade and go find a trade. Mexican girls are celebrated as grown up women at age 15. It is one of the most anti-intellectual countries on the planet.
What galls native American-born citizens is how the Mexicans living in the USA have a sense of entitlement even after fleeing their home country.
To the question: Mexican power would only begin to pay off once the drug cartels are mercilessly put down and after Mexico issues a silver-backed currency. It will otherwise remain a violent banana republic.
I like the way you germanics complain about traditional cultures and their lack of sophistication. But at the same time many of you will complain about your own weak and effeminate population(created by that “sophisticated”, urban, commercial culture). No thanks, we will retain our Iberian backwardness and reject, mostly, Germanic “Enlightenment”.