What do you think about the political in Mexico?
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The government is the result of the post-revolutionary conniving of the upper classes. The political edifice they erected was one based on preserving the interests of the elite. And so its been. \n\nBy promoting a post-revolutionary nationalism, they have been able to pacify the masses. At the same time, the flawed system has increased inquality that's engendered all manner of corruption.\n\nThe way of cleaning up the government is by separating the elite's interest's from the government's.\n\nIf you think about it, America is much the same way... except for the fact that the capital accumulated has been allowed to trickle down in a way that pacifies the populace and makes them blind to the questionable dealings of the elite.
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That's Mexicos problem.  They can deal with it however they see fit or whatever their laws deems.
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You won't find much hate here, there's some loud-mouths, and there's one guy that asks really 'interesting' questions, like he's trying a little bit of the old race-baiting gambit, there...\n\nMainly, though, you find some good dialogue going back and forth.\nImmigration, AND illegal immigration, are hardly issues confined solely to Mexico, or to the USA, for that matter. This'n's GLOBAL in its' scope and implications.\n\nEver read a book called The Population Bomb? It's worth a read...the guy's a little 'out there', but the book does give a couple good perspectives and different ideas on stuff...\n\nYou keep  hearing about 'growth', and how it's supposed to be great for the economy and all that. But, there's a flip-side to 'growth', a negative, less-publicized side, which is worth full review and discussion also, so beware some of these pro-immigration enthusiasts and their shiny-eyed kool-aid drinking B.S\n\nImmigration, like many other issues, has lots of facets and perspectives. Don't just listen to one group/voice etc....
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And how does allowing illegal immigrants into our County help them improve their situation in their country?\n\nRather than entering our Country illegally, they should gather together in their own country and demand political reform.\n\nThe Mexican peoples are intelligent, hard working and ingenious.  There must be grass roots leaders among them who can organize a political revolution.\n\nIt is not the fault of the U.S. that the government is corrupt; frankly, we have our own corrupt government issues to deal with.\n\nPeople do not have to be wealthy to make something happen; they just have to be united and determined.\n\nLook up the statistics ... the REAL statistics ... of how many in the U.S. live below the poverty level.  You might find yourself amazed.\n\nI'm sorry for the troubles the people of Mexico are having, but we have our own problems that need to be fixed and we are going to HAVE to concentrate on HOME for a while.
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Mexico has EVERYTHING it needs to be a top notch nation. except desire. These people either lack the know how or desire to do it. I sense a civil war is going to happen in Mexico soon. The people there need to find their "Neo"
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I am not all too familiar with Mexican candidates, but Lopez Obrador seems like the best choice to me.\nMexico has had enough of free market policies and neo-liberalism already, NAFTA has destroyed and ruined Mexican farmers and small industrialists and is replacing mexican native factories with sweatshops of multinational companies.\n\nThe place of Mexico belongs with the rest of Latin America, specially now that the trade blocks of MERCOSUR and the Hugo Chavez's ALBA (Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas) are consolidating in South America to defy the US-backed "Washington Consensus".\nWe are witnessing the terrible poverty, de-industrialization and social inequality brought by so-called "free" market, and we have had enough of it.\n\nThe best option for Mexico, I think, lies in the Zapatistas  and like-minded groups, but they have little chance of winning the elections (besides, the EZLN is not even participating). Therefore, to avoid the corporate-lobbist, oligarchic, FTTA-backer Vicente Fox, Obrador seems like the best choice to me. \nSaludos desde Argentina.\n\n\nEDIT: Yes, NAFTA has created more commerce. But has that served to improve the well-being of ordinary mexicans? Last time I checked, social inequality in mexico was actually increasing, not decreasing.\nBesides, I'd rather have proper employment and industrialization, and not sweathops. I do not consider sweatshops a "step" in comparison to the previous situation...but maybe that's just me, right?
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I think PAN candidate is going to win, its a good thing for a country to have some continuity in office.\n\nNow I'm not saying Calderon is the best candidate but its better than Communist Lopez Obrador or Madrazo who's considered a warlord.\n\nAnyway that's what i think, the important thing is that Mexicans go out and vote
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The problem with Mexico is how much they waste their resources. The contractors that pave the roads will use the cheapest materials and inexperienced labor but charge the government extremely high prices. The government officials accept this because they get a big bribe from contractors. The corruption is what is keeping the people poor in Mexico, there are warehouses full of food spoiling at this very minute, bought by the party candidates to buy votes, but since a new law of the  Federal Electorate Institute forbides to use food for votes, its all wasting away. I read Spanish Internet newspapers to get info, so that is where my sources come from.  Just to open a private business in Mexico, involves bribes so unbelievable that only the the wealthy can afford. The people are fleeing from poverty, its hard to fight against a government so corrupt within.  Recently, Flower vendors that stood up against the government were arrested, severely beaten and killed. Mexico is rich for the rich, and only poverty awaits for the poor and underprivileged. Fox's wife, instead of purchasing towels for 400 dlls each for her personal use, costing the the taxpayer, should invest in buying wheelchairs for her people. All her and Fox's clothing is payed by the taxpayer purchased in NY or France. And the woman never wears a dress twice. She put her hand me downs on auction, and not even the elite women bought them, appalled by the asking price. All this is what makes Mexico a Third World country despite it's wealth.
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great question?  We need to get involved in helping to reform the Mexicans political system and get involved in helping them to find a better way of life in their own country!
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People in the USA have absolutely no idea of what's at stake this time. People are facing a difficult choice, not a single candidate is worth a damn so the answer is to choose the one least likely to do more harm than has already been done. The candidates are:\n\nAndrés Manuel López Obrador - a Hugo Chavez wannabe. (honestly do you really want some guy like that running your next door neighboring country) Populist extreme who will set Mexico back by at least 25 years.\n\nRoberto Madrazo - Of the PRI, the longest ruling dictatorial party in Mexican history (70 YEARS) they lost the presidential election in 2000. Now they claim they learned their lesson and that they know how to govern, and that this time they will do it right.  Nope, not a good choice, corrupt and sneaky, definitely no way. YOu can't teach an old dog new tricks.\n\nFelipe Calderon - from the PAN the party of the elite, the wealthy, businessmen, and very very very involved with the catholic church. He will at the very least continue Mr. Fox's work. I still don't know if that is a good or bad thing, but one has to understand that trying to fix 70 years of corruption and mismanagement in 6 years is not possible.  Maybe he's the only kind of safe choice.\n\nPatricia Mercado - Well educated, expresses herself very well, good ideas, but she's a woman and in Mexico she does'nt have a fighting chance at all.\n\nThe devaluation rumor has been strong only if Lopez Obrador gets to be President, because as in the past, the rich will immediately transfer all their money to the USA and of course that means a devaluation. Yep, we Mexicans know about devaluations, lived with it for at least 30 years.\n\nAnd by the way. Mexico is not a third world country, the term is not even in use anymore. Mexico is far better off than many other nations. Regardless of a host of bad governments, bad presidents, bad choices, bad decisions. There are good people here who just want a dignified life and job opportunities to do so.
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Because Mexico has had it really hard to build a Democracy. With out a democracy it is really hard to create a good Economy and with out a good Economy it is hard to create the same opportunities for everyone (food, place to live, education, employment, etc...) So it is not that the gov of Mexico wants to play rude with mexicans. It is question of politics. And yes, i agree with the person above me, civic culture is not learned at school so unfortunately there is corruption in the government. So, it is hard for us to keep all of us happy because we live in a place we love but many of us are poor and do not have the opportunities we wish for. \nThe basic difference (in a historic sight) is that the US started from cero, and Mexico started from 300 years of spanish coloniage. During those days Spain was not as GB in the sense of democracy and liberties, Parliament representation etc... So we had a bad example, so to speak. And a really unequal society to begin with. On the contrary the US had an equal society and therefor they could build a stable democracy and a stable free country (free economy and free life). For us, during the 19. Centrury, it was really hard to build a proper State because we were on war the whole century, independance war, invasions (US, France) and civil war. Until 1920 that formally the civil war ended we had a "democratic" government under a democratic constitution, but this government, in order to create peace between the revolutionary parties, created a state party the PRI, and this party stayed during 70 years on the government. So, until the early 80`s we had a real party system. Then until 2000 another party won the presidential race and we had Fox as president. Fox has tryied to make better conditions (economicall as well as social) but it is not so easy and less in this times when the economy of a country depends on the global trade. And what makes our situation worse is that we have to trade and compete with one of the most powerful economies in the world: the US, because of our geografical situation. And because of that, Mexico is isolated from Sudamerica also, where they have their own cooperation system in a more simetric way. So to answer to your question Mexico wants to keep their people happy, Mexico wants to secure the land. Mexicans love their country (i love my country) but it is not so easy you know? That is one of the reasons many people do not like the opinions of US citizens in these matter, because for us democracy and freedom are so hard to get, and for you are so normal. It is not normal and it is REALLY hard to get.
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who knows- we will see!!!\n\ni thought i heard some talk about mexico on the show tonight. hmm...
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That Their PROTESTS Are So RIDICULOUS That Their Government LAUGHS And Pays No Attention To Them\n\nMaybe They Can Learn Something From The CRIMINALS That Are Protesting In OUR Nation\n\nOr Maybe The Criminals Should March Their ILLEGAL @$$ES Back To Mexico City And Protest THERE \n\nAfter The Naked Pageant, These Criminals Would Raise A Few Eyebrows In The Mexican Govt
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Nothing New About It\n\nhttp://www.limitstogrowth.org/WEB-text/aztlan.html\n\nIn 1997, then-President Zedillo proclaimed that \n“I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation \nextends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring the ''conquista,'' \nSpain tried to impose on Mexico \na common western language, religion, and culture, \nand to the degree it was successful.  \nIt was also anti-American.  \nWe should remember \nthat the Spaniards were building the great cathedral \nat the Zocolo in Mexico City \na hundred years before George Washington \ntook control of the Continental Army \nat Cambridge, Massachusetts.  \nHere are two different world views, sharing the same continent.\n\nIn his article, Clash of Civilizations?, \nSamuel P. Huntington reminds us \nthat cultural differences may cause future wars, \nand that these wars will be along cultural ''fault lines.''  \n\nThe U. S.--Mexican border is one of those fault lines.  \n\nHuntington writes, \n''Civilization identity will be increasingly important in the future,\nand the world will be shaped in large measure \nby the interactions among seven or eight major civilizations \n\nThe most important conflicts of the future \nwill occur along the cultural fault lines \nseparating these civilizations from one another.'' \n\nIn regard to Mexico, Huntington writes, \n''During the past decade, \nMexico has assumed a position \nsomewhat similar to that of Turkey. \nJust as Turkey abandoned its historic opposition to Europe \nand attempted to join Europe, \nMexico has stopped defining itself \nby its opposition to the United States \nand is instead attempting to imitate the United States.''  \nHowever, \nunlike Canada, \nMexico has a large, nonwestern, indigenous population \nthat has not yet been integrated into modernity.  \nThis native population also carries \nan unconscious weight of resentment \ntowards the Spanish conquest, \nwhich it now mistakenly displaces onto the U. S. \n\nMexico's indigenous population \nis one of the contemporary strains in that society.  \nSub-Comandante Marcos \nand the uprising in Chiapas of indigenous people \nis a prediction of what is to come in Mexico \nif that strain cannot be relieved.\n  \nThe Mexican elites have decided, therefore, \nto reduce this strain by sending north \nas many poor and jobless Mexicans as they can.  \nInstead of solving their own problems, \nwhich might entail a reduction of their status, \nthe ruling Mexican elites have decided to keep the fiesta going\nand let the U. S. handle the cleanup. \n\nA top adviser \nto past Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari \ndescribed to Huntington all the changes \nthe Salinas government was making.  \nWhen the advisor finished, Huntington remarked: \n''That's most impressive.  \nIt seems to me that basically you want to change Mexico \nfrom a Latin American country into a North American country.''\nHe looked at me with surprise and exclaimed: \n''Exactly!  \nThat's precisely what we are trying to do, \nbut of course we could never say so publicly.'' \n \nWhat also could not be said publicly \nis that Mexico wants to reclaim its ''lost'' territory.  \nIt will use economics and illegal immigrants to do this.\n\nMany Mexican elites believe that to become a modern nation,\nMexico has to restructure its economy \nand regain the territory it lost during the first Mexican war.  \nFor over a century, \nMexican nationalists have used the myths and symbols \nof a lost but glorious indigenous past \nto motivate its plans for expansion. \n \nD. H. Lawrence wrote about this myth building in his novel, \nThe Plumed Serpent. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf the ''reconquista'' continues unchecked \nfor the next twenty years, \nthe U. S. will be a fundamentally different society than it is today.\n\nThere will be more poverty and low-wage jo
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Deporting and stopping illegal immigration will be great for Mexico actually. It will force the mexicans to change their ways and may be fix the problems of pollution, corruption in government, and overpopulation. They could become a normal country or another canada. then I would be in favor of some kind of open-border North american union thing.\nOr mexicans can live in the same hellhole they always were in.\n\nIllegal immigrants our loyal to Mexico and they made it clear. Saying things like "STOLEN CONTINENTS!" even though their ancestors were spanish (EUROPEANS) too. Also, mexicans' ancestors never lived in North america, the north american indians lived there.\n\nillegal Mexicans wave Mexican flags to basically say "we hate america and are loyal to Mexico, we're just here for the money and to leach off of your system!"\n\nIt is time for an Abraham Lincoln of mexico to rise up and heal central america and Mexico. Someone to end corruption. Stop illegals and yet at the same time get closer ties witht he USA.\n\n"I think there are alot of good men already in Mexico, I find it sad that you have never ventured there to find out. You'd have to get off your high horse first."\n\nreally? then why is there still a high crime rate, corruption in government, etc.. in Mexico? Where are these good politians in mexico you are talking about?\n\n"Why didn't those good men ( our founding fathers ) stay home and work to better their own country."\n\nActually, their colonies were apart of their country! New england belonged to Great Britian. So when they "immigrated" there they were actually still in their country and were thus trying to imrpove it.\n\n" USA didn't have to go over sea to find a country to help hell we drive there in a day . Only if Mexico had lots of oil..."\n\nRiiight. Actually the whole Middle East is sitting on oil. We didn't take any oil from Iraq (proven already). Explain why the oil prices are so high? High oil prices don't do any goood to USA.\nand lol, Mexico sits on TONS OF OIL! They supply USA with tons of it already. That is actually what causes a lot of their corruption to, if we can find an alternative source (Ethanol or hydrogen) then Mexico can't rely on rich Oil anymore!
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LOL trying to legislate the entire planet into the United States, are you? Face facts, that was then, this is now, and unless you really really want to face decades of nosebleed taxes to pay for overcrowding, more cops, more pollution, consider your choices wisely, because Mexico's just standing by for the green light...bone up on your spanish...of course, to be fair, it's not just mexico.\nProblem is, the more pre-load there is on your paycheck, \nthat eventually you'll be paying more and getting less in the way of any social services etc. A lot of people have developed an entitlement mentality these days, other people 'owe' them something, kind of like Sid Vicious's 'do they owe us a living'-type attitude. No one 'owes' you anything by virture of ethnicity, family name, or anything.\nMore people need to pull their socks up, and stop expecting handouts, and trying to paint our country as the mega-welfare agency. "Hey, let's go leech off america" isn't a good attitude, in my view. Lots of people just barely scraping by, out there as it is.\n\nAs hospitals etc. get overloaded, jail system gets overloaded, schools get overloaded, their effectiveness diminishes. People will demand that these services be expanded, and that the government pay for it. Well, you're part of the government, so again, vote with great consideration...\n\nI don't think the answer to global poverty is to make the United States a de-facto second-world country. Legal immigration is fine, illegal immigration is not, and as far as the indian thing goes, you're talking distant history, just like mexico losing the US/Mexico war, which they still apparently refuse to acknowledge? There's poverty in america too, and I think there's a general delusion, perpetuated by some rather unethical politicians, that blatant opportunism and cut-throat competition is the answer to the world's problems. Selling america down the river wholesale isn't going to solve any social problems, right any wrongs, and dumping another 100 million or so into the mix with impunity like the Senate apparently sees fit to do won't get the job done, either. \n\nI think it's time for people to dry their eyes, and look at the problems facing america, mexico and other nations in a new light, with an eye towards prevention and reform. You can't change the past. No one can jump in the time machine and go back and re-make the world or our country the way they think it should be. The strongest strategy, to my mind, is to try and improve what we've got. Mexico should be doing the same instead of just basically fleeing the scene of the crime...'blame america' just won't cut it.\nI have nothing against helping less fortunate people either, as long as it's 'hand up', not 'hand-out' etc...
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Mexico is a sovereign nation,  They should be able to fix themselves with little guidance.\nWe did not fix Canada and they have it figured out.\n\nIt would be great if Mexico had the same attitude as Canada.