The Mindszenty Report: Mexico - 1 of 4

The Mindszenty Report: Mexico – 1 of 4
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Wednesday, May 26, 2010

This is the monthly report of April, 2009. It helped me to understand what’s going on at the border. It may help you. Here are excerpts from that report, Vol. LI-No.4 – by Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation.

A Fragile Historical Context: America’s insatiable demand for drugs has projected the country’s immigration with Mexico in a new and more violent light. The mushrooming crisis on the border threatens to erupt into a fireball of chaos and turmoil. This scenario is not surprising, given the fragile historical context of past American relations with Mexico that dates back to the early 19th century.

The advent of Texas colonists and the expansionist phenomenon, known as “Manifest Destiny,” led to several military confrontations in the 1840s that culminated in the humiliation defeat of the Mexican army and the subsequent loss of millions of acres of land that now comprise at least five American states.

Since the “Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo” which ended the war in 1848, Mexico has remained embittered and resentful of the Yankee “Colossus of the North.” Despite many years of political and economic partnership with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) over the past two decades, an endemic hostility toward America still lingers throughout Mexican society. This national anger Las Reconquisda, which is dedicated to the return of all lost Mexican lands.

The last few Mexican presidents have emphatically reminded their people of their violent history with the U.S. In 1997 before a raucous Chicago throng which included the radical group La Raza, then president Ernesto Zedillo pro-claimed I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its border. La Raza Unida or the Unified Race is an association of gangs formed in the late 1960s and early 1970s with chapters throughout the American Southwest.

Their avowed purpose is to return large regions of the American Southwest that formerly belonged to Mexico by whatever means necessary. In 2004 then President Vincent Fox echoed his predecessors’ sentiments when he reminded Mexicans of their belief in a nation of history, blood and soil that pre-existed, and supersede any pledge of allegiance any Mexican may make to another country, especially to the United States.

An Open Civil War: Mexico’s historical rancor serves as then backdrop for a drug war that not only has enflamed both national borders but has also threatened each country’s relative stability. The March 7th issue of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1917 gave birth to a seemingly powerful state, democratic in appearance but authoritarian in nature, in which its major political party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, monopolized power. In such a system, the police were not required to solve crimes but only had to keep order. Organized crime and drug-related gangs and militias are now reaping what the politicians sowed 90 years ago.

While illegal immigration is the most commonly perceive border problem for the U.S., it is the powerful drug cartels that loom as a greater national public menace… to be continued
George H. Kubeck,