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"Nobody Knows Nothin'"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow, you can cut that prose with a knife.


Hey, wonder if the media will describe the current Florida police state abuse as black(s)-on-white crime:


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23144420

2/14/08, 7:56 AM

Blogger Dutch Boy said...

Sr. Diaz was a faithful servant of Yanqui capitalists. There was no surer way to get yourself lionized in the American press in those days.

2/14/08, 8:28 AM

Anonymous Tripp said...

"It would be hard to exaggerate his deserts, so great and wonderful have been the results of his life's work for his country. ... The well-informed person knows that nobody can write about Diaz with praising him in generous phrases."

Wow, "great and wonderful". The striking thing about that is how unashamed people were about being positive in those days. As to the second sentence I quoted ... is there a typo in it?

2/14/08, 11:50 AM

Anonymous JAN said...

I suspect a lot of Yanquis and Canadians were supportive of Diaz in 1910 for bringing long-term stability, progress and the perpetual *promise* of democracy to Mexico. Diaz was very pro-business and relatively welcolming and protective of foreign and US investments in particular (over 50% while Americans owned 27% of the land in Mexico).

This book (probably written before Diaz's 1910 election perfidity) and its reviews most likely didn't take into account Diaz's change of heart in giving potential presidential candidates posts abroad, jailing them and engaging in massive ballot fraud.

These things predictably led to the return of chaos in Mexico - what had been the historical norm.

Regarding Obama, yes he may be a pig in a poke and push some extreme and damaging agendas. Given his personality, history, rhetoric, aspirations and relatively uncompromising rise to power - he's probably a much higher risk than the steady image he projects.

You can trust Obama will bring "Change", but what kind and how much, I don't think anyone knows (not even Obama).

2/14/08, 12:38 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah, Dutch Boy, Mexico was so much better off with Diaz overthrown and 1 million dead, and the PRI counting the votes. But I'm sure that, somehow, it was all America's fault...

And "Yanqui Capitalists"? Sheesh, do people still talk like that, or is this some of that there "irony" all the kids seem to like so much these days?

2/15/08, 12:26 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anon -

Hey, unbunch your Depends old man and don't go shooting the messenger. That America has a tremendous economic influence in prerevolutionary Mexico which was one of the causes is a fact - I did not offer it as a justification.

Most Mexicans I've met in Mexico were far more proud of kicking out foreign, especially US, businesses and nationalizing key industries like oil than they are embarassed about the 1-2M killed in their civil war.

The "Captialist" thing is more mooted now but Yanqui or Americano is still a negative term from the Mexican political and historical context (not cultural).

2/15/08, 1:23 PM

Anonymous anony-mouse said...

I wonder if Intrade gives awards? Maybe when we get the first Intrade millionaire then we can find somebody who really knows something.

2/15/08, 4:14 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Most Mexicans I've met in Mexico were far more proud of kicking out foreign, especially US, businesses and nationalizing key industries like oil than they are embarassed about the 1-2M killed in their civil war"

I'm sure that this is true, and that tells you a lot about what is wrong with Mexico today...

Certainly Diaz was friendly with American business interests, but he was also a pretty good ruler, at least for that time and place. The U.S. has almost certainly has presidents worse than Diaz, although admittedly that may be a pretty low bar. I am just suggesting that there MIGHT have been more to some of the kudos Diaz got than just "Yanqui Imperialism".

Also, you may consider my Depends unbunched. Thank you for your concern, Sonny... :)

2/16/08, 3:28 PM

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