I post Jorges comment on the article, East Bay Man Murdered in Puerta Vallarta, by Jack Lee because I thought some of his comments deserve to be highlighted. I take Jorges remarks as a warning more than a threat.
** Mexicans envi(envidia) and hate norteamericanos an that is the basis for much of what is wrong in Mexico now and the rise of Partido Comunista es un partido poltico. The Gringo’s have always had the upper hand but now the communistas are making much progress because they are able to use this long standing hate to unite political factions to one purpose an one cause. Money for cocana empowered them an terrorist tactics make people fear and respect there authority. Local revolucionarios are currently very small portion of the political element within Mexico, but do not underestimate their power. They have growing popularity with the Mexican people because they promise stability an equality in this country that has known neither only corruption poverty and despair. **
** Mexicans have never held there northern neighbors in more contempt as they now do an is getting worse every day. This is because Lenin es hero to the people, we hear Lenin fundament las tareas y el modelo del partido comunista y la Libertad seguir! Mexico politics be it the PAN or Partido Accin Nacional or the PRD Partido de la Revolucin Democrtica they both blames rich Gringos (you) as the enemy of the Mexican people. The PRD say only through revolution can the people of Mestizo blood defend themselves an protect their futures within socialis government. A government that promises land reform an is strongly anti-American. There are a lot of big guns in Mexico and this because of you money for cocana that comes from big cities in United States. You is supporting the revolucin movimiento that will one day reclaim much of what was taken in Arizona, New Mexico, California an Texas. You no go to Mexico for tourist visit? Maybe you right it is not safe for you it is peligroso danger. submitted by Jorge **
I hope Jorge’ will come back to let us know what he wants and supports. Would he prefer that Mexicans succeed in creating freedom, democracy and prosperity in Mexico or is he on the side of the Leninists pushing for communism south of our borders? Perhaps Jorge’ can also tell us whether most of Mexico’s citizens are aware of the treaty that forms some of our mutual history:
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
This treaty, signed on Feb. 2, 1848, ended the war between the United States and Mexico. By its terms, Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory to the United States.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
In November 1835, the northern part of the Mexican state of Coahuila-Tejas declared itself in revolt against Mexico’s new centralist government headed by President Antonio Lpez de Santa Anna. By February 1836, Texans declared their territory to be independent and that its border extended to the Rio Grande rather than the Rio Nueces that Mexicans recognized as the dividing line. Although the Texans proclaimed themselves citizens of the Independent Republic of Texas on April 21, 1836 following their victory over the Mexicans at the Battle of San Jacinto, Mexicans continued to consider Tejas a rebellious province that they would reconquer someday. In December 1845, the U.S. Congress voted to annex the Texas Republic and soon sent troops led by General Zachary Taylor to the Rio Grande (regarded by Mexicans as their territory) to protect its border with Mexico. The inevitable clashes between Mexican troops and U.S. forces provided the rationale for a Congressional declaration of war on May 13, 1846. Hostilities continued for the next two years as General Taylor led his troops through to Monterrey, and General Stephen Kearny and his men went to New Mexico, Chihuahua, and California. But it was General Winfield Scott and his army that delivered the decisive blows as they marched from Veracruz to Puebla and finally captured Mexico City itself in August 1847. Mexican officials and Nicholas Trist, President Polk’s representative, began discussions for a peace treaty that August. On February 2, 1848 the Treaty was signed in Guadalupe Hidalgo, a city north of the capital where the Mexican government had fled as U.S. troops advanced. Its provisions called for Mexico to cede 55% of its territory (present-day Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, and parts of Colorado, Nevada and Utah) in exchange for fifteen million dollars in compensation for war-related damage to Mexican property. Other provisions stipulated the Texas border at the Rio Grande (Article V), protection for the property and civil rights of Mexican nationals living within the new border (Articles VIII and IX), U.S. promise to police its side of the border (Article XI), and compulsory arbitration of future disputes between the two countries (Article XXI). When the U.S. Senate ratified the treaty in March, it deleted Article X guaranteeing the protection of Mexican land grants. Following the Senate’s ratification of the treaty, U.S. troops left Mexico City.