Vicente Fox is two important things: the former President of Mexico, and the former head of all Coca Cola operations in Mexico.
Over the last few months, he's made several statements about Trump and immigration:
"I'm not going to pay for that fucking wall."
"He [Trump] is the hated gringo because he's attacking all of us, he's
offending all of us, I mean imagine - that could take us to a war - not
to a trade war...Don't play around with us. We can jump walls. We can
swim rivers. And we can defend ourselves."
Regardless of what you think about immigration or Trump, there are a few
points to remember about Vicente Fox and the history of Mexico.
First, Fox, on his mother's side, is Spanish. As in: she comes from Spain.
From biography(dot)yourdictionary(dot)com: "He [Fox] was born July 2,
1942 in Mexico City but was raised on a communal farm in the state of
Guanajuato near Leon. His father was a rancher of Irish descent and his
mother came from Spain." (Oh,
wikipedia update: "The family was
unaware of its German origins and they believed the Fox family [on
Vicente's father's side] had their origins in Ireland until it was
discovered otherwise later in Fox's life.")
What difference does that make? The bottom-line argument for UNLIMITED
Mexican immigration is based on history: namely, the Mexican-American
War of 1846-48, and the peace treaty that surrendered Mexican
California, plus territories east of California, to the United
States---and solidified the US hold on Texas.
So the current immigration flood has the goal of "taking back what rightfully belongs to Mexico."
Except for one other historical fact: starting in 1519, Mexico no longer
belonged to the native Aztec population. It was grabbed by force. The
Spanish conquistadors won a war and overthrew the Aztec empire.
So if you want to argue history, "native Mexicans" aren't "winning back
Mexico for themselves." If immigration means winning, it's on behalf of
the men who took control of Mexico: Spanish conquerors.
Again, on his mother's side, Vicente Fox is Spanish. He isn't a "native Mexican." Not even close.
Indeed, native Mexicans have been buried at the bottom of the political structure in their own country for five centuries.
If you want to say that unlimited immigration will somehow win back
Mexico's lost territories in the US, be accurate. Immigration will win
back the territories for the descendants of the Spanish conquistadors.
But Vicente Fox has other matters to explain as well, and they have to
do with the effects of the Coca Cola Company on native Mexicans.
Remember, he was, for a time, the head of all Coke operations in
Mexico. Here, from a stunning article at
mexicolapchs(dot)blogspot(dot)com (
"Coca-Cola's Exploitation of Mexico," 5/8/2011), is another piece of history, this one more recent:
"While having a tight grip on the native people, Coca-Cola managed to
exploit Mexican land and its natural resources. 'Coke is also widely
produced in Mexico, an arrangement that is threatening the country's
water supplies and undercutting indigenous control of natural resources.
It takes three cups of water to make one cup of Coke'... As Coca-Cola
is using up Mexico's water supply to produce Coke, they are limiting
water for the native people, forcing them to consume more Coke. Health
issues like diabetes and obesity began to worsen as more Coke was
consumed because of the sugar and caffeine intake."
"Without natural resources to provide a healthy diet, the Mexican people
resorted to drinking only Coke which caused a rise in diabetes and
obesity. Due to Coca-Cola's economic venture, Mexico must cope with its
depleted resources, disintegrating government, and mistreatment of the
people. If Coca-Cola continues their profit making schemes, the people
of Mexico will have no control over their own government and land. Their
water supply will ultimately be destroyed and the health of the people
will plummet."
If Vicente Fox is arguing on behalf of "true Mexicans," he should look
to his own past, and the grotesque effects his company has had on that
population.
If you opened up the major media to authentic original Mexicans, with no
Spanish descendants of the conquistadors on board, the first thing the
native Mexicans would begin talking about is the 500-year suppression of
their rights and lives in their own land, right down to the present
day. They wouldn't be talking about immigration to the United States.
The native Mexicans would have very interesting things to say. Their
statements would cut to the bone of Mexican history, the real history.
Not the laid-on Spanish history.
And if justice were the objective, it would begin right there.
It definitely doesn't begin with anything Vicente Fox has to say.
The argument for unlimited immigration, based on history, is spurious
from the get-go. And if you want to go back to the native Aztecs, even
there you're talking about people who took over large territories and
populations by conquest.
Who the Aztecs' native Mexican victims were, at that time, I'll leave
for scholars and historians to sort out. Whoever they were, if you can
find them in Mexico today, they have zero political or economic power.
They're at the bottom, where they've lived for a long, long, long time.
And their need starts with what the leaders in Mexico (not the US) have
been doing to them:
Burying them.
You just might find a few descendants of original Mexicans growing corn
in their native land. That's possible. And if you did, you'd
immediately run into the effects that NAFTA, the 1994 Globalist treaty,
has had on them. It put 1.5 million of them into bankruptcy, because
NAFTA permitted the US to export cheap corn to Mexico. That's why many
of those farmers have been crossing the border and coming up into the
US.
Yes, NAFTA, the treaty that Vicente Fox has called "a miracle," and a "total success."
The man can tap dance. I'll give him that.
Coda: In case you think giant tracts of land in California, with their
sprawling estate villas, were once owned by original Mexicans, from whom
Imperialist Yankees stole those properties in the settlement of the
Mexican-American War, think again. There was a time (19th and early
20th century) when remaining wealthy Mexican families in California were
giving each other islands off the coast, as wedding presents for their
sons and daughters---but these were really Spanish landowners. They
were the descendants of 1519 Hernan Cortes, Juan Diaz, Andres de Tapia,
Garcia del Pilar, Francisco de Aguilar, Pedro Alvarado, and their merry
band of marauders who stole central Mexico, spread their influence, and
kept the native population under their rule, deep under their rule.
I once lived on Alvarado Street in Los Angeles. Only decades later did I
realize this name was no holdover from, or recognition of, Mexico. It
was apparently a reference to Juan Bautista Alvarado, Governor of Alta
California (1836-42). It pointed to "Spanish Mexico." As in: Spain.
Conquest.
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