So should central and south America as well when the Spaniards took the rest of those countries and wiped out many of the indigenous Indians over time.
Before I jump into this, I want to say that I was living in rural south Texas (Carrizo Springs) in the 70s/80s as a child. I remember one illegal coming through our property from the ranch bordering our south fence line. I remember the haggard expression on his face (it was summertime, getting late in the morning) when I happened upon him. I went to my stepmom, who came out and first spoke in English, and then he said something. She started speaking in español. It turns out that he was hungry, thirsty, and was looking for Cotulla, which was directly to the east on the other side of I-35, where a lot of illegals were picked up for work or moving north in those days. The man was white, blue-eyed, mostly dirty-blond-colored hair, most of his front teeth missing... I never forgot that look on his face, wondering how he got into that situation.
Mexican is a nationality.
Hispanic is an ethnicity.
Indian is a race.
It becomes important to understand these dinstinctions.
I was about to say something to the effect here. Prior to your post, kokonut, there has been NO statement about its 500-year history of bloodshed and oppression here.
This is how I see it. The Europeans/Spaniards invaded the Americas and took the lands from the Indians. I believe one reason we do not have the migration from our country to another like México does is because we allow all to have the opportunities at life (though there are inherent inequities, such as politics and money that allow one to start at a higher position as a child than another person would). The Europeans/Spaniards do not for the most part. They have tried to "purify" México into a New World extension of the Spanish world of Europe by making life so difficult for the Indians still alive today such that the Indians become our problem by way of migration out of the country.
Have you noticed on spanish television stations like Univisíon the race of the people and the roles they play on TV as well as how they are positioned in society? You'll see most if not all of the white/white-looking mestizo actors and actresses in positions of power, responsibility, money, while most laborer, country/pastoral, poor character roles are often filled by Indians or dark-skinned mestizos. I don't think there are nearly as many exceptions to that rule as you would see in developed industrial nations like the US.
Perhaps the Indians are but a pawn in the greater game of cultural/religious conquest that is still being played out 500 years later. Maybe the illegal immigration is but a symptom of a much greater problem - oppression of the Indians. I predict that if the carteles are confident enough, they may attempt to instigate civil war against the European/Spaniard/white-looking politicians running México within 1-2 years. Until two weeks ago, I thought they might try within 2-4 years. Recent activity indicates they're stepping it up rapidly, and the government may not be able to counter it quickly enough to keep from losing the country. They're stealing houses in some of the border towns! There has been no word that police forces have gone back inside and reclaimed the houses for the homeowners...
There will be revolution, and the Mexican Revolution that started in 1910 between fighting factions of EUROPEANS will be nothing compared to the upcoming Mexican Revolution, especially when the Indians feel payback is long overdue, and one of theirs is a BILLIONAIRE on the Forbe's List - Joaquin Guzman Loera;
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Guzmán, one of four brothers, was born in a Sinaloa mountain hamlet known as La Tuna, which sits in Badiraguato county, the birthplace of most of Mexico’s famous drug lords. The reason for Badiraguato’s notoriety is its location at the gateway to Mexico’s “golden triangle,” a remote, mountainous intersection of Sinaloa, Durango and Chihuahua states where opium and marijuana have been grown for generations.
Badiraguato, one of Mexico’s 200 poorest counties, offers its young few jobs other than the drug trade. As a child, El Chapo’s family was so poor that when he was a baby, his mother converted an old wooden crate used to pack tomatoes into a cradle for him, says a local official who has seen the photograph.
The mountain folk of Badiraguato are widely seen as macho, close-mouthed people of tight-knit clans, given to intense loyalty, bloody vendettas and honor killings. Many of the fathers and grandfathers of today’s capos are buried by the side of Badiraguato’s dusty roads or on hillsides with views of the crumbling adobe homes where they were born. They lie in grand marble mausoleums built like mock colonial cathedrals or Greek temples.
Many of the new generation of capos, including El Chapo’s son Édgar, are buried in spectacular graves in nearby Culiacan. Judging by photographs or paintings of the dead displayed on the tombs, Badiraguato’s native narcos often die young. “Better to live like a rey [king] for six years than as a guey [ox, or fool] for 60,” is a common saying here.
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Remember that quote... That could become the slogan of the coming Revolution. Him and several other drug lords have enough money between them to finance the bloodiest, most successful takeover of a country via revolution if they remain low-key in their money/strategic/weaponry acquisition plans. Once they've taken over México, will they stop there, or begin mounting attacks on other countries to the south? I don't think they'll hit the US next, because the US is the best place for making money as laborers and selling drugs, and they want that money to finance the Indian Revolution before having the whole of Indian America turning against the US in the final push via sheer numbers to cleanse the Americas of the white influence. You may not see the southward push for several years as they continue to operate under the table in other countries for a while longer. They already have been successful in Venezuela and Bolivia through elections rather than the gun (though Hugo Chávez tried in a 1992 military-civilian coup). There is Nicaragua to consider as well.
Mind you, I'm pretty white-looking, but I have to consider things that I see and read on a daily basis, online or around me right here in Texas. NOT looking forward to it, but what can you do?
