Mexico sure needs some good PR here in the US; all I ever hear are bad things on TV and in the papers?
Uncle Frank
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Ha,ha,ha... so many tasty opinions to comment... but I will comment this one for insighfulness, uncle
Without wanting to be rude, that Mexico be looked bad in the US in certain circles and media, actually means very little, if you know how to separate the real facts and the real trends and look at them from the correct political view.
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In other worlds, if we wanted to be the "big amigos", as some understand it, as actually the treacherous government we currently have, actually want, we simply have to sell cheap our own natural resources... privatize oil, and relax more our laws (even more), and destroy our left-leaning Costitution from 1917, and things like that.
What some evil and perverted people in the USA and Mexico want, is that we become "Colombia II", has some other poster here already said.
O.K... let's see if these perverts get away with it... but in the meanwhile, let me explain with more detail the meaning of my first paragraph.
The real reason why there has been relatively good relationship between Mexico and the USA since the 1920s, and specially since 1942, have been the capacity of Mexico to defend itself from unwanted intrussion from the USA and other countries. Remember that Mexico was practically the only Latin American country were there was not CIA sposored coups d'etat, the only country in Latinamerica with friendly relationship with Cuba... but also the country that accepted and respected more USA investment after WWII.
Sorry but it is the truth.
As our nationalism, both in practice and spiritually, began to suffer in the last, say, 20 years, everything has been downhill.
That conservative US diplomacy and media, and the "neocons", and the "Monroists" of allways (who knows what name have now) speak bad of Mexico, means nothing... on the contrary... that will be a good sign that we are doing "something" good... Currently I am pessimistic... since are precisely the US "Big Bussiness", corporate and financial interest, the ones that currently try to put Mexico "in a good light"... but actually what we see is social decomposition.
Really, the 2006 elections were a great oportunity, lost. I will not see any oportunity for an improvement with the current gang in government. Actually, they are a "collage" of the leftovers of the worst parties that supposedly were defeated in many struggles of the Mexican people, during 2 centuries.
So, let's see what follows.