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| MarkInMexico: "Oaxaca, Mexico- It's on" | |
| 2006-11-26 | |
| This guy blogs from Oaxaca, and his words and photos are amazing - go to the link for the photos.. UPDATED: Please scroll down. It has exploded! If you just flew into Oaxaca, you're not reading this because you're stuck in the airport and you'll be there for a few hours. APPO's march started just a few minutes ago at the Government Palace at Santa MarÃa Coyotepec which effectively closes the airport highway. If you are attempting to enter the city from Mexico City/Puebla, you may or may not be able to do that. In any event, the toll that you pay at the toll booth will go directly into the pockets of APPO. If you are attempting to leave the city for Mexico City/Puebla/Tehuacan, turn around and come back because those highways are blocked. If you had a meeting scheduled today with the "Voice of APPO", Cesar Mateos BenÃtez or Jorge Sosa, Flavio's cousin, it has been canceled. Poof! They were "disappeared" last night by PFP supersecret undercover commandos. Abracadabra. Now you see them, now you don't.
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| Posted by:Frank G |
| #4 Mexico needs an enima. If that means a revolution let it happen. Let Venezuela fund and sponser nasty folks and get themselves trapped in an unpopular war while the gringos sit this one out (okay, perhaps some targetted assassinations of drug lords but beyond that) and guard our border. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2006-11-26 12:37 |
| #3 Hold a plebiscite on this side of the border of Mexicans [legal or otherwise] on whether they would support annexation and autonomy on the lines of Puerto Rico, with the same privileges and rights of citizens of Puerto Rico with American federal oversight of real prosecution of corruption and patronage. Tag on mandatory independence votes very 10 years. We’ll take any surge of refugees as a ‘yes’ vote. When Mexico City expresses its outrage, just point out their sterling work on closing the border. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2006-11-26 10:15 |
| #2 It is extraordinarily bad, not in itself, but because it may be the tinderbox that ignites all of Mexico. There is a good chance that the whole freaking country could explode in a grotesque civil war like the last one they had that lasted years and was completely genocidal. It is ripe for such a disaster. The US will have to deploy at least a Corps of military to keep the refugees out, or we could be inundated with 30 Million people overnight (out of a 107M population), and much of the Mexican and Mexican-American and ethic Mexican population of the US could become radicalized and want to continue the fighting up here. The US may be inclined to intervene militarily as a "peacekeeping" force, and God alone knows how disasterous or not *that* might be. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-11-26 08:38 |
| #1 An this is bad why? It is good is it not? |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-11-26 01:56 |