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2007-12-18 Caribbean-Latin America

War looming in Chiapas: Mexico rebel leader

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Posted by Fred 2007-12-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Zapatista rebel leader Marcos warned of possible coming war in Mexico's impoverished southern state of Chiapas

What the 'leader' was saying is that Mexico City has failed to move enough of us fast enough to Phoenix, Chicago, LA, Denver, etc [you get the picture].

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-12-18 08:23|| 2007-12-18 08:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Chiapas is a tragedy, and I fear there is no way around it. It has some of the most fertile farmland in Mexico, farmland that Mexico needs to feed its people, but it is being farmed with Mayan-era technology.

The Indians who lived there suffer the rare and terrible fate of being obsolete in the modern world. Machines are alien to their way of thinking and just do not compute to them. Trying to teach them about machines does not work.

Literally, to survive as a people, small children would have to be taken away from their parents to be educated. What their parents could teach them is no enough to survive in the world today, and the culture of their parents is damned to destruction.

But this has not happened. So inevitably, one way or another, the land will be taken away from them, and they will either be dispersed or die.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-12-18 08:53|| 2007-12-18 08:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Mexico needs an Enema. Marcos is a Marxis tool but he has some real legit issues and a bit of social unrest might be what the Mexican Oligarchs need to start making the necessary changes.

Perhaps the US should arm Marcos & company and provide air support if Mexico doesn't seal the border and start acting like an ally again rather than trying to have it both ways.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-12-18 13:06|| 2007-12-18 13:06|| Front Page Top

#4 TOPIX > MEXICAN BORDER WAR ESCALATING. Mexi troops meeting armed/militant local Mexi resistance at US-Mexi border; + STRATEGYPAGE > SHAPING THE BATTLEFIED. US-Mexi effort versus [Gulf]Cartels in anti-Cartel/Drug War.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-12-18 21:18|| 2007-12-18 21:18|| Front Page Top

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