by Jon Rappoport
May 16, 2016
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Vicente Fox (twitter) 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.yourdictionary.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.blogspot.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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The people who want unlimited immigration from Mexico to the US should keep that in mind. Arguing from history brings up some unpleasant truths.
According to ancestry.com, the most common surnames (2013) are Garcia, Fernandez, Gonzales, Rodriguez, Lopez, Martinez, Sanchez, Perez, Martin, Gomez—these are the most common names in…
Spain.
That tells you something about who has really been running Mexico since the early 16th century.
It isn’t the native Mexicans.
Jon Rappoport
The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.
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Couldn’t you say the same about the US government? What’s the basis for US government’s legitimacy? US history is full of land grabbing.
I agree. The point is moot to some extent. Or, what else is new in the history of “mankind” lol.
Watchin KMEX C34. Even the celebs are spanish except for the aztecas bad guys n gardeners n maids in their soaps. Sort of reminds me of israel n palestine. Why is it that no white mexican spaniards sneak over the border? It must mean that white euro descent spaniards don’t want to do the work that white american boyz won’t either. Hard shitty labor is reserved for a dark shade of brown. It also occurs to me that those lazy ass mexicans in mexico are white spaniards. The siesta was a Spanish import practiced by the aristocracy and not an indigenous mexican indian trait … as in the Apache tribes. It now makes sense why mex law made it required to educate the indigenous kids thru 6th grade at first. Currently it’s the 8th grade. We did same with the indians. Keep em stupid n call em lazy n drunks. Now enter the catholic church into aztec society n induce guilt. The foreign rulers are now safe. I think to solve this is easy … bilingual educated mexican aztecas from the US return to ancestral home and replace all the white spaniards (deport em) at every gov level …by brown bag test n features. I watch KMEX to work on my spanish … notice the language is spanish not mexish. You could transpose a mexican white with a euro spaniard and wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.
You gave me the idea when you asked me about what’s wrong with germans. They would sacrifice their young on the altar of political correctness to prove how modern n peaceful they’ve become. It’s embarrassing coming from the warrior prussian tribe I might add. Again the catholic church was influential in the old birth place.
Now go to israel n compare an arab muslim to a zio jew. Skin n features again. This is why the zionists hate talk of kazarian roots and conversion to judaism. Common sense … Abram was father of jews n arabs. They’re step brothers. Sarah and her slave were mothers to the current descendants. No way in hell do the zio rulers share any physical traits with the gazans. Posted over two months ago..
This article strongly reminded me of several scenarios that, over the years, have trickled down from high places:
http://emerald.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/fall2013/features/up-in-arms.html
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I want to present two distinct models of conquest and occupation that empires employ when expanding their territories.
The first model looks like this. Kill all the men young and old, save some boys. Order your soldiers to mate with the native women. Lower caste Spanish men (soldiers) mate with the women of Mesoamerica. Whence, Mex(mix)icans, if you will.
Then second model looks like this. Genocide, kill them all, or as many as possible before the world wakes up to it. Occupy the conquered territories with a flood of immigrants from ruled Northern European nations.
When eminent domain demands expansion, enjoin the Marines and gunboat diplomacy to the halls of Montezuma and cut a deal(The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848) that the Mexicans can’t refuse.
I do not present this view of the information to make any moral argument, not my job.
One last thing I would recommend consideration. I’ll just pose the question and allow all to form their own answers.
Why do you think that instead of absorbing the beauty of central Mexico and all that magnificent east west coast line into the United States, we opted to create a border??
Think about it.
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There is a reason that Cortez and but 500 Spaniards were able to conquer the mighty Aztecs. Yes they were the largest tribal empire in Mexico at the time but most of the population of their empire were non-Aztecs show were quite simply tired of Sri g their own people carried off I to slavery at best and the alters of human sacrifice at worst. Eager to find ANY alternative to the murderous Aztecs they quickly allied with the Conquistadors to over throw them. Since that day social status in Mexico is determined by the amount of Spanish and particularly Castilian blood flows in your veins.
[…] I’m so sick and tired of the usual B.S. that is written on this subject. [This article] bring[s] some clarity to the subject. […]
the Mexican/Spanish rulers of mexico even to this day have always had a sore spot on their tongues when it came to the treaty of guadalupe hidalgo circa 1848…that evil vial treaty that gave us eventually California, Arizona new mexico and texas. mexico signed it, paid up their reparations, and off everyone went…or so the story goes. mexico has never gotten over it. never. mexico, a sore loser since 1848…I guess it’s true what the t-shirt says; “hecho en mexico”. and now we have that pathetic p.o.s. vicente fox raising his ugly head-again. he’s a fair-weather friend if ever there was one. our borders have been and probably will always be porous until WE get serious about them. but the sleeping giant, sleeps, except to snort, momentarily awaken, roll over, and go right back to sleep again. and we have only ourselves to blame for the mess that we are in.
W paid 15 million in gold they paid us no reparation
Lets face it. This whole “issue” is based on Stupidity. Vicento Fox News don’t wanna tell those brown Mestizos that they are not La Raza. La Raza is what you call a “Narrative”. Much like the media here in America, the erstwhile “government” of Mexico has a story or “Narrative” that allows the descendants of the Spanish Conquistadores to keep ruling the peon slaves of Mejico.
According to the Spaniards like Vicento, he and his familia are not Robber Barons or Conquistadores any more, because Mexico is one big happy race family now called La Raza. These dumb brown Mestizos believe they are a Race or “The Race” or La Raza. Actually they are the indirect result of hot blooded Spaniards leaving their wives and girlfriends back home and shacking up with some native Aztec poon tang. However, if this got out, ole Vicento and the Spaniards would be rightly seen as Invaders instead of a lighter skinned ruling class by the dumb brown Mestizo slaves.
You see the story goes like this. Mexicans are a Race unto themselves, where lighter skinned Spanish rule over their cousins the brown skinned Aztlan. Aztlan are different from Aztecs who are hated and discriminated against because these dumb brown Mestizos don’t want to admit they are more close to them then the Spaniards. I guess if you’re a dirt poor peon slave, it might make you less hostile to your Spanish overlords if you see yourself as them instead of those stupid Aztecs that were conquered. Sure you do all the work and the Spanish get all the money, but its OK because they are part of your family and not Alien Overlords.
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Your take on the Mexican political establishment is not really correct, Mr. Rappaport. Vicente Fox was, in fact, an outsider when he assumed the presidency and did so at the behest of a pissed off international banker clique who had been eager to depose the long entrenched PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institucional) – the single political entity that had held power for more than 70 consecutive years – after the unforgivable nationalization of the banks by president Lopez Portillo in the 80’s. Though by no means made up of the humblest citizens of the country, the PRI was and is mostly composed by “real” Mexicans in terms of heritage; after all, its ranks were filled by the victorious armies (soldiers) of the revolution. The spaniard/european element of Mexican society was mostly relegated to the private sector (like Fox’s Coca Cola executive background) and kept out of government. The real money was the oil, nationalized in the 30’s and controlled ever since by the PRI – the real mafia. Fox does, however, represent the beginning of the end of that political party, which signed its death warrant decades before and it was his presidency that marked the beginning of the vacuum of power that has ultimately resulted in Mexico devolving into a narco state. A vacuum further exacerbated by Fox’s old pal H.W. Bush and NAFTA. Today, Fox is a non-actor in Mexico. His presidency was as fleeting as a carbonated drink. He garners more press here in the U.S. than south of the border and I’m afraid he is once again being used as a puppet by interests unaligned to our southern neighbors.
I encourage everyone to read the Mexican federal constitution. You can find an English translation in a pdf. You will discover that foreigners in Mexico have no rights. There are no jobs, unemployment benefits, right to vote, land ownership and definitely no “anchor babies”. One could argue that the Mexican Constitution provided the first communist revolution even before the Russians. You will discover also that foreigners must live in Mexico for 20 years before their offspring would be considered naturalized citizens. I’m not sure what this might mean for the legitimacy of the Fox dynas? Please look at the relationship between Fox and the Former NM governor Richardson…