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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 41
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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UNITED STATES: OUR WORST ENEMY
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By Fernando Benitez
(La Jornada, 10/6/96)
[Translation by Conspiracy Nation]
Our greatest misfortune -- and we have had many -- consists in
being neighbors of the United States. The Monroe Doctrine
ordained that America was to be for the Americans and Europe for
the Europeans. Neither could interfere in the other's continent;
the United States was to counsel and assist, in a fraternal
manner, the former Spanish colonies. That generous guideline
soon was relegated to forgotten memory, with the appropriation
first of Texas and then later of half of our territory. Since
then we have suffered aggressions, and even today the fishing of
tuna and the export to the United States of iron, steel, cement,
and even the avocadoes and Mexican tomatoes (gift of Mexico to
the world) is prohibited -- all of that which competes with their
own products.
If the Mexicans are racists, the Americans are moreso. They hate
the blacks and the Hispanic immigrants. They have fenced off the
frontier; at times they beat the illegal immigrants and deport
them, in spite of the fact that the immigrants perform labor that
the yankees disdain -- and that labor contributes to the growth
of their economy.
By now we are not friends of the United States, but its enemies.
If they have lent us money it is with the intention of charging
tremendous interest.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez has written *Historia de un secuestro*
[History of a Kidnapping], a terrifying book, and I ask myself:
Why do the Columbians suffer? They suffer because more than 20
million Americans are drug addicts. And Mexico itself seems to
be approaching a similar situation to that of Columbia.
President Clinton has promised to militarize the Mexicans in
order to combat the drug mafias. This is ironic since the United
States cannot (or doesn't wish to) bring down its own mafias --
How are they going to teach us to do it? In Mexico, important
mafia chiefs have been apprehended, while in the United States
not one has fallen.
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