Tag Archives: Mexico

Assaulting the statue

Posted on October 14, 2007 | Comments Off on Assaulting the statue

The only thing sillier than pulling down a statue of El Presidente is putting one up in the first place.

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Murder and mayhem

Posted on July 7, 2007 | Comments Off on Murder and mayhem

Iraq? No, Mexico’s narco wars. Can we close the border? Now?

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The real answer to illegal immigration

Posted on June 20, 2007 | Comments Off on The real answer to illegal immigration

Why, it’s nation-building, of course. In Mexico, where most of them come from. Going to the source.

Insight by WuzzaDem 

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Down Mexico way

Posted on May 24, 2007 | Comments Off on Down Mexico way

And you wonder why we have so many immigrants from Mexico? Volkwagen AG is doing peachy, but its workers in Mexico aren’t getting their government-mandated share, according to Mark in Mexico:

"This profit sharing requirement, along with the various and onerous tax schemes promoted by the government, the crumbling or never-existed-in-the-first-place infrastructure, third rate educational system, law of the mordida and all the way down to business executives and/or family members being picked off the streets in kidnapping operations, contribute to the sad fact that hardly any Mexican businesses make a profit even when they do make a profit, if you catch my drift."

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Illegals and the price of tortillas

Posted on January 17, 2007 | Comments Off on Illegals and the price of tortillas

Don’t look now, but the pressure of illegal immigration from Mexico could be about to grow, and all because of the rising price of tortillas. But it’s complicated and Mark in Mexico explains why:

"To get the prices for tortillas down, Calderón must allow the importation of more corn. In fact, he has to encourage it. The state of Iowa alone is capable of burying Mexico in a mountain of cheap and quite affordable corn meal [subsidized by U.S. government largess to argibusiness] …When that cheap corn meal hits Mexico, the country’s own producers, in most cases the small, already dirt poor farmers, will be out of business…If Mexicans want to enjoy lower tortilla prices, they’ll have to buy corn meal from Iowa…[which Mexican politicos hate to do]…For millions of Mexico’s poor, the tortilla is about all they’ve got and all they’ve ever had. And now they cannot afford even that."

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Hot time in Old Mexico

Posted on December 27, 2006 | Comments Off on Hot time in Old Mexico

They’re having a crime wave. They’re having a crime wave. Or something. Not the greatest place for a holiday vacation, unless you go armed. But that, unless it’s a .22, would be illegal. Mark in Mexico has the details:

"AK-47’s, AR-15’s, .45, .38 spl and .357 magnum weapons were utilized to gun down 17 people across the country on Christmas Eve, most in Sinaloa and Michoacan. There were also two fragmentation grenades tossed into a bar in Acapulco, only one of which exploded, leaving 11 wounded. One of the wounded, a 30 year old woman, is hospitalized in critical condition."

The drug and kidnaping gangs down there make al Q look like amateurs. 

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Rain breeder

Posted on October 23, 2006 | Comments Off on Rain breeder

Hurricane Paul, off the west coast of Mexico, is expected to be no more than a tropical depression by the time it clears the Mexican mountains on Thursday morning. Meanwhile, it is sending an express train of moisture into Texas, increasing our chances for light to heavy rain tomorrow through Wednesday. As usual, we can use it, being a bit ahead of normal in the city but well behind at the airport.

UPDATE  From National Weather Service in New Braunfels: YEARLY RAINFALL FOR 2006 WAS AS FOLLOWS…SAN ANTONIO 17.38 INCHES…9.9 INCHES BELOW NORMAL…AUSTIN BERGSTROM 20.99 INCHES…7.03 INCHES BELOW NORMAL…AUSTIN MABRY 28.15 INCHES…0.73 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL…AND DEL RIO 9.15 INCHES…7.44 INCHES BELOW NORMAL.

Then Paul weakened to a tropical storm before going ashore but, drawing on Gulf moisture, the rain forcast is still on through Wednesday night.  

 

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