The new president of Mexico

[vmax]

is a big liberal...surprise..right?
He has made statements that is a basic human right for anyone to “migrate” to the USA and live.

The USA should send American’s who want to move south, into Mexico with military escort, so they can live in Mexico. The government of Mexico won’t likely support them like our government does the Mexicans, so we will have to establish a fort system like settlers did in the American West. There is some good land south of the border, so I think an annexation is in order. After all, it’s our right according to their own logic.

 

[Ole Cowboy]

is a big liberal...surprise..right?
He has made statements that is a basic human right for anyone to “migrate” to the USA and live.

The USA should send American’s who want to move south, into Mexico with military escort, so they can live in Mexico. The government of Mexico won’t likely support them like our government does the Mexicans, so we will have to establish a fort system like settlers did in the American West. There is some good land south of the border, so I think an annexation is in order. After all, it’s our right according to their own logic.

He is extreme far left and my bet is he is OWNED by the Cartel. The cartel mostly runs Mexico now.

 

[vmax]

Is there any Mexican public official that they haven't controlled in the past 20 years ?

 

[oldag]

Mexico has not learned from Venezuela's fiasco.

 

[orbitup]

Mexico has not learned from Venezuela's fiasco.

Yup. Beating a dead horse.

 

[AustinN4]

Mexico has not learned from Venezuela's fiasco.

You are correct in that, but I sure don't want that on our border. I can see armed US military on our border and some tough times ahead for Mexico.

 

[Chirpy]

“And soon, very soon — after the victory of our movement — we will defend all the migrants in the American continent and all the migrants in the world,” Obrador said, adding that immigrants “must leave their towns and find a life in the United States.”

This will get interesting quick...

 

[oldag]

You are correct in that, but I sure don't want that on our border. I can see armed military on our border and some tough times ahead for Mexico.

Absolutely agree. Mexico goes the way of Venezuela and we will see illegal crossings on a more massive scale not seen before.

 

[HKaltwasser]

Alaska is starting to look real good.

 

[FireInTheWire]

Educate me here guys... what happen in Venezuela?

 

[AustinN4]

Educate me here guys... what happen in Venezuela?

Economic implosion

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36319877
How Venezuela's crisis developed and worsened

 

[oldag]

Educate me here guys... what happen in Venezuela?

Seriously?

Elected a socialist in 1998, and next thing you know they had a socialist dictatorship.

People are literally starving. Sneaking into neighboring countries to try and find food, because the government will not allow them to leave. Broke into the zoo to kill animals for meat. No medicine left. Country going broke. Dictatorship enforced by thugs. Government placed strict limits on dollar transactions, so most companies had to close their doors - could not get enough dollars to pay their international suppliers.

Inflation:
2015 111.8%
2016 254.39%
2017* 1,087.53%
2018* 13,864.59%

Took a once up and coming prosperous nation and corkscrewed it straight into the ground.

 

[Moonpie]

Educate me here guys... what happen in Venezuela?

Corrupt Commie dictatorship.
Infrastructure a shambles.
Shortages of everything. Even water. Living in a rain forest and they don’t have water.
It’s the evil Yang-Keys fault.

 

[oldag]

Economic implosion

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36319877
How Venezuela's crisis developed and worsened

Socialist implosion, to be more accurate.

 

[Frank59]

LMAO!! A communist is going to solve all of Mexico's problems!! He ought to work wonders on Mexico's vibrant economy with a liberal agenda!! ( wink wink)!! The drug cartels are the real winners of this election!!

 

[AustinN4]

Socialist implosion, to be more accurate.

Economic implosion due to socialist rule.
The socialists didn't implode, they are still in power.

 

[motorcarman]

But, But socialism CAN work...... It's just that the right people have not been in charge!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think the first failure was the Mayflower Compact!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nearly killed the entire colony.

bob

 

[EZ-E]

I knew they have had problems since Hugo Chavez died but not the whole story.
Here's a link i found that explains a lot of what is going on.
https://thewhitonline.com/2018/04/opinion/heller-civil-war-in-venezuela-is-inevitable/


Venezuela is in ruin. A nation of more than 30 million people, and home to one of the largest oil reserves in the world, is on the brink of total economic collapse and inevitable civil war. Its socialist economy and current oppressive regime has brought this once promising country to its knees and the people of this proud country are fighting for its freedom.

The crisis plaguing Venezuela is largely due to two major factors. The country’s total economic dependence on the global oil markets, and the death of Hugo Chavez.

From 1998 to his death in 2013, Chavez used his charisma and the Venezuelan people’s disdain of the wealthy elites to gain control of the country by establishing a socialist government. Chavez often took advantage of the country’s oil reserves as well as the global oil boom to bribe the population with basic income, universal health care, and opportunities for education.

For a time it seemed to work. Venezuela was seen as one of the few shining examples of a country accepting its economy being totally socialist and succeeding at it. Unfortunately, this prosperity was not to last.

With the death of Chavez in 2013 and global oil prices beginning to gradually decline in 2014, Chavez’s successor Nicolas Maduro inherited a powder keg that was likely to explode even if Chavez was still alive. The problem being is the fact that not only does Maduro lack Chavez’s charisma, he’s inexperienced to the political landscape and no longer has any financial backing due to the economy plummeting.

Seeing no other way to remain in power, Maduro has attempted to rewrite the country’s Constitution in order to gain control of both the courts and the legislature. In essence this process would effectively make Maduro president for life.

However, opposition to Maduro’s wouldbe dictatorship has steadily increased over the past two years due to high unemployment and food shortages running rampant through the country. As a result the country’s murder rate doubled and starvation has nearly affected two thirds of the population.

Protesters have taken to the streets in defiance of Maduro’s regime but all attempts to peacefully oust Maduro have been met with either election fraud, arrest, or brutal suppression by the security forces.

Hundreds have died so far and many military officials have defected from Maduro’s regime and took to hiding in the countryside as a result. Makeshift bombs have been used to kill the security forces and likewise security forces have occasionally killed protesters. Many were acting out of self defense but as a result many of the population have grown to distrust the police as a whole.

So far the protests in Venezuela haven’t reached the same level of hostilities in say Syria or Ukraine, but with protesters and police force attacks escalating, the economy doomed to fail, and a population starving for both food and freedom, Venezuela could spiral into the first full blown civil war the Western Hemisphere has seen in over a century.

 

[oldag]

Economic implosion due to socialist rule.
The socialists didn't implode, they are still in power.

touche

 

[oldag]

I knew they have had problems since Hugo Chavez died but not the whole story.
Here's a link i found that explains a lot of what is going on.
https://thewhitonline.com/2018/04/opinion/heller-civil-war-in-venezuela-is-inevitable/


Venezuela is in ruin. A nation of more than 30 million people, and home to one of the largest oil reserves in the world, is on the brink of total economic collapse and inevitable civil war. Its socialist economy and current oppressive regime has brought this once promising country to its knees and the people of this proud country are fighting for its freedom.

The crisis plaguing Venezuela is largely due to two major factors. The country’s total economic dependence on the global oil markets, and the death of Hugo Chavez.

From 1998 to his death in 2013, Chavez used his charisma and the Venezuelan people’s disdain of the wealthy elites to gain control of the country by establishing a socialist government. Chavez often took advantage of the country’s oil reserves as well as the global oil boom to bribe the population with basic income, universal health care, and opportunities for education.

For a time it seemed to work. Venezuela was seen as one of the few shining examples of a country accepting its economy being totally socialist and succeeding at it. Unfortunately, this prosperity was not to last.

With the death of Chavez in 2013 and global oil prices beginning to gradually decline in 2014, Chavez’s successor Nicolas Maduro inherited a powder keg that was likely to explode even if Chavez was still alive. The problem being is the fact that not only does Maduro lack Chavez’s charisma, he’s inexperienced to the political landscape and no longer has any financial backing due to the economy plummeting.

Seeing no other way to remain in power, Maduro has attempted to rewrite the country’s Constitution in order to gain control of both the courts and the legislature. In essence this process would effectively make Maduro president for life.

However, opposition to Maduro’s wouldbe dictatorship has steadily increased over the past two years due to high unemployment and food shortages running rampant through the country. As a result the country’s murder rate doubled and starvation has nearly affected two thirds of the population.

Protesters have taken to the streets in defiance of Maduro’s regime but all attempts to peacefully oust Maduro have been met with either election fraud, arrest, or brutal suppression by the security forces.

Hundreds have died so far and many military officials have defected from Maduro’s regime and took to hiding in the countryside as a result. Makeshift bombs have been used to kill the security forces and likewise security forces have occasionally killed protesters. Many were acting out of self defense but as a result many of the population have grown to distrust the police as a whole.

So far the protests in Venezuela haven’t reached the same level of hostilities in say Syria or Ukraine, but with protesters and police force attacks escalating, the economy doomed to fail, and a population starving for both food and freedom, Venezuela could spiral into the first full blown civil war the Western Hemisphere has seen in over a century.

Make no mistake, the problems started under Chavez. He laid the groundwork, it just took a while for the thing to rot.