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By Anthony Bourdain (Wikipedia)

Americans love Mexican food. We consume nachos, tacos, burritos, tortas, enchiladas, tamales and anything resembling Mexican in enormous quantities. We love Mexican beverages, happily knocking back huge amounts of tequila, mezcal and Mexican beer every year. We love Mexican people—as we sure employ a lot of them. 

Despite our ridiculously hypocritical attitudes towards immigration, we demand that 

Mexicans cook a large percentage of the food we eat, grow the ingredients we need to make that food, clean our houses, mow our lawns, wash our dishes, look after our children. 

As any chef will tell you, our entire service economy—the restaurant business as we know it—in most American cities, would collapse overnight without Mexican workers. Some, of course, like to claim that Mexicans are “stealing American jobs”. But in two decades as a chef and employer, I never had ONE American kid walk in my door and apply for a dishwashing job, a porter’s position—or even a job as prep cook. Mexicans do much of the work in this country that Americans, probably, simply won’t do. 

We love Mexican drugs. Maybe not you personally, but “we”, as a nation, certainly consume titanic amounts of them—and go to extraordinary lengths and expense to acquire them. We love Mexican music, Mexican beaches, Mexican architecture, interior design, Mexican films.

So, why don’t we love Mexico? More, HERE.

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WASHINGTON POST - With Fewer Undocumented Workers to Hire, U. S. Farmers are Fueling a Surge in the Number of Legal Guest Workers

By Kevin Sieff and Annie Gowen

DURANGO, Mexico — For decades, U.S. farmers, landscapers and builders tapped a seemingly endless supply of cheap labor: the waves of undocumented immigrants coming across the southern border. The workers arrived in time for harvests and construction booms. They did the low-wage manual labor that Americans were unwilling to do.

By the 2000s, more than half of American farmworkers were undocumented, according to the Labor Department. But now — thanks to border enforcement, the surging cost of smugglers and changes in migration patterns — the number of people crossing into the United States illegally is nearing the lowest level in decades. There are more Mexicans leaving the United States than arriving there.

For the White House, that might be a triumph. But for the 

agriculture industry, the impact is acute. Each year, its labor force dwindles. More, HERE.

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CNN - Trump's Mood Takes a Foul Turn: 'He's Pissed -- at Damn Near Everyone

November 14, 2018

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CNN - France Accuses Trump of Lacking 

 'Common Decency' for Tweets on Anniversary of Paris Attacks

By Saskya Vandoome and Mathew Robinson; November 14, 2018 

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CNN - Melanie Trump Leads 

New Round of White House Firing and Fury

Analysis by Stephen Collinson; November 14, 2018 

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MEXICO NEWS DAILY - Central American Migrants are Now Traveling in at Least 12 States.

 

A First Contingent has Already Arrived in Tijuana, where Authorities are Seeking Aid for Shelters

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MEXICO NEWS DAILY - El Chapo's Lawyer Claims Cartel Bribed Presidents Peña Nieto, Calderón.

 

Both Have Rejected the Accusation, which Claims that the Sinaloa Cartel Paid them Millions of Dollars

 

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EFE, English Edition - Mexico's Lopez Obrador Turns 65

THE GUARDIAN - Mexico's President-Elect AMLO's Party Moves Toward Marijuana Legalization

 

Party has Submitted Legislation to Legalize the Possession, Public Use, Growth and Sale of Marijuana

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GLOBAL RESEARCH - Mexico: The Legalization of Opium for Medicinal Use?

 

By Andrew Korybko

There would be far-reaching implications for the US if the incoming Mexican government goes through with the current Defense Minister’s suggestion to legalize opium for medicinal use.

This so-called “solution” has long been discussed and is seen by some as a pragmatic approach for lessening the heavy carnage caused by the country’s drug war over the past decade, which has killed more than 200,000 people since it first began in 2006. The concept is simple enough and it’s that the country’s opium farmers, which have made Mexico the world’s third-largest supplier of this drug, would sell their harvests to government-approved entities for use in scientific studies and medicine instead of giving them to the cartels, though this would require that the state provide adequate protection to both the farmers and their crops. This is a lot easier said than done because the security services are thought to be deeply infiltrated by the cartels, and many citizens live in fear of what would happen if these forces found out that they were cooperating with the government.

More, HERE.

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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Mexico to Cancel $ 13.3 Billion Mexico City Airport Project By Anthony Harrup

 

Mexico's President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador Casts His Vote in Mexico City on Thursday. PHOTO: EDUARDO VERDUGO/ASSOCIATED PRESS

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BBC: Mexico President-Elect Halts Partly Built Airport

 

Foundations for Mexico City's AIrport at Texcoco have already been built

Mr López Obrador, who takes office in December, said money would be used instead to improve existing facilities.

He has been a strong critic of the project which he says is bad for the environment and tainted by corruption.

The referendum was one of Mr. López Obrador's campaign promises.

About one million people took part in the vote over four days, about 1% of the electorate, and critics have alleged cases of people casting multiple ballots.

The estimated cost of the new airport at Texcoco, north-east of the capital, has been put at more than $13bn (£10bn).

More, HERE.

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THE GUARDIAN: Five Things you Need to Know about Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador or "Amlo"

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MEXICO NEWS DAILY: Airport Vote 'Opaque and Illegal', 'Useless Consultation', Business Leaders Charge

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THE GUARDIAN: Trump Accused of Stocking Immigration Fears by Sending 5,200 Troops to Border

A migrant girl, traveling with a caravan of thousands from Central America en route to the United States, hitchhikes on a truck in Tapanatepec, Mexico. Photograph: Hannah McKay/Reuters

By David Smith in Washington and David Agren in Mexico City

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CNN - Here's what we Know so far About Robert Bowers, the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Suspect

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GLOBAL RESEARCH: High Crimes and Misdemeanors of Kavanaugh and the Senate- Trump Faction. Step-by-step Overthrow of the Rule of Law

 

By Prof. John McMurtryand Prof. Matthew Stanton October 5, 2018

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MEXICO NEWS DAILY: Serial Killers of Ecatepec Confess to Eating The Remains of their Victims

'If I get out of Jail I'm going to Keep Killing More Women': Juan Carlos, October 10, 2018

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THE NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE - The Dawn of Mexico's Dirty War

By Kate Doyle 

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BBC: Mexico students v the state: Anniversary of 1968 massacre reopens recent wounds

GLOBAL RESEARCH: What Happened on the Planes on September 11, 2001? The 9/11 Cell Phone Calls. The 9/11 Commission "Script" was Fabricated.

By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky; September 4, 2018

“We Have Some Planes”

The 9/11 Commission’s Report provides an almost visual description of the Arab hijackers. It depicts in minute detail events occurring inside the cabin of the four hijacked planes.

In the absence of surviving passengers, this “corroborating evidence”, was based on passengers’ cell and air phone conversations with their loved ones. According to the Report, the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) was only recovered in the case of one of the flights (UAL 93).

Focusing on the personal drama of the passengers, the Commission has built much of its narrative around the phone conversations. The Arabs are portrayed with their knives and box cutters, scheming in the name of Allah, to bring down the planes and turn them “into large guided missiles” (Report, Chapter 1).

The Technology of Wireless Transmission

The Report conveys the impression that cell phone ground-to-air communication from high altitude was of reasonably good quality, and that there was no major impediment or obstruction in wireless transmission.

Some of the conversations were with onboard air phones, which contrary to the cell phones provide for good quality transmission. The report does not draw a clear demarcation between the two types of calls. 

More, HERE.

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GLOBAL RESEARCH: 9/11 Attacks: Thousands of 9/11 First Responders Have Cancer. 

By Derrick Broze; September 5, 2018

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GLOBAL RESEARCH: Who is Pope Francis? Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Argentina's "Dirty War"

 

By  Prof. Michel Chossudovsky; August 29, 2018 

Who was Pope Francis before he became Pope? And why was he chosen to become Pope? Jorge María Bergoglio, appointed "Provincial" of the Order of Jesus in Argentina was one of the main supporters -within the Catholic Church hierarchy - of Argentina's military dictatorship which came to powe in March 1976.

More, HERE.

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GLOBAL RESEARCH: Abominable New US/Mexico Trade Deal

 

By Stephen Lendman; August 28, 2018

 

So-called free trade isn’t fair. It’s a license for corporate predators to plunder, exploit, pollute, and operate unrestrained – solely for maximum profit-making.

Generation-ago NAFTA promises, touted by the Clinton co-presidency, were Big Lies – well known at the time. Yet the deal was consummated anyway.

US trade deals and related bipartisan policies exclusively serve corporate interests at the expense of ecosanity and worker pay, benefits and other rights – millions of manufacturing and other jobs lost since the 1990s.

On Monday, Trump touted the new US/Mexico trade deal, talks with Canada to join it continuing.

In a White House statement, DJT lied calling what the US and Mexico agreed on “a big day for trade, a big day for our country…a tremendous thing…a really good deal for both countries.”

The new “United States-Mexico Trade Agreement” is just the opposite.

All US trade deals are secretly negotiated behind closed doors, corporate interests having final say over what’s agreed on, assuring they’re granted new powers and privileges.

They make it easier for them to offshore jobs, ignore ecosanity, trash worker rights, and abandon policies vital for human health and well-being.

NAFTA’s investor protections incentivize offshoring production and jobs. Since taking effect on January 1, 1994, around a million US jobs were lost from this deal alone.

Wages were lowered, benefits lost, and inequality increased at the expense of fast eroding social justice.

So-called Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) facilitates offshoring of jobs to low-wage countries.

More, HERE.

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CNN: John McCain, Senator and Former Presidential Candidate, Dies at 81

Global Research: 

The CIA has Attempted to Assassinate 50 Foreign Leaders Including Chavez 

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The CIA's Plan to Assassinate Kim Jong-un, History of CIA Sponsored Assassinations 

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Maduro Assassination Attempt in Caracas. Bolton Denial: "There was no US Government Involvement"

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Colombia's Uribe to US Business Leaders: Help Take Out Maduro 

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10 of the Most Lethal CIA Interventions in Latin America

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Why a Former CIA Director Shouldn't Run the State Department: Human Rights Watch, Huffington Post

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School of the Americas: Training Torturers & Secret Police for US-Backed Dictators Since 1946,

by Kit O'Connell, Global Research

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The Guardian: Suspected Russian Spy Found Working at US Embassy in Moscow 

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The Guardian: Trump's Attacks on Media Raise Threat of Violence Against Reporters, UN Experts Warn 

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Mexico: Violence, Corruption and Inequality - AMLO to the Rescue?

By Michael Roberts, Global Research

 

The victory in Mexico’s presidential election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), under the rubric of his relatively new ‘progressive’ Morena party, is both unsurprising and surprising.  It’s unsurprising because AMLO had a huge and increasing lead in the opinion polls leading up to polling day.  And Mexico’s 88m voters (out of 127m people) have now given him the biggest win in post-war election history, with over 53% of the vote.  The candidates of the establishment parties were way behind.  For the first time, the parties of the elite and the status quo were split over who should be their standard bearer.  And the sheer anger and frustration at the state of Mexico’s economy and daily life for average citizens has swept AMLO into office.

But the result is also surprising because the ruling classes’ immense power to ‘fix’ the election (as they have done in the previous ones), or to find a way to stop AMLO politically has failed.  Of course, the Mexican courts may attempt to overturn the result on alleged ‘irregularities’ but such is the size of AMLO’s victory, that such a trick will probably not succeed. AMLO’s party Morena has also gained a majority in the Mexican Congress and has won at least five of nine gubernatorial races, with the winners including Mexico City’s first elected female mayor, Claudia Sheinbaum.  But Morena is in alliance with a small extreme Christian fundamentalist party which may moderate what the new administration will do, particularly in social and ‘family’ matters.

More HERE

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Manuel Bartlett Díaz...

In a 3-part article series, investigative journalist Charles Bowden offers eyewitness accounts of Bartlett's involvement (along with other senior Mexican political, law enforcement, security and military officials) in the decision to order the kidnap, torture and murder of American DEA officer Enrique S. "Kiki" Camarena in 1985 in order to shut down his successful campaign against the Guadalajara Cartel. 

In these accounts, cartel figures repeatedly mention they expect Bartlett Díaz to one day become President of Mexico, with the implication that they will prosper as a result.^[2] Earlier accounts claimed that DEA suspicions about Bartlett Díaz's involvement in the murder led to the ruling PRI party's refusal to consider him as a presidential candidate, leading to the selection ofCarlos Salinas de Gortari in Díaz's place.

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Blood on the Corn

THE TORTURE BEGINS...

Twice Raul sees a different American agent at Fonseca’s home, the guy who comes for money and packs it in a garment bag. He says he’s there when Max Gomez and Bartlett Díaz come by for the money packed in cardboard boxes and Caro Quintero says, “Here’s your money, now let’s get to work.”

And he’s there at the house on Lope de Vega Street on February 7, 1985, the morning of Camarena’s capture. About 40 people have gathered including Caro Quintero and Félix Gallardo and their bodyguards. DFS personnel and state police also attend. At 12:30 p.m. a man shows up who is known to work at the American consulate and immediately the group focuses on the actual kidnapping of the DEA agent. The consulate figure tells Fonseca’s key henchman that everything is set according to the schedule “I gave you earlier.”

More HERE

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Bowden: How the CIA may have tortured one of America's own

 THE CULTURE OF SAFE TRAVEL, CRIME AND LOSS PREVENTION IN MEXICO

 

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Mr. Mario González-Román Presides Security Corner in Mexico (SCM), aka the Culture of Safe Travel, Crime and Loss Prevention. His last position in the Embassy of the United States of America in Mexico was Head of Security (FSN), under the supervision of the Agent in Charge, Diplomatic Security Service, US Department of State. DSS by Wikipedia. Such a position was cleared through the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, through the Diario Oficial de la Federación. Later on he served as the United Nations Security Coordinator for the Mexico Region with offices in Mexico City and his operations' base in Guatemala, Gua., CA. Such organization (UNSECOORD) was responsible for security in its programs in Cuba, Caribbean, Antilles & Central America. Mr. González-Román was tasked with responsibility over the Mexico Region. 

His resume, in images, in page Presidential Gallery 

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