recover.

You know, from up here in Canada, it has always astonished me that Americans, who stole most of Mexico in the 19th c., would freak out over Mexican folks - those of first nations and conquistador blood, migrating north for work to WHAT WAS THEIR LAND. One of the reasons why Americans refuse to learn any history, is that they'd have to look their multiple sins in the eye. Ye gods, what a people.

TY again for linking us to the long memory. Have a great day, my friend.

in Hereford, AZ.

Hereford grew up around the cattle ranch of one capitalist named William Cornell Greene. He imported Hereford cattle from England, to improve the local breed. He became involved in cattle ranching across the border, a few miles away, and eventually with copper mining, in Cananea, a few miles farther. With much encouragement and protection from Diaz, his enterprises thrived.

In the US, we tend to say the Mexican Revolution began in 1914, but in Mexico, the beginning was in 1910, with a miner's strike in Cananea. Greene called in help, which arrived in the form of the Arizona Rangers, to put down the strike. In Mexico.

At times it is tough to read, especially the part about Yucatan. I gathered the author wanted US intervention, but in support of the revolution. It is something similar to Bartolomé de las Casas book written centuries earlier about the plight of Indigenous Mexicans in the early colonial period. That book was written with the intention of getting the Spanish crown to make new laws to protect the human rights of the indigenous people.

The Mexican revolution turned out like all revolutions, a group of intermediate elites exploiting and stoking a popular uprising to overthrow the ruling elites and then instate themselves as the new rulers. Call me cynical.

the negotiations between the apartheid gov and Nelson Mandela, the generals refused and told the bastards that the army will stay in its barracks. It saved us from the apocalypse and opened the way for Madiba to create a peaceful political revolution.

Americans could do worse than embracing Bernie Sanders as their Nelson Mandela (blessed be he forever.)