Immigrant Invasion! Gringo Hordes Threaten Mexico

by **Gouda** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:06 am

Think the border wall will keep these rich, northern migrant hordes from overrunning and destroying Mexico? Baja beware, and note the bigoted hypocrisy. Gringos turn tide crossing border - Boomer retirees invading Mexico Mike Davis - Sunday, October 15, 2006 <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/15/ING93LLOUG1.DTL">www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/ar...LLOUG1.DTL</a> Gems: <blockquote>Quote:<hr>As in the past, nativism today is bigotry as surreal caricature, reality stood on its head. The ultimate irony, however, is that there really is something that might be called a "border invasion," but the Minutemen's billboards are on the wrong side of the freeway. (...) What few people -- at least, outside of Mexico -- have bothered to notice is that while all the nannies, cooks and maids have been heading north to tend the luxury lifestyles of irate Republicans, the gringo hordes have been rushing south to enjoy glorious budget retirements and affordable second homes under the Mexican sun. (...) Shrewd Baby Boomers are not simply feathering nests for eventual retirement, but also increasingly speculating in Mexican resort property, sending up property values to the detriment of locals whose children are consequently driven into slums or forced to emigrate north, increasing the "invasion" charges. (...) Although Canadian and Arizona speculators have taken large bites out of Baja's southern cape, Los Cabos -- at least judging from the registration of private planes at the local airport -- has essentially become a resort suburb of Orange County, the home of the most vehement Minutemen chapters.  (...) Many wealthy Southern Californians evidently see no contradiction between fuming over the "alien invasion" with one's conservative friends at the Newport Marina one day and flying down to Cabo the next for some sea-kayaking or celebrity golf. (...) One of the irresistible attractions of Baja is that it has preserved a primordial wildness that has disappeared elsewhere in the West. Residents, including a very eloquent indigenous environmental movement, cherish this incomparable landscape as they do the survival of an egalitarian ethos in the peninsula's small towns and fishing villages. Thanks to the silent invasion of the Baby Boomers from the north, however, much of the natural history and frontier culture of Baja could be swept away in the next generation. One of the world's most magnificent wild coastlines could be turned into generic tourist sprawl, waiting for Dunkin' Donuts to open. Locals, accordingly, have every reason to fear that today's mega-resorts and mock-colonial suburbs, like Fonatur's entire tourism-centered strategy of regional development, are merely the latest Trojan horses of Manifest Destiny. <hr></blockquote> Imagine “the Big Hotels, Owned by All of You,” and that, “Newspapers Will Be Property of their Workers” By Al Giordano - The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign in Baja California Sur <a href="http://www.narconews.com/Issue43/article2169.html">www.narconews.com/Issue43...e2169.html</a> <blockquote>Quote:<hr>LA PAZ, BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR; OCTOBER 14, 2006: The greedy grab by international hotel chains and real estate speculators, among other industries, for the more than 3,000 kilometers of coastline along the Baja California Peninsula has placed its human residents and nature itself under daily attack... It is an environmental and human disaster of epic proportions, irreversible, irrevocable. No slow “reform” or “legislation” could stop this death sentence killing Baja – the fourth longest peninsula on earth – even if it were to be tried, but that is a moot point anyway since the members of the Mexican political class have rented themselves out to make the first attacks and behind them come the big money boys of international capitalism to mop it up: All of it. In every corner of the peninsula’s southernmost tip the destruction is visible but the pain of those who suffer most from it is silenced... Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos – who arrived in Baja California Sur by ferry boat early Friday morning after authorities backed down from their threats to deny him a ticket – heard the testimony of those who witnessed and must live in the ruins of what happened to this Eden on Earth. By midday Saturday, with urgency in his voice, he suggested a path out of this hell in paradise:   “Imagine if the big hotels were owned by you and if you were the administrators… There is a hotel owned by an indigenous community in the state of Hidalgo… The education of all the children of that community is funded through scholarships from the proceeds through their graduation from universities.” One of those who spoke, Sergio Rodríguez Aroña, had trekked three hours from the ejido El Centenario near La Paz to explain that in his neighborhood “100 percent of the communal land owners have been expelled from their lands… Now the new owners are building a gringo colony called Lomas del Centenario and the former farmers are the pawns and construction workers for the gringos.” The new owners have buried half the mangrove swamps along the salt-water inlet in landfill to build their estates, he reported, and have turned the bay into “a glass of fecal water.” He invited all present to come and see it for themselves the following day.<hr></blockquote>

Immigrant Invasion! Gringo Hordes Threaten Mexico

Immigrant Invasion! Gringo Hordes Threaten Mexico

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