No, not July 4, 1776.Let's talk about history, shall we class?
BORING!
Now now class, I promise this'll be very very interesting.
This week (September 15 and 16) marks Central American and Mexican Independence Day! What the ef does it all mean?! Well, like our American Revolution back in the late 1700's, the countries just south of the present day United States wanted their freedom too, from the tyrannical and unfair oppressive government of Spain. (And no, Cinco de Mayo is not Mexican Independence Day, it's just a battle where the French were stopped from invading back in the 1860's. )
Ah yes! The Motherland, that whore of whores Spain! Like England and her colonies, Spain had administered (efficiently, but devoid of human rights) large chunks of the Western Hemisphere from Mexico to Argentina from the 1500's till the 1800's, when Mexico and the countries below it decided they had had enough of the dwindling European power's interference in their affairs.
Those who called for independence: men like Hidalgo (Mexico), Delgado (El Salvador), Morelos (Mexico), Bolívar (Venezuela), O'Higgins (Chile), and San Martín (Argentina) many times lost their lives to execution as traitors of the ruling state and/or had to fight arduously with raised armies to fight the Spaniards. Like the United States before them, the blood they shed for their dream was not in vain. The South Americans too, around this same time were fighting to throw dem spics (the Spaniards) out of their affairs and were forming free nations up and down the coast.
Sadly, unlike the American Revolution, which broke us away from England and made us into a great prosperous nation, this is not the case with Mexico, Central America or South America. Ya see, after independence, the meddlesome buck-toothed oogly foul vile tea-drinking Brits decided they would meddle into the affairs of these new free nations. Well of course, they could afford to since the British Empire was at its peak in the 1800's as the world's leading power! The land continued to be exploited not by Spain now, but by England!
And as the United States grew as a world power in the late 1890's, so did its influence in what we now know and love to call Latin America. Exploitation and control yet again! Till the present day! No thanks of course to the mighty American dollar and the convenience with which it is used to buy present Latin American governments to keep the poor POOR and make the rich RICHER!
There is so much to be discussed and analyzed here, but I better let you go class. This is enough history for today. Hope you learned something here that you may not have already known and I hope it all sheds some light as to why we have so many ILLEEEEEGALLS crossing into our country today. Basically, these people would starve back home! They're eating shit and wanna save themselves and their families before it's too late!
All thanks to the colonial powers of the past and present!
Spain: The whore that raped great great great great grandma Huiztlititi, stole her gold, and made her speak Spanish and worship Jesus and a thousand saints.
England: The nosey bitch that built railroads and continued to steal more resources.
United States: The big-dicked meddler that continued the Spanish/English tradition, but oddly doesn't take care of its borders well enough perhaps due its guilty conscience and need for new "slaves".
Class is dismissed.
--Special thanks to Wikipedia for serving as a wonderful resource.
6 comments:
Who is to blame for El Salvador's civil war during the 80's which killed 100,000 people. Even though the USA supported the right-wing death squads. It was Cuba's support for the leftist guerillas that caused the most harm. And dont forget the 12yo boys being forcibly recruited by both sides. The Americas History 101.
Oh sure, Cuba (via the Soviets) played a major role, sure. No question. Both sides were oogly.
WAR is a part of LIFE. It always has been and always will be. From world wars to civil wars to wars within our own minds.
I thought Hidalgo was a horse......
who won a race in Arabia.
Any howzit you can't blame America 100%, and the New World Colonies never gained their independance. They may have shed the shackles of the Spainish Empire, but the Chains of the Catholic church still held them down.
They promoted keeping the poor and uneducated down in the dunps.
Those attempting to cross our borders should be shot. I have no sympathy. You can't always run away and become another problem yourself elsewhere. These scum bring in drugs.... populate like roaches...and ruin things. Yes there are a few.... but unfortunately they are way more bad than good.
The U.S. can't be blamed for some things. What about the Mexican-American war? The US marched in and took Mexico city and gave it back becuase those people were worthless lazy good for nothing beaners. Who wants to conquer them.
Did we forget to mention these the names of the revolutionary greedy Terrorist/Freedom Fighters.... in each of these countries. Revolutions took place......regardless who financed them....the people there caused there own problems because they wanted change.
To some Fidel Castro was a Freedom Fighter..... to some he was a commie terrorist. I say he was a Freedom Fighter....he cleaned up Cuba from American decadence.
Long Live Canada
No really Loren Soth, tell us how you truly feel. :)
Perhaps September 16 is more relevant to California's independence from European powers than July 4, since Califoria was still Mexico into the 1840s? History kinda makes the California-Mexico border seem arbitrarily drawn.
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