Folks, we have all watched the North American economic moves with great interest ever since the first discussions about reforming NAFTA were triggered by Donald Trump. Well, things are about to get even more interesting, and we will have a front seat to see how this plays out.
Joe Biden and Canada’s Justin Trudeau are in ideological alignment, willing to destroy the entire North American economy as they construct the new climate change energy systems for the U.S and Canada. However, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador (AMLO) has already indicated -including direct statements to Joe Biden at the White House– that he is not willing to put the Mexican economy into collapse and try to engineer an economic future on solar panels and windmills.
As a direct result of following an independent path, the Mexican currency has strengthened against the U.S. dollar providing AMLO with evidence his current strategy to stay away from the U.S. energy policy has benefit. Factually, AMLO is a soft-socialist (immigration); however, he is also a strong economic nationalist who has previously expressed a strong dislike for the influence of multinational corporations in Mexico. AMLO is not a World Economic Forum acolyte. AMLO ideologically aligned toward team BRICS.
The U.S. and Canada are going to push every possible political pressure point in order to force Mexico to change energy policy. The stakes are high. It is going to be remarkable to watch what happens as this battle takes place. The Wall Street Journal starts to notice:
(Wall Street Journal) – A shake-up of Mexican trade officials has clouded prospects for a quick resolution of a dispute with the U.S. and Canada over what are seen as Mexico’s nationalist energy policies.
The changes at the Economy Ministry are part of an effort by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to put people who support his stance in charge of negotiations, according to people familiar with the situation.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai is scheduled to meet with Mexico’s new top trade official, Economy Minister Raquel Buenrostro, on Thursday. But there is a tacit agreement to extend dispute resolution talks until December, when the leaders of the U.S., Mexico and Canada are expected to meet in Mexico to review the implementation of the North American trade deal known as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the people familiar said.
The U.S. Trade Representative’s office in July requested dispute-settlement consultations with Mexico under the USMCA, alleging that Mexico’s energy policies undermine U.S. companies in favor of Mexico’s state-run electric utility CFE and oil company Petróleos Mexicanos.
Canada also joined the consultations, which represent a challenge to one of Mr. López Obrador’s top policy priorities: greater state intervention and control over Mexico’s oil and electricity markets.
[…] Mr. López Obrador opposed his predecessor’s opening of the energy sector to private and foreign investment. Since the consultations began he has stepped up his nationalist rhetoric on energy.
“Our sovereign energy policy…isn’t subject to negotiation, it’s a matter of principles,” he said last month.
Mr. López Obrador has also said that he hopes to avoid a costly trade dispute. “We’re looking for an agreement, an understanding, and to avoid confrontation,” he said. (read more)
The ideologues in the Biden administration will not accept Mexico continuing to exploit cheap natural energy products like oil, coal and gas. As the USA and Canada punish citizens with inflation and massive economic consequences from Green New Deal energy policy, they cannot allow Mexico to be a source of stable low-priced goods and services. Amid other economic outcomes, the next-door neighbor contrast would be too politically damaging.
We can expect the Biden administration to work with Wall Street corporations on a level of economic targeting of Mexico similar to the western alliance sanctions against Russia. It will be extremely interesting to see just how strong AMLO can be in the face of serious threats from the USA and Canada.
I’m not talking about little threats, or ordinary economic pressure points; watch closely how the U.S threats are established. The ideologues around Joe Biden will seek to destroy AMLO if he does not go along with the energy change effort.
Watch this closely. The leftist hypocrisies are going to be off the charts as they target the Mexicans for punishment.
♦ Flashback to July, 2022: AMLO tells Biden that Mexico will continue investing in expanded refining of gasoline, and he is willing to sell that gasoline to American companies because Joe Biden will not issue permits to expand gasoline refining capacity in the United States. Additionally, AMLO affirms his position on further oil development in Mexico and then, here comes the kicker,…. offers to expand electricity sales to the United States, including supplying Texas with electricity because both the Biden administration and Texas are not developing their own energy resources.
[Transcript] – PRESIDENT LÓPEZ OBRADOR: (As interpreted.) Yes, I fully coincide with what you have proposed, President Biden. And I could summarize everything we’ve been saying in five basic items of cooperation.
Number one, since the energy crisis started, Mexico has used 72 percent of its crude and fuel oil exports to United States refineries — 800,000 barrels a day.
Therefore, we decided that while we’re waiting for prices of gasoline to go down in the United States — and I hope that Congress approves or passes your proposal, Mr. President —
PRESIDENT BIDEN: It has gone down for 30 days in a row. (Laughs.)
PRESIDENT LÓPEZ OBRADOR: (As interpreted.) — of lowering — lowering prices, yes. That’s it.
In the meantime, while we’re waiting for prices to go down, we have decided that it was necessary for us to allow Americans who live close to the borderline so that they could go and get their gasoline on the Mexican side at lower prices.
And right now, a lot of the drivers — a lot of the Americans — are going to Mexico, to the Mexican border, to get their gasoline.
However, we could increase our inventories immediately. We are committed to guaranteeing twice as much supply of fuel. That would be considerable support.
Right now, a gallon of regular costs $4.78 average on this side of the border. And in our territory, $3.12.
Let me clarify something, and I also want to take advantage of this opportunity to thank you, Mr. President. Most of this gasoline, we are producing it in the Pemex refinery that you allowed us to buy in Deer Park, Texas.
Two, we are putting at the disposal — or sending at the disposal of your administration over 1,000 kilometers of gas pipelines throughout the southern border with Mexico to transport gas from Texas to New Mexico, Arizona, and California for a volume that can generate up to 750 megawatts of electric energy and supply about 3 million people.
Three, even though the USMCA has made progress for the elimination of tariffs, there are still some others that could be immediately suspended. And we could do the same with some regulations, regulatory measures, and tedious procedures or red tape in terms of trade related to foodstuffs and other products so that we can lower prices for consumers in both our countries, always being very careful in the protection of health and the environment.
Four, starting a private-public investment plan between our two countries to produce all those goods that will be strengthening our markets so that we can avoid having importations from other regions or continents.
In our country, we shall continue producing oil throughout the energy transition. With the U.S. investors, we are going to be establishing gas-liquefying plants, fertilizer plants, and we shall continue promoting the creation of solar energy parks in the state of Sonora and other border states as well.
And we’re going to accomplish this with the support of thermal electric plants and also through transmission lines to produce energy in the domestic market, as well as for exports, to neighboring states in the American union, as for instance, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.
It’s also important to mention that, two months ago, we took the sovereign decision of nationalizing lithium in Mexico. This is a fundamental mineral, a fundamental input to advance in our purpose not to depend on fossil fuels. And this will be available for the technological modernization of the automotive industry among our great countries — the countries of the USMCA.
Five, orderly migration flow and allowing arrival in the United States of workers, technicians, and professionals of different disciplines. I’m talking about Mexicans and Central Americans with temporary work visas to ensure not paralyzing the economy because of the lack of labor force.
The purpose of this plan would be to support and to have the right labor force that will be demanded by the plan you proposed and that was passed by Congress of using $1 trillion for the construction of infrastructure works. (read more)
Mexican President Lopez-Obrador was offering to bail out the United States energy crisis.
A crisis that Joe Biden has created.
Calling it now.
There will be bootleg fuel getting smuggled through the US.
This could be what convinces the administration to tighten up border security.
I doubt it.
Likely they would redouble the efforts to eliminate carbon based fuels.
Illegal aliens will continue being given preferential treatment, unabated for other reasons.
No, they would call their buddies, the cartels, to kill them and the bootleg gas would come to a complete halt. The Biden Admin can kill without impunity outside the borders using third parties.
Honestly, the cartels are financially driven, like mercenarys,
Who will reliably pay them the most?
I’m expecting a tragic explosion at the refinery. Mysterious how the natural gas plant went down.
It seems like closing the border and leaving all of the hoardes from Central and South America in Mexico on their way to the US stuck in Mexico might be a sanction Biden would impose.
These people are easily turned to slaves. Bidenistas want them in the US.
We Americans aren’t interested in being slaves.
The AMLO/ Mexican administration. No intervention into Mexico. Mexicans believe in God and are Christians. Fossil Fuels forever.
The kick backs from the cartels are too big.
Wonder when the US starts financially sanctioning Mexico.
I am not sure Mexico is going to play ball. This may push them to BRICS+.
How are sanctions supposed to hurt Mexico with all the illicit trade back and forth as it is?
Would just make it all the more profitable with more black markets I think.
No, RFB.
HOW do you think PDJT got the Mexican Govt to put its 28,000 troops on the border?
He threatened to TARIFF their autos and parts, 25 percent.
Interestingly, Article 1, section 10 lists the things States can’t do, UNLESS they are being invaded.
One of the first refers to”tonnage fees” which I THINK means charging $ for any imported goods, i.e. tariffs.
So, theoretically a State Governor declaring an Invasion, would enable them to charge tariffs.
Don’t see it unless it’s from ones supporting America first and not America last.
A dozen more Governors like that Kari Lake with President Trump back in the Oval Office will clean that up in a jiffy.
It’s happening now. I’m a Yucatecan. This gobermnt in USA is not what Mexican people want or like. They blame inflation on America not Russia.
They blame everything on America, always have, in the 55 years I have been visiting Mexico. It’s a national sport, and an intrinsic part of the love-hate relationship between Mexico and the US.
WG,
Mexico is already there.
ANY oil producing country has to know by now, WEF will get to them, sooner or later.
They either get “regime change”, kowtow and stop production, or join BRICS.
For the time being they need us to buy their agricultural products, and most importantly, to refine their heavy, sour (sulphurous) oil…Not one of their 6 PEMEX refineries can refine oil into gasoline or jet fuel.
Cut off that access, and MX would be on its knees within days. Achilles Heel.
Makes sense. The cartels would start smuggling diesel instead of fentanyl and illegals. Follow the money.
Vission of 50 illegals being smuggled across the border, each with a jerrycan strapped to his back, lol.
Some have commented that we would be justified in acting like Russia if Putin were setting nukes across the border in Mexico.
Well, if these abuses keep up, we are going to drive Mexico to beg Russia and China for help.
Really, while blaming everyone else and taking no responsibility for their evil actions, they are forcing their evil on others. Western leadership has devolved into brute criminality.
Quite frankly. What AMLO just discussed with Joe Biden in the Oval is WAY over his head.
I like the way Joe tries to correct AMLO, and AMLO just repeats the truth and moves on.
AMLO outclasses Joe, so easily.
What a debacle. And then there is the “North American EU” issue lurking..
In Joe’s world, we’re already one with the EU.
Not if we can help it – I truly hope King Idiot from Ottawa is never allowed in Western airspace ever again.
He can go surf off St. John’s.
Mexico needs to tell them to go pound sand.
The drug cartel war lords have a lot to say about what Mexico does and does not do.
and
Obrador is just the front man.
These cartels are nasty brutal and pretty much in charge in Mexico.
If they want gas, oil and coal for their energy they will get it and nothing will change their minds.
The word leaders have run up against a group of people who do not give a rats a** to what they think or want.
This is going to be interesting to watch.
We don’t want no green scam in Mexico!! Period. Poco de poco si!
Amen!
They are!!!
It is imperative the Mexican economy be destroyed like America/Canada.
It would be sooo embarrassing to have them seen as the shining city on the hill of the Western hemisphere..
Mexico has a 4 point GDP. NOW
Admin, I’ve been with the site for years and, admittedly I post sporadically, but I still have my comments flagged for approval. Is there a commenting threshold I’ve not yet crossed?
Sorry Ace….you’re not on our moderation list. For some reason (?) our spam filter picked up on you. I searched through the list and didn’t see anything that was close to matching your email address. Let’s hope this was just a one off…if not, I’ll dig further.
Thanks much!
Obrador has spoken favourably of establishing a no borders North American Alliance, comprised of Canada, the US, and Mexico, with an EU style type governance…i.e unelected authoritarians ruling over said countries.
No borders…just one big happy family.
This is the satanic WEF plan for eventual global tyranny, one section of the world at a time, sovereign nations’ populations be damned.
In a way, I hope Canada and the US show Obrador what they really are in this case. Untrustworthy mafia types that will demand their pound of Obrador’s flesh.
Perhaps then Obrador will know partnering with either or both countries would mean the end of his political career…or himself…and will withdraw any support for either country, thus throwing one big spanner into the machinations of the WEF.
It’s all connected. I’ll be watching with extreme interest.
Educated Mexican don’t care for American policies one iota. Will fight tooth and nail to stop the aggressive gobermnt of Joe. Viva Mexico 🇲🇽
México ha sido y seguirá siendo socialista en la búsqueda de su verdadero Norte.
Joe is temporary. in another year of so, or sooner he will be gone. Hopefully, Mexico will watch and wait for his demise.
Global Bankers are all Pro-China… so says a global banker.
https://archive.ph/2022.11.02-162812/https://www.ft.com/content/037cc9d0-b214-43a6-8bcb-43f76507f9c5
I think that’s BS.
The Global Bankers and money changers are the ones funding the EU, Climate Change, WEF, Davos, etc… they are the ones funding the Leftist globalists.
China is dangerous to them… just as are Russia and BRICS.
Wouldn’t it be great to see Obrador package up all these points and proposals and run them as public service announcements on TV and internet here?
Tweeter!
I hope Canada’s strategy is completely filling the prairies with windmills, because for solar panels the days of sunshine are about to get really short in the northern hemisphere.
Civilization needs affordable energy to be prosperous and viable.
Guess the USA and Canada won’t be very civilized very soon.
Question of the day: If people cause CO2 emissions, driving cars, littering plastic and Canada is anti-climate-change, why does Canada want to import 500,000 new immigrant people per year up until 2025?
Unless they lubricate the gears and bearings in those windmills with subzero lubricants they’ll seize up with winter’s first good freeze.
Because they know that the CO2 emissions climate change is a scam. More CO2 would actually help plant life on this planet.
Coccolithophores have been doing their part in burying CO2 in the form of Carbonate minerals for something like a billion years or more.
Do those watermelons wonder where all that chalk came from? Doubt it.
More fundamentally:
Silicon shortages are around the corner. Ironically, this is due to carbon (coal or wood) needs!
LMAO fossil fuel policies undercut solar panel production.
Let’s see. We could start sending heavy NATO weapons and CIA instructors to the cartels, like we did with the Nazis in Ukraine. We could freeze the gold reserves of Mexico and hand them over to an opposition leader like we did in Venezuela. We could send our NGO’s into Mexico to stir up protests like we are doing in Iran. We could send CIA operatives into Mexico and assassinate him like we did in Libya. We could “find evidence” of WMD’s in Mexico (supposedly placed there by China), send in the Marines, and kill him along with millions of ordinary people, like Bush did in Iraq.
We’ve got lots of tools. We are utterly determined that the entire world will be an American dominion to exploit.
The problem is that the drug cartels are gonna be very tough nut to crack for our high heeled army.
And in no time at all you may have the enraged people of Mexico support the cartels….
Already do…with respect.
AMLO will go along or else US/CAN will cause trouble for Mexican exports of migrants, drugs, and crime.
B.S.
Mexico should just joins BRICS+
A lot of farmers are selling produce all over the world. South Korea…..Russia….zchins now!
The CCP is all over this.
Their philosophy for takeover is deception and encirclement.
Canada, the US and now Mexico. Brazil fell today. Look at the map.
Lula was president when BRICS was formed. I’m sure he plans to continue a nationalist policy like other leaders of BRICS. I don’t think Lula plans for Brazil to become a US puppet, no matter what the US is hoping.
He will pursue a policy for those above who got him elected.
Brazil is brics. Riots everywhere in Brazil. Ain’t over .
To me, I see this as a tell. A message as it were. The glowbullist either have no fear of losing power, or they are full-speed ahead with their agenda before they loose power. I look at what is going on in South America. Columbia, then Brazil, the fiasco in London, and even before with the French election. The leftist take over of the nations who are not in alignment with the WEF/UN agenda 2030… pick a flavor. If they can keep power, currency will crash everywhere. Ushering in the digital money by January, at least this is what I have heard from them. Gone will be privacy, personal choice and freedom of thought.
I never in my life would I have even had this thinking. I am as about as normal average cabbage ever as you ever saw. Until the demonicrat party and it’s organ grinder monkey republican party betrayed us, thinking 9-11. I am not too confident in the coming elections. We need to be vigilant, byedones message just a bit ago tells you a lot if you listen. They have plans to keep power. And they are willing to do whatever it takes to keep power. Nothing is off limits.
I agree with every single word you wrote.
Climate czar Kerry says ONLY electric cars will be produced in the US by 2035.
https://www.climatedepot.com/2022/06/24/biden-climate-czar-john-kerry-says-by-2035-the-u-s-will-only-be-producing-electric-vehicles/
Puke! 🙁
That will be tricky with so little raw material available. If someone is saying that it’s only EV’s, then what they’re really saying is that no one will be owning their own car, beyond the elites.
Not.
Mexico will build gasoline and diesel powered cars and trucks…..Kenworths are built in Mexicali now.
That’s an AMERICAN COMPANY that just happens to be located right across the border from the US. These are not truly MEXICAN trucks.
It’s just another US manufacturer that moved to Mexico for cheap labor. It’s not really Mexican.
All the knowledge and know-how is American. Without American & European manufacturing knowledge and processes, Mexico couldn’t manufacture anything on its own.
Unlike China, MX has not learned anything from the auto and other kinds of manufacturing brought to it… Auto, medical device, tech, etc, in all these years. It doesn’t even produce and educate its own petroleum engineers. MX has to import them.
It’s largely dependent on, and vulnerable to, extraneous forces, because it has never learned to be self-sufficient. It is completely dependent on FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) for most of its GDP. Take that away, and it’s still a feudal system at its core.
53% more expensive fuel across the border and even more when one goes to California.
Why are politicians not running adverts showing this?
Because they have to tow the line, too.
I am in Mexico (Cabo) right now. Just drove past a gas station
22 peso per liter
Approximately $4.20/ gal
Since it’s a tourist area and connected to Commiefornia, I imagine it’s cheaper near Texas?
Mexico knows that in two years this goes away.
Don’t be so sure
I recall that after he was elected, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador found an economic common ground with Trump that benefited both our nations.
Actually Pina approved the deal while still President and informed AMLO, then President Elect of Mexico, that this was a good deal with the US.
You would need to understand the peculiar love-hate dynamic that goes on with MX and the US.
AMLO (and most Mexicans) think that it’s fine to lie, steal, and cheat the US (or anywhere else) to get something Mexico wants. It’s particularly acute with the US. Mexico has exported its poverty, drugs, overpopulation, and crime for as long as I can remember, and has believed it has been entitled to do so.
P. Trump had to impose the tariffs on MX to get the “Remain in MX” policy in place.
AMLO is in office until 2024, one term of 6 years. He’s not gonna be intimidated by the US. It will be interesting to see.
I expect that Biden will find a way to disable the PEMEX-owned, previous Shell Dos Bocas refinery in Houston very soon.
Mexico’s inability to refine its sour oil into gasoline and jet fuel has been its Achilles heel for decades. Shut that off, and MX will be on its knees in 10 days.
Mr. Baker at http://www.energia-mx.com has done cross-border oil development for many years. If you want to understand the odd energy relationship between MX and the US, just read his postings there.
The Mexican military is Everywhere. I see them daily. They are real!
Bob, how in the world does your comment respond to my comment?
NAFTA might have worked, had the original concept been followed. The idea of uniting Mexico (75 million people, labor), Canada (20 million people, natural resources) and the United States, (275 million people, consumers) could have easily been done. But for it to succeed we would have needed to ring fence North America. Clinton destroyed that when he brought in China. We could have absorbed 95 million people right over our borders, trying to bring 1.2 billion chinese into the middle class bankrupted our country
not sure what population figures you are using….Mexico —- 130 M, Canada —- 38+ M, US —- 330+M
1993, the year NAFTA was signed. I tend to round numbers off. They should be accurate plus or minus 10 million
Think he is using population from late 80s when NAFTA was concocted
Yes. I should have clarified that in the original post. Thanks
“We can expect the Biden administration to work with Wall Street corporations on a level of economic targeting of Mexico similar to the western alliance sanctions against Russia. It will be extremely interesting to see just how strong AMLO can be in the face of serious threats from the USA and Canada.”
Maybe AMLO should announce that he is seriously thinking about inviting the Russians and/or the Chinese to build a couple of Air Bases and Naval Bases in Mexico.
Given the expansion of NATO to Russias doorstep, totally reasonable that Russia extend a military protection to Mexico; how can the U.S. Justify objecting, lol.
AMLO does have some leverage. Back off Biden or else you don’t get your illegals.
BRICS+
Unfortunately, in Canada, the once promising new Conservative leader Poilievre and his MP’s are still terrified to debate “Climate Change” issues with Trudeau or even mention the phrase. For 2 weeks or so, he has repeatedly demanded Trudeau reduce “triple Carbon taxes and the inflationary deficits” (the only partial reference to Green policies) but not the actual reasons why. Trudeau then responds with the same slick diversions and accusations.
“Question Period” in Parliament has become a wasteful and irritating exercise in watching the same show over and over. Very disappointing as Poilievre can be an articulate orator. I doubt the Conservatives will intervene and support Mexico’s decision to oppose the Biden/Trudeau Green New Deal partnership because it would involve actually mentioning the life altering Climate Change hardships.
Cursor to 2:10 if needed
IMHO,
It took me 1-2 minutes to detirmine PP is an idiot, and a WEFer.
Was NEVER promising.
If you think you are going to vote this WEF cabal out you are going to be shocked. There is too much money at stake. They will never allow themselves to be voted out by the unwashed peasants. The election outcomes are going to be manipulated and people will just accept that their candidates “lost”.
Gee, several days before an election.
The “Swamp the vote to defeat the cheat” strategy has been successfully used, and depends on MAX turn out.
And here we see LOTS of comments that voting won’t do anything.
Thing is, its not like voting takes such a tremendous amount if $ or effort.
WHY are you on THIS site, full of Conservatives, and posting comments discouraging voting?
What POSSIBLE motive could you have,…gee I wonder/s
Vote, BECAUSE your life depends on it!
Team BRICS is going to end up with all the world’s necessary fossil fuel energy.
Also, it is such a disappointment to see our foreign friend nations that Trump had a good relationship based on mutual respect be ripped apart and forced towards China/Russia by the Biden Admin.
Well, US retribution against Mexico can’t exactly be in the form of sending the illegal border jumpers back, as the border jumper policy is a major part of the current power play here.
Just refuse to refine their sulfer-contaminted, heavy, dirty oil, and MX would be on its knees in a week, I promise. Not one PEMEX refinery can refine MX oil into gasoline…Not one.
All their oil is refined here in the US. It is their Achilles heel.
Not for long.
If you think that new refinery in Tabasco is going to be up and running anytime soon, you are misinformed.
What needs answering: Does AMLO actually like average Mexicans, and Mexico? … We know Donald Trump likes average Americans and our America. … The Globalists affinity is for the other Globalists holding political and economic power.
………… We can similar situations in history, when people of Royal Blood would belong to a ‘network’ of Royal Rulers. …… The peasants and serfs were treated as subservient workers. … The enforcers for the government knelt in loyalty to the Rulers.
AMLO craves power, he has a messianic complex, and it’s more about being the “true savior of the people”, then about their real welfare.
Even national assembly leaders of his own party have called him out for being a dictator, and bypassing the votes of the assembly (the MX equivalent of Congress) in order to impose a decree, even one that could have passed in the assembly.
Now, there is fear throughout the MX gov’t to criticize him. They self-censor. He has increased and consolidated the various military forces under his command.
There is talk that he will not leave office when his term is up. I will tell you this …He has no intention of complying with the terms of the USMCA.
Lol…I live in Mexico. Do your homework.
OK, Bob…I have had enough of your silly, ill-informed comments.
I also own a home in Mexico, have for a number of years. I speak Spanish, have been visiting for 55 years. I talk with several professional MX friends about these matters. I read La Reforma & other Spanish-language papers. I have a Residente Permanente visa.
And as crazy as it makes me, I understand a fair amount about Mexican politics.
Your comments here make little sense, nor do they enlighten anyone here. If you have a differing opinion, then make your case. Say SOMETHING of informational value.
Missy, thank you for your reply, as it provides a point of view of AMLO. … I used Trump in my comment for a reason. … Trump actually ~likes average Americans, and America. [Trump did not work to ‘transform’ America into a solidly subservient part of the Globalist coalition.
……… Pro-Life Donald Trump was called ~Hitler and a ~war monger [+In collusion with Putin.] = by the Fake News and OUR Globalists politicians.
The question still remains, does AMLO actually like average Mexicans and want the best for Mexico?
…. … The USMCA economic Treaty replaced the NAFTA Treaty. … NAFTA, as predicted, was an economic disaster for the USA. … The USMCA is an improvement, and the best Trump could do within our ‘uni-party’ political system. The USMCA can still be great improved to bring more jobs back to the USA.
AMLO apparently wants to Make Mexico Great for Mexicans, and NOT the Globalists. … Americans can travel to Mexico and buy less costly Food and Gasoline.
……… And Yes, current Mexico makes the old time American Wild West look like a Girl Scouts Campout. Can this be blamed AMLO? … There’s a HUGE amount of money to be made in illegal drugs and illegal immigration. ~ Bags of Yankee Dollars will buy friends with both American and Mexican ~Globalist Politicians. [It’s beyond the envelopes of cash!]
The question still remains, does AMLO actually ~like average working Mexicans and want the best for Mexico?
Yes he does love the average Mexican. The crowds at his talks to various states in Mexico are like President Trumps.
Nationalism in embedded in SOME cultures, more than others.
I think Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia have strong Nationalist sentiment, and are resistant to Globalism.
Other countries as well.
WEF deals with this by corrupting LEADERS, to ignore or betray the nationalist sentiments of the populace.
Good observation.
Great reply…I think AMLO likes them, in theory, but he has had a lot of opportunity to “do good”, out of his own pocket, for the Mexican people, and has not done so. His whole life has been running for office (and the MX gov’t funds all of that). He has actually been known to run for several state-funded political positions at a time, to increase his income, LOL!
He was mayor of Mexico City in 2000. The Wikipedia article is pretty descriptive of his history. He’s an odd bird, and the old entrenched PRI ruling class (like our RINOs) hates him.
He is not predictable, like Trump. He is VERY tied up in his ideology, and I suspect he loves that more than he loves “the people”. It’s a very mixed bag…
So I can’t give you a definitive answer on that. He’s a bit of an enigma. He likes the people more than the classic MX politicians do…
Here’s his Wikipedia entry, and it’s not too far off base.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrés_Manuel_López_Obrador
Missy, thank you for your reply.
… … We shall see about AMLO. … I read the Wiki article. … But, like a lot cursory articles, we wonder if it is truthful. … For example: the ~Clintons are often portrayed as a compassion couple, when they are extraordinarily corrupt politicians. … Donald Trump is portrayed as Dracula risen from a coffin. Yet, Trump worked to make every average working American wealthier [and stopped as much as possible our involvement in the Endless and Useless Wars].
‘AMLO is beset by sin, and doesn’t help the poor as much as he could [from his own pocket].’ = At least we now know AMLO belongs to the human race.
Does AMLO try to make the average Mexican more prosperous? Does AMLO facilitate the fulfilling of both the physical and spiritual needs of all Mexicans?
We are ALL obligated to help the poor from our own pockets. We are ALL given the opportunity by God to become Saints in Heaven. … We can’t make a career of ‘stealing’ from the poor. .. +We can NOT ignore the suffering poor, either. … The Earth can provide for the Common Good of all of us.
AMLO was elected President of Mexico. His job is to make the economy of Mexico prosperous for Mexicans ~without trying to make other nations suffer. [Trump would say, ‘He was elected President of the United States, and should govern for the benefit of Americans.]
Does AMLO shout “Viva la Mexico” with sincerity, or does he secretly believe, “Viva la Globalists” as he governs in Mexico?
No, he is NOT a globalist, by any means! He’s an odd mix of ideology and pragmatism. You never know which side will pop up…And he’s a confirmed socialist. Lazaro Cardenas, the Mexican president in the ’30s, who nationalized both the oil and railroad industries, is his idol.
I’m not a fan of Wikipedia, but their description was pretty accurate.
Mexico has a centralized tax system, for income and distribution, and AMLO has taken from the meager Treasury and given some financial help to the poor.
But COVID really hurt his plans, and he handled it badly…Very badly. It also reduced the nat’l tax income.
Almost all state & municipal income comes from the central gov’t, and altho he rails against “the rich”, there’s not enough money to do all he wants to do, using the centralized tax system.
He WILL do what he can to protect MX, but the country is very vulnerable to exit of foreign direct investment (auto, medical device, large appliance, air conditioning manufacturing), especially by US companies. MX cannot survive without it.
And like most Mexicans, he both hates and loves America. We’ll just have to see.
One of Trudeau’s election promises was to plant 2 billion trees. Sounds impressive, except Canada already has 318 billion trees.
Canada, stupidest country on the globe.
But Obrador is not offering Hunter a board seat at the Pemex company, and thats why Jivin Joe aint having it. His personal benefit is the rubric for policy.
Hunter and his buddies tried to BUY PEMEX from MX back in pre-AMLO days. Look it up.
PEMEX is broke, broke, broke. Their bonds keep getting downgraded. Why Hunter would want it is beyond me.
cant think of a quicker way to lose the Latin vote, they ll just have to cheat a bit harder, AMLO should join BRICS, see how Biden feels about an enemy right at his border
Ay caramba!
Nos vamos a Mejico… adios al hijo de puta FJB.
From the full transcript, lol. Sounds like Sleepy is really paying attention to AMLO.
Without reaching an extremist position of closing our economies, we should remember that the development of our nations depends fundamentally on their productive capacity.
President Biden, I’m about to finish. (Laughter.)
PRESIDENT BIDEN: Let me say one thing. I can’t get over how that lovely lady is holding that camera steady all this time. (Inaudible.) (Laughter.) It’s amazing.
Sorry for the distraction.
This is not going to go well.
Nothing is going well right now.
Think about the infrastructure! Station owners would have to know of, and in the middle of the night buy gas off a truck hauling Mexico gas/diesel. It could be done by masquerading trucks with well known labeling, but then the truck driver runs the risk of getting turned in by station owners who support the climate change narrative.
There could be some border stations participating, but never on a large scale. Once the practice is discovered, policing would not be that difficult, and I imagine penalties would be severe.
That is done ALL THE TIME in Mexico!
There is a potential interesting dynamic in play here.
AMLO demand a 100% return to NAFTA.
One of the really big winners in that scenario is China Inc. and their US as well as Mexican Shell Companies, especially those supporting Green Crap.
As I, figuratively speaking, “smoke this thing over,” I continue to ponder, “What is the Long Game of this ‘climate change’ thing?” There is another game afoot – one which they are now trying to conceal.
It makes no sense at all that nations would actually try to destroy or even to jeopardize their own energy infrastructure. It makes no sense that they would push “electric cars and trucks” when there is not enough generating capacity available to recharge them and it takes far too much time to do so anyway.
So, their stated “final state” is unattainable and unsustainable, and they know it. And yet, they are systematically trying to impose it. In fact, they are going to what appears to be nonsensical lengths to impose it. Why?
It is a ruse.
Therefore, the actual “final state” which they are actually working for must be “short of this, but along the way.” And the only thing that we can be certain of, as we try to puzzle out what their game actually is, is that “it’s going to make a very small number of ‘elite’ people fantastically wealthy.” Even if the Rumpelstiltskin currency turns to straw in their hands.
What is the real game here? It has to be “right in front of our eyes,” just concealed by intentional deception. 🧐
All this talk of “CO2” and “electric cars” must be some kind of a feint …
What are they really up to?
I am not sure but without CO2 there is no life on this planet. It is not only CO2 that is being demonized, either. Nitrogen, the most common element in our atmosphere, is being attacked as pollution too. It seems the rulers of this world want a cold sterile planet.
Research CARBON CREDITS, Trillions of new monopoly $ for them to play with.
Actually, I still haven’t ruled out Klause is a space alien, and in those behind closed door meetings he is “duping” all of the “World leaders”.
Eventual plan; take the population down to 500 million by having us do it to ourselves, while leaving all the infrastructure intact, and then either killing off or enslaving the last humans, and saving all that oil for the aliens to use.
I remember the “carbon credits” exchange that was set up by Al Gore, designed to make him and his greedy lefty buddies an absolute fortune collecting commissions on both ends of the trade…And then, he lost the election.
It has nothing to do with climate change.
It is yet another dishonest tactic used to coerce business and the citizens to bow down to authoritarian government demands. The science presented to support the climate change agenda is fake – doesn’t exist.
It is the globalists’ way of imprisoning national populations by limiting – and ultimately removing – individuals’ ability to move freely about their country, by limiting their food supplies to force citizens into consuming what is permitted to be made available, and to kill off unwanted populations by limiting or denying their access to energy to heat in the winter or cool in the summer.
Read the UN Agenda 2030. That is where the satanically-motivated globalists want to take the earth.
Many Canadians and Americans winter in Mexico.
Many Californians have moved to Mexico due to the CA gov. Mexicans are unhappy about the Californians setting up new enclaves.
The stark contrast is already known and info spreads.
Globalists have decided that the 3 countries should become one Region.
AMLO is in the way.
130 million Mexicans are in the way.
Mexicans ARE NOT bothered by American people living in Mexico Legally. Meet the financial requirements and become a permanent resident. Mexicans love American people as long as they aren’t brash and braggarts.
Viva Mexico
The articles I have read concerning Americans moving from CA to MX address the “Brash and Braggarts.”
I would also dislike the B&B.
Thanks for adding more info that brings new context.
Let us burn coal out West, you moronic socks-a-sparkle.
If you wanna freeze, starve, or go broke, that’s your problem.
FJT – bloody idiot.
I’m sure AMLO won’t listen to advice, but I’ll offer it anyway. Tell the USA and Canada governments to “go pound sand”! I would also advise that he NOT align Mexico with China.
Mexico has to be able to get their oil refined into gasoline and jet fuel. It’s their Achilles heel. I think that’s why AMLO or his ambassador made a trip a while back to Venezuela. They both pump very sour, sulfates oil from their pools, and V. still may have some refining capacity.
Just my two cents.
You could swap Lopez Obrador with Volodymyr Zelenskyy on this conversation with the Biden family for profit goal
Another country setting up for their regime change?