SPANISH: “¡Pobre Mexico! ¡Tan lejos de Dios y tan cerca de Arizona!” ‡
‡ ) “Poor Mexico! So far from God and so close to Arizona!” — an update of a jape attrib. to Porfirio Diaz, who had participated in the routing of the French at Veracruz, & who served as “President” of Mexico from 1876 to 1911 (with a brief periods, 1876, & again 1880 — 1884, when fuck-puppets Juan Méndez & Manuel González respectively served as interim presidents) ; Diaz’s presidency was marked by a surface stability (modernization & economic growth) made possible by political repression, graft & corruption, & by selling off everything to foreign corporations, esp. mining & agri-business concerns. In 1911 Diaz was kicked out on his arse during the Mexican Revolution; he slithered off to expile in Spain. After the Mexican revolution many industries were nationalized; & to the north of Mexico are several of the United States of America — one particularly vexing state being Arizona, whose current regime consists of a bunch of racist teabonic republicoños...
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