SPANISH:
¡Pobre Mexico! ¡Tan lejos de Dios y tan cerca de los Estados
Unidos! §
SPANISH:
Pax Porfiana... §§
SPANISH:
Pan o palo... §§§
SPANISH:
La revolución es el opio de los intelectuales... §§§§
§) “Poor Mexico! So far from God
and so close to the United States!” — 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
exile in Spain. After the Mexican
revolution many industries were nationalized ;
§§) “Porfiana Peace...” — a period in Mexican history
(1876—1911) marked by Porfirio Diaz’ rule, where a surface stability,
modernization & economic growth was made possible by political repression
& by selling off everything to foreign corporations, esp. mining &
agri-business concerns. In 1911
the shit hit the fan with the Mexican Revolution & Diaz slithered off to
exile in Spain ;
§§§) “Bread
or the stick...” —
Porfirio Diaz’ strategy of offering problematic politicians or
generals two options: cushy &
obscenely-salaried sinecures, or a
blindfold & a last cigarette & a firing squad. (Diaz is said to have commented that a
dog with a bone would neither bite or bark.) ;
§§§§) “Revolution is the
opium of the intellectuals...” — Popular Post-May ’68 French
Situationist graffito that sprayed its way across European & US & Latin
American & Japanese campuses,
& found its way into Lindsay Anderson’s O LUCKY MAN!
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