SPANISH:
¡Pobre Mexico! ¡Tan lejos de Dios y tan cerca de los Estados Unidos! §
§) “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 expile in Spain. After the Mexican
revolution many industries were nationalized.
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from curse
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