Mexico
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| Capital city | Mexico City |
| Location | North America |
| Type | nation state |
| Member of | G-20, International Energy Agency, OECD |
| Subpage | •Mexico/Ambassador to The USSR •Mexico/President •Mexico/Secretary of Foreign Affairs |
| Former Spanish colony | |
Mexico is the nation state immediately to the south of the US, or "Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States!" as president Porfirio Díaz once said.
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Demography
One-fifth of Mexicans live in the metropolitan area of Mexico City and three-fifths live in other cities, leaving only 21 million who are rural.
Cannabis as a 'Human Right'
In November 2015 Mexico's supreme court ruled 4-1 that smoking cannabis was a basic human right. This ruling concerned a nonprofit marijuana club — the Mexican Society for Responsible and Tolerant Autoconsumption, (SMART) and so did not immediately affect marijuana prohibition laws.[1]
Illegal Drug Trade
Mexico's geographical position makes it an import nation as far as the importation of illegal drugs into the USA - especially cocaine from South America. Joël van der Reijden writes that "Information that came out in the wake of the Kiki Camarena death clearly demonstrates that the CIA and Mexican government have been working hand in hand with the drug cartels, with the CIA apparently controlling and employing them as right wing death squads", also noting that "hundreds of journalists have been murdered or disappeared in Mexico in the past decades."[2]
Presidents were CIA agents
In 2017, as thousands of declassified files on John F. Kennedy were made public, journalist Raymundo Riva Palacio found out that three former Mexican presidents - Adolfo Lopez Mateos (1958-1964), Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (1964-1970) and Luis Echeverria (1970-1976) - were unpaid agents for the U.S. government,[3] leading to the assumptions that these three might not be the only ones.
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author |
|---|---|---|
| George Carlin | “It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do something' different. And of course, this country is founded on the double standard, that's our history! We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free. Am I right? A group of slave owners who wanted to be free! So they killed a lot of white English people, in order to continue owning their black African people, so they could wipe out of the rest of the red Indian people, so they move west and steal the rest of the land from the brown Mexican people, giving them a place to take off and drop their nuclear weapons on the yellow Japanese people. You know what the motto of this country ought to be? "You give us a color, we'll wipe it out!"” | George Carlin |
Ambassadors to Mexico
| Nation state | Start | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Ambassador to Mexico | ||
| US/Ambassador to Mexico | 1 June 1825 |
Events
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| 2001 Mexican legislative assembly attack | Two Israelis caught with false passports grenades, explosives and guns in the Mexican parliament a month after 9-11. Later released without charge. Western corporate media uninterested. |
| 2006 Mexico DC-9 drug bust | A DC-9 made an emergency landing and was found to be containing over 5 tonnes of cocaine. The pilot "disappeared", unnamed, and the plane was deregistered and sold within days to an unknown customer in Venezuela. |
| 2007 Yucatan Gulfstream drug crash | A plane used by the CIA for rendition, which later crashed in Mexico, with tons of cocaine aboard. |
| National Level Exercise 2009 (NLE09) | NLE09 was a White House-directed, Congressionally-mandated large scale "terrorism" prevention and preparedness exercise. Held July 2009 |
Groups Headquartered Here
| A Group Headquartered Here | Description |
|---|---|
| Bank of Mexico | |
| Juarez cartel | |
| Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology | Is considered one of Mexico's (neoliberal) think tanks and has the highest rank of admission to the Mexican Foreign Service |
Citizens of Mexico on Wikispooks
| Title | Born | Died | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agustín Carstens | 9 June 1958 | BIS General Manager | |
| Joaquin Flores | |||
| Vicente Fox | |||
| Francisco Ortiz Franco | 1954 | 22 June 2004 | Mexican journalist assassinated within months of starting to write about drug trafficking. |
| Jorge Díaz Serrano | 6 February 1921 | 25 April 2011 | |
| Sayak Valencia | 1980 |
