35 Burst results for "Mexican"
The Trish Regan Show
New Zombie Drugs--Made From Chinese Fentynal--Threaten Our Nation
"Getting to the news today, the head of the DEA is elaborating. On the drug trafficking triangle, aimed at America. China is making the raw materials, the ingredients for fentanyl. It is sending these ingredients to Mexico, and that is where the jalisco and Sinaloa cartels to massive and violent Mexican drug cartel operations, that is who gets it in traffic into the United States right across our very open southern border to eventually kill thousands of Americans tens of thousands of Americans and you know what? They're making a ton of money doing this. You hear what I'm saying. This is a massive business. China is sending this massive amount of fentanyl into our country and we are allowing it. We have not prepared to fight back. It's something that even the director of intelligence, Avril Haines, now admits, listen to her here when she's asked about whether or not we're really going to be able to get control of this fentanyl crisis. For myself in terms of the ode and I, our office of director of national intelligence, we have a national intelligence manager that covers this issue and a national intelligence officer. And one of the things I've learned in the two years that I've been there is that we do not have as deep a bench of analysts on these issues and we are not as therefore resourced as we need to be in order to really address this question. That's something that we've been building and that's something that we need to continue to build. So our government was caught by surprise, she was caught by surprise. Nobody realized what was really going on. Listen, I'll tell you a history repeats itself in the Chinese. They don't forget.
AP News Radio
Prosecutor: Some of the 6 missing women in Mexico found dead
"Mexican authorities say some of the 6 women reported missing early this month had been found dead. A prosecutor says there is evidence that some of the 6 women who went missing on March 7th had been found dead, Carlos samori had prosecuted the violence plagued wana watto state, said signs have been found that some of them were killed. The women who may have been traveling together disappeared on the outskirts of the city of celaya, authorities posted search bulletins for the 6 women on March 9th, for years the industrial and farming hub of wada watto has been Mexico's most violent state with a jalisco cartel, waging a turf war against local gangs
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Mexican Cartel Claims 'Mistaken Identity' Over Kidnapped Americans
"I'm back with Debbie. We're talking actually about the kidnap and murder of two Americans in Mexico Debbie was laying the context for it. And you made the point that in the David Hartley case, but also in the new case, the current case, they invoke mistaken identity. Now, what I find strange about this is that you got four black guys from was it South Carolina in American vehicle. They didn't rent this car in Mexico. They're driving their own car apparently with the U.S. U.S. license plates. So is it reasonable to say that there were mistakes? Well, according to the Mexican authorities, they thought that they were Haitian drug smugglers. Which, again, doesn't make sense because what do the, what does the gulf cartel and the Los Zetas cartel or whatever? The two Mexican cartels. Yeah, what do they care about Haitian drug smugglers? I mean, it just doesn't make any sense, right? So, and again, U.S. license plates really, it wasn't around. I think that in these cases, they like to say mistaken identity because they don't want to give Americans the idea that it's unsafe to go to Mexico, that you're vulnerable if you go. So they say, oh, listen, no. The cartels are there, but they only kill each other. Once in a while, they can be they mistake somebody else from being in the cartels, and that's why they get a bullet between the eyes. But in general, there's no targeting of tourists, there's no going after foreigners. I think this is why they put other mistaken identity.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Why Do Cartels Kidnap Americans?
"I talked a couple of days ago about this very disturbing incident involving the cartels, Mexico, and the murder in Matamoros or in the modern Morris area of a couple of Americans and wounding of a third. So these are four African Americans who went down to Mexico in an American vehicle with American license plates, apparently one of them was getting some surgery, a tummy tucked something like that. And there was somehow cornered and kidnapped and chased. And then two of them killed by the cartels. And this raises all kinds of questions. It raises the questions about the border. It raises questions about the cartels. It raises questions about the security of Americans going to Mexico, which a lot of Americans do. Sometimes for casual purposes, if they live near the border, they go over to eat, and they come back, or they go on vacation or they go to get dental work done and all kinds of things. We know a guy who goes to get his dental worked out in Mexico because it's a lot cheaper. And Debbie's all over this topic and knows a lot about it. And the thing that you were telling me really struck me is that although we should talk about the latest incident, there's a kind of context. There's a background to it, and you've been tracking this stuff for at least a decade. For a long time. So back in 2010, it was actually September of 2010, a man by the name of David Hartley was skiing was jet skiing with his wife, and they were, they were jet skiing on this Lake that basically separates the United States from a merit from Mexico. And it's called falcon Lake, and they were just having a good time. I think they were taking photographs of this old church that's kind of sunk in a little bit on the side of the Mexican side. And all of a sudden, these two boats come after them, like speeding boats come after them, and when they saw that this was happening, they took off, right? And asked the chase began, they shot him in the head twice.
AP News Radio
Letter claims cartel handed over men who killed Americans
"A letter claiming to be from the Mexican drug cartel, blamed for kidnapping four Americans and killing two of them condemns the violence in a letter obtained by the AP, the scorpions faction of the gulf cartel, apologized to the people of matamoras, where the Americans were kidnapped. The Mexican woman who died in the cartel shootout and the four Americans in their families. The letter says those who were directly involved went against the cartel rules that include respecting the life and well-being of the innocent and were turned over to police. A photograph of 5 bound men face down on the pavement, accompanied the letter. Jerry Wallace, a cousin of one of the Americans kidnapped, says he does not accept any apologies. It doesn't change the suffering they went through. I'm Ed Donahue
The Officer Tatum Show
Mexico Authorities Arrest Suspects in Murders of US Nationals
"All right, so let me get to this topic here at Mexico authorities arrest the suspect in the kidnapping and murder of U.S. nationals. And, you know, just kind of listening to the story as it unfolded. It seemed like this was an accidental or not accidental, but a misdiagnosis. Or a misidentification. I'm a read this article real quick, it's Mexico authorities arrest the suspect Tuesday alleging alleged ties to the kidnapping of four Americans last weekend leaving two dead after crossing the U.S. Mexico border. Jose Guadalupe with an inn, I don't know what that means. A Mexican national in his early 20s was guarding a small wooden house outside the city where cartel members held the Americans when authorities detained him. Authorities have not confirmed if Guadalupe is involved in the cartel suspect or suspected of kidnapping the U.S. nationals. shahid, I think a shaed, woodard, and Zendaya Brown. According to official Mexican Mexico's state officials, they discovered the victims kidnapped by a gunman and they were taking and I think they were killed instantly, at least at the initial stop. So it's interesting to see this happen. It's interesting to see how we respond to this, you know, this is everyday life in Mexico in my personal opinion and some of these states where they just killing and dealing. And they have no mercy on people they'll kill you they'll kidnap you they'll do all kinds of stuff to you. You know, I was seeing articles in years ago where they had a whole bus load of kids all killed and buried in a shallow grave. I mean, a bus, a bus full of kids. School kids at a school. They killed all of them, beheaded them and put them in a grave. On the side of the road,
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Two Dead, Two Alive After Americans Kidnapped in Mexico
"Two Americans are dead, killed by the Mexican drug cartels. And this assassination, I suppose I would call it occurred in Matamoros. Matamoros is in Mexico, but it's right across from the U.S. border, it is right across from the Rio Grande valley where Debbie grew up. And in fact, we talked to me when we go down to the Rio Grande valley about the fact that, hey, you know, people used to go all the time and maybe some still do over to matamoras. They come back across the border. I think Connie, have you been a couple of times to matamoras? Not as many years, but I used to go all the way. Yeah, Debbie used to go all the time, but hasn't obviously been recently. And it's known to be kind of dangerous. In other words, it's a little different than Acapulco or Cabo. It's a rough, it's a rough neighborhood. But nevertheless, here are these four Americans traveling in Matamoros. And I actually read, I sort of smiled because evidently they were going from South Carolina to Mexico and one of them was apparently getting a tummy tuck. They were getting some blasting surgery, I guess, to reduce weight. And two of them didn't come back. And out of the two that did get back, one of them apparently got wounded. So they were chased, they were kidnapped at gunpoint, and then they were shot at two of them were killed. And one of them wounded. Now, initially, the news reports said that they were. This was a case where the drug cartels probably got it wrong. They were identified as being cartel members or cartel Stooges, this to me makes no sense. Because apparently these Americans were driving an SUV with American tags.
AP News Radio
Survivors of deadly Mexico abduction returned to US
"Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says the people responsible for the shootings would be punished, but he's upset about how the tragedy has been reported in the U.S.. Lopez Obrador has complained about the U.S. media's coverage of the missing Americans, accusing the reporting of sensationalism. He says that when Mexicans are killed, the media go quiet like mummies. Obrador adds, we really regret that this happens in our country, and that the U.S. government has every right to be upset by the violence, attorney general Merrick Garland, has put the blame for the deaths squarely on the drug cartels. The FBI has offered a $50,000 reward for the victim's return and the arrest of the abductors. I'm Charles De Ledesma
The Trish Regan Show
Two American Tourists Murdered by Mexican Cartel
"The violence at our border is escalating. We learned today that four Americans from the Carolinas were horrifically captured at the Mexican border just over Texas. Two were killed, two are thankfully still alive and they're getting medical care. They had traveled to the region for medical procedures, and this whole nightmare unfolded with disturbing video even being circulated over the Internet on the weekend. We're not showing it here. According to reports, the murders occurred in a cartel controlled area in Mexico along our border. When asked whether we might label the cartels as terror organizations, the Biden team said nope, we can't. There are too many political implications of doing that.
AP News Radio
2 Americans dead, 2 rescued after violent Mexico kidnapping
"Two Americans are dead after a shootout near Mexico's Gulf Coast, a relative says four Americans traveled from the Carolinas, so one could get a tummy tuck in a Mexican border town. The group was caught in cartel fighting Friday, all four were kidnapped. Mexican officials say two were killed, the two others found alive today. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says the U.S. is working with Mexico to learn just what happened. Attacks on U.S. citizens are unacceptable. No matter where under what circumstances they occur. At the State Department. The two survivors have since been repatriated back to the United States spokes of a dead price as efforts are underway to bring home the remains of those killed. Sagar Meghani, Washington
Mark Levin
FBI Offers $50K Reward for 4 Americans Kidnapped in Mexico
"FBI offers $50,000 reward for return of four kidnapped Americans NBC News The FBI is offering 50,000 Been kidnapped at gunpoint during an attack in Mexico I'm sure you've now seen the video over and over again on Friday We learn about this today That also led to the death of an American of a Mexican citizen a U.S. senior official tone NBC on Monday that the Americans did not cross the border for any criminal purpose For Americans drove into Matamoros in a white minivan when North Carolina plates on Friday the FBI said in a statement by tomorrow it's just south of Brownsville Texas They were literally about a mile from the border The gunman heard of the four U.S. citizens into another vehicle and fled the scene with them It's not what I saw I saw three of them were utterly unconscious and thrown into the back of that thrown into the back of the van like they'd like to like sacks of potatoes Isn't that what it looked like to you mister producer One guy they were dragon they looked unconscious and the only I only saw one conscious person U.S. ambassador to Mexico can Salazar said Monday in a statement that an innocent Mexican citizen was tragically killed Next can president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador This guy is useless said the Americans were in the country to buy medicine There are people from the United States who cross the border to buy medicines and their was a confrontation between groups that matters looked into I think it will be resolved he said It's not uncommon for Americans to cross the southern border for cheaper medication I don't recommend it
AP News Radio
4 US citizens kidnapped in Mexico border city amid shootout
"The U.S. government is working with authorities in Mexico to try to locate four Americans who are kidnapped at gunpoint, as they cross the border from Texas. The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for the return of four missing Americans who crossed into Mexico from Brownsville, Texas to buy medicine last week. Agents say their white minivan came under fire and a shootout left at least one Mexican citizen dead, all four Americans were placed into a vehicle and driven away. We're standing ready to provide all appropriate consular assistance. State Department spokesman Ned price is this is considered a dangerous area. The travel advisory for tamale state remains at level four. Do not travel. We encourage Americans to heed that heat advice. A witness in Mexico says she saw the gunman force a woman to walk to their pickup. Two other people were dragged and one was carried to the vehicle, which then drove off. I'm Jackie Quinn
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Sen. Marsha Blackburn: Biden Needs to Apologize to Rebecca Kiessling
"You had the crowd going today. What a fun day at cpac. Well, it is and as we said, our segment was human trafficking cartels and beyond the China balloon. Because you look at how the Chinese Communist Party and the Mexican cartels are in cahoots. And you look at the how this fentanyl crisis is unique to the United States and all of that fentanyl is coming out of China, Mexico, cartels, and into our community. What was your reaction yesterday when President Biden actually laughed at a woman because of the fentanyl issue and losing losing children as well? He needs to apologize to that family immediately. I thought that was in very poor taste. I thought it was almost a moment of ridicule of the sadness. And I can not imagine as a mom and a grandma. I can not imagine the trauma and heartbreak of losing both of my children. I just can't. When you look at the drug addiction in this country and the drugs coming across our border and Memphis, the crime rates are just off the charts deadliest city most dangerous city in America, what is your message to people in Tennessee about the policies of these Democrats? Well, they need to look at how the issue of the cartels and the drug trafficking human trafficking gangs. All of that fits together. And pushing these gangs into our cities and that you're driving up the crime rate. The drug dealers. You know, Todd, the thing is, when you talk to the Tennessee bureau of investigation or of any state, they will tell you. The cartel has a presence in our state. The cartel is active, in our state.
The Dan Bongino Show
Rebecca Kiessling Grills Congress for Allowing Fentanyl Through Border
"Is a really really troubling clip I'm going to play this It's hard to listen to but it is a mother Her name is Rebecca kissling She's given a really emotional and heart wrenching testimony before Congress about losing her son to fentanyl Ties to what I'm telling you about Joe Biden till hang tight It's about 30 plus seconds but I want you to listen it's tough to listen to but you should hear for yourself check this out But a 100,000 die every year and nothing's being done not enough is being done Numbers are going up not down And you talk about children being taken away from their parents They told them to take it away from me 100,000 Americans every year are having their children 200,000 because it's both parents right Are having their children taken away from them This should not be politicized It's not about race fentanyl doesn't care about race Gosh I've heard that now 20 times It's still hard to listen to I mean this kissling here is pretty clear She's not making some race political argument she lost her child To this poison fennel not a drug It's poison We just be clear on that This is just straight up poison In the matter it's used It's just a bioweapon by China and Mexican cartels It's very legitimate purposes when used in medicine That's not what any of this is being used to do This is designed to kill
The Charlie Kirk Show
Darren Beattie Reacts to the "Cartel Katie Hobbs" Story
"Okay, this is a very important topic. I'm going to do my best to navigate it with a great Darren Beatty. I'm here. Darren is with us. Great. Okay, Darren, over the weekend, there was a viral testimony that was basically an allegation against Katie Hobbs and with it the entire ruling class of Arizona. Now, whatever merits of these claims regarding Katie Hobbs connection with the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel, the reality of the cartels association is likely far worse, cooperation between certain drug cartels and U.S. agencies have been a long open sect secret. So Darren, you have this in your article walk us through it. Absolutely. And, you know, I say it's a silver lining of this whole sort of recent viral episode that the public's attention can be drawn to what is really one of the darkest aspects of our government and its associations. You know, I can't speak to the allegations related to Hobbes, my understanding is they're pretty explosive allegations, but I would like to see some evidence behind it. Given my own reporting on Rey epson things, I was particularly aggressive in debunking rumors about apps that I knew to be false because it discredited the actual scandal behind what was going on there. And so there could be something similar here. I don't know. I haven't seen evidence, so we're waiting, but as with many things, the truth is actually far darker than the rumors, the recent rumors. And the truth is there's been a long-standing association between the U.S. government and various cartels, including this, including the Sinaloa Cartel, and if people go to revolver dot news and look at the piece, it's up there right in the top 5. You can see video of a lot of fascinating testimony by some of the most celebrated and courageous narco journalists in Mexico describing in depth the nature of this relationship,
AP News Radio
Mexican president says Tesla to build plant in Mexico
"Mexico's president says Tesla has committed to building a plant in the industrial hub of Monterey in northern Mexico. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said the promise came in phone calls he had Friday and Monday with Tesla head Elon Musk. It would be Tesla's third plant outside the U.S. after Shanghai and one near Berlin, Lopez Obrador had previously ruled out such a plant in the arid northern state of nuevo Leon because he didn't want water hungry factories in a region that suffers water shortages, but he said Musk's company had offered commitments to address those concerns, including using recycled water. Tesla is expected to announce more details Wednesday along with plans for its gen three vehicle platform at
AP News Radio
US to limit asylum to migrants who pass through a 3rd nation - The Associated Press
"The Biden administration's announcing it will generally deny asylum to migrants who show up at the U.S. border without first seeking protection from a country they pass through. This measure stops short of a total ban, but it imposes severe limitations on asylum for people of any nationality except Mexican migrants who don't have to travel through a third country to reach the United States. It's almost certain to face legal challenges, then president Trump pursued a similar ban in 2019,
AP News Radio
Mexico’s ex-public security chief convicted in U.S. drug case
"Mexico's ex public security chief is convicted in a U.S. drug case. I'm Lisa dwyer. A U.S. jury has convicted a former Mexican presidential cabinet member Gennaro Garcia Luna, of taking massive bribes to protect drug cartels, he was tasked with combating. He is the highest ranking current or former Mexican official ever to be tried in the United States. Garcia Luna headed Mexico's federal police and then was its top security official from 2006 to 2012. A roster of ex smugglers and former Mexican officials testified the Garcia Luna took millions of dollars in cartel cash. He faces at least 20 years in as much as life in prison at
Key Battles of American History
"mexican" Discussed on Key Battles of American History
"Well, in common with most of the wars of the time period, disease was more deadly than enemy fire. On the American side, 7 times as many men died of illness than died of wounds received in battle, and compared to the Civil War in which the ratio was two to one, part of the Civil War was the introduction of the rifle many round, which made killing much more efficient in battle. And then the intensity of combat as well, conflict. There was much far more battles during the American Civil War than there was the Mexican war. Now in the Mexican side, the ratio was even greater due to malnutrition and lack of proper clothing that Mexican soldiers experienced. And the Americans did have a hard time, especially in the southern Mexico because there was the addition of yellow fever, which Mexicans natives of the southern Mexico provinces, states didn't have immune to because they had it as infants, basically. And Americans suffered pretty strongly from yellow fever. But they didn't have as many problems with food, like the Mexican army did. Among American forces 15% of volunteers dotted diseases while only 8% of regulars did. And this is likely because many volunteers came from small towns and hadn't developed immunity to common diseases while most of the regulars either came from big cities or they came they were immigrants you'd come over on tightly packed ships. And they developed immunity. They had also been serving in camps with other soldiers for possibly years. So most American regular soldiers probably had already had malaria, for example. And were immune to it, or they might have already had cholera or dysentery and kind of gotten an immunity to it. So, but regardless, camp conditions on both sides, which while they're not up to today's standards to clean in this and hygiene, weren't usually fairly clean by the standards of the day. And this tended to be more so again among regular troops and among volunteers. They knew how to police their camps, right? And ensure that their latrines were not near water sources, for example, whereas volunteers may not know that as well. Yeah, this is a situation where that harsh discipline that we talked about that's true in the American regular army comes in handy. Because they know how to keep a camp, the volunteers, not so much. All right, now we're going to move to one of my favorite topics uniforms. I've always been fascinated with uniforms throughout the ages. I've told you this story before Sean, but I'll share it for the sake of our listeners. When I was in college, several times I thought about joining up for one branch of the service or another. Particularly after I went to see Top Gun, but anyway, but I was talking to a friend of mine and he says, James, you do not want to join the military. You would like two things about the military. You would like the uniforms and the haircuts. That's about it. I mean, that's not the only reason I didn't end up joining up, but that might have had some influence on me. He was probably right. But I would have loved the uniforms. So uniforms at the time were made of wool as they often were throughout the 19th century, and the wool was dyed blue. The standard color for the regular army, at least, was blue. Now, the exact shape of blue and the color of the trim depended on the type of the unit and the rank of the soldier.
Key Battles of American History
"mexican" Discussed on Key Battles of American History
"All right, so that is a little bit about American volunteer units, but the Mexican army also had volunteers, and they had a unit called the National Guard, kind of similar to our National Guard, not nearly as professional, but nevertheless it was an institution that contributed to the Mexican war effort. So let's talk a little bit about those, Sean. Yes. So in 1846, when federalism was restored for the time being to Mexico, I guess for that week. Yeah. What are the first things the government did was proclaim the creation of a National Guard. This was roughly the equivalent of the American volunteer force. And like American volunteers, members of the National Guard were usually respectable Mexican citizens who came from all social classes. But they came from the upper class as well. Most were volunteers, although some men were conscripted, especially common soldiers might still get conscripted. American counterparts, the National Guard units were highly politicized and they became heavily involved in local politics. A few units even fought each other during periods of instability in February and March of 1847. So nothing like a war against another foreign power to stop you're not going to let that stop your Civil War. That's for sure. Yeah, let's have a Civil War at the same time as an invasion. You're being invaded from three different fronts. Instead, we should come together, but now we're going to fight each other. All right. Well, man a professions were deemed essential by the government and they were exhibited from services. These included, of course, priests who had were not able to serve in the military. Government employees, because you got to have bureaucrats to run things when you're switching governments every month. Doctors, although some doctors did serve in the military as in battlefield hospitals. Teachers, because most teachers actually were men at the time. And a lot of them were pretty anyway. So, and then members of the regular army, because you can't have your regular army soldiers officers leaving to form your own National Guard unit. Sailors, mine workers, and domestic servants, because don't let your butler go fight in the National Guard. It also exhibited the very poorest society. We only want the very best people in the National Guard. Yeah, the poorest, they belong to the regular army. They belong in the regular army, yes, exactly. Now, one thing that was in common with the regular army in the National Guard was that pay was infrequent. And many deserted, mainly again, just so they could feed their families. It's like Sean said earlier. If you're out there no matter what the punishment is, no matter what paper you signed or how you were forced to be in, of course, these are volunteers. But regardless, if you're starving and your family is starving, you're going to get out of there. You're going to do what you can to take care of your family. National Guard units were organized by the states and state governors were often reluctant to release them for national service, particularly when American armies are native raiding party screwed near. So, you know, it's one thing to raise a large unit from, say, that could take us, you may have raised 5000 guys. But if you only release a thousand or 500 that doesn't do the national war effort very much. But I can understand these governors because if you think about it, Sean, if you are told, well, you need to send 5000 people down here to this other city to campaign with the regular army, but you see the blue coats coming your way or you see the Comanche coming your way because let's not forget.
Key Battles of American History
"mexican" Discussed on Key Battles of American History
"So there is a particular unit that is distinct to this conflict that we didn't really talk about. They're a little different than the regular volunteers that served that were raised by in the United States to come into the fight. Texans volunteered in very large numbers to serve in the military servant volunteer units in the fight because they had been fighting Mexico for ten years and they wanted to keep doing so. And especially the one of the key units that was raised was the Texas Rangers. And so the Texas Rangers were sort of quasi military force that was the law enforcement and border peacekeeping force that generally were arrayed in Texas ranged in Texas against the Comanche and the Native American tribes on the plains, but also against Mexican border incursions. And so Texas Rangers in large numbers volunteered. They were particularly raised into a mounted regiment by captain Samuel walker, who was a Texas ranger, and he's the person he went to colt firearms and had been designed at gigantically powerful pistol and was able to secure about a thousand of them to be made to be given to his to each to his not a ranger regiment and of those 500 or so were went down with Scott down into Mexico and the other portion of the regiment went with Taylor stayed with Taylor. They had fought in Monterey and in Palo Alto and were part of the Buena Vista fight. And this is what general Ethan Allen Hitchcock wrote as they were fighting in Mexico City. Hayes rangers had come and their appearance was never to be forgotten, not in any sort of uniform, but well mounted and doubly well armed. So the Mexicans actually called the Texas Rangers lost diablos tejanos and they were called Hayes rangers because walker was killed in the fighting in Mexico and Jack Hayes, it was another range of captain and he became the leader of the regiment. They were especially noted for they didn't have uniforms. They had excellent horses, they were usually armed to the teeth with rifles shotguns, single shot pistols, and of course 6 shooter gigantic 6 shooter pistols revolvers that they carried. And there's a caricature that was done, I believe, by a New York or east coast newspaper of a Texas ranger and it looks like the Tasmanian devil with the cowboy with some rare on sitting on a horse, just a fiercely hairy beast of a person. But one of the tasks that they were given by Scott was to protect the column as they advanced in Mexico against irregular forces. And they did so with great Gusto and they did so in the way that they basically fought fire with fire and they would go into villages and just round everybody up and shoot them. And unfortunately, you know, when you read about what they did, it reads today like some pretty fierce atrocities. That they committed against Mexican civilians. But from their perspective, they were fighting a war that they've been fighting for a decade. And this was time to get some payback for things like beer and the Alamo still. Yeah, they had a long memory, didn't they? They had very long memories. And they had not much patience. You know, they were a fearsome unit that's for sure.
Key Battles of American History
"mexican" Discussed on Key Battles of American History
"You might not want to buck in gags. Imagine that didn't get used a lot of volunteers. No. No. And, you know, Americans in especially Texans as we've seen are blessed with an overabundance of democracy. And so guardiana wrote that the undisciplined behavior of Mexican war volunteers was notorious. It was difficult to teach volunteers the complicated maneuvers and steadiness under fire that were central to tactics in the right age of unrivaled muskets. This is the line of fire that you traditionally see in this time. Volunteers were also quite accident prone and many were killed or wounded in firearms accidents or if you're in the fire instance in which men mistook comrades for the enemy. More seriously, again, here's that overabundance of democracy and self worth of volunteers are notorious for directly refusing to orders that displays them, such as orders to stay in the camp or columns, stay in columns on the march, then guard, drill, or orders to work. I'm not going to do that. I have volunteered to serve. I have volunteered to fight. That's what I'm here for. Or to clean up poop, or to run in a circle. Yeah, I didn't volunteer to dig any ditches and to dig any trenches. I came here to fight. That was probably the most common refrain that went out. Yeah, buddy. What's unfortunate, though, as is true in any war, about 90% of the time, you're not fighting. What's this saying long, long periods of boredom, punctuated by brief moments of terror. Yeah. So, but despite this lack of discipline and despite kind of the attitude that volunteers had, their desertion rate was much lower than that of regular army soldiers. In fact, desertion among volunteers during the Mexican-American War was only about 6% compared to 13% for regulators. And that makes sense because they were there because they wanted to be there, right? They volunteered. They signed up for this. Whereas the regular army people, okay, yeah, technically they signed up, and nobody was conscripted, but at the same time, that wasn't really what they would like to do if they had enough money. They just went into the military as we said because they were trying to avoid starvation. So yeah, that's interesting. Volunteers had a much like half the desertion rate as regulars. Now, here's another habit volunteers had and there were notorious for stealing, not just from Mexicans, but also from other Americans. Sometimes especially when they had been drinking, they stole from Mexican homes, destroyed Mexican property, desecrated Catholic churches, beet and or even killed Mexican civilians and raped Mexican women. While at war, volunteers committed acts at most, never would have even considered back home. Regular army commanders, including generals Taylor and Scott condemned these kinds of acts and tried to reign them in, but they could do little to stop them. They could never completely wipe them out. And the American volunteers just had a horrible reputation, especially among the Mexican civilians. But despite their many flaws, volunteer units were essential to the American war effort without them, the Americans could not have defeated the Mexican army. So warts and all, they were essential to the American war effort. There's one particular do you want to go ahead and talk about your favorite volunteer unit?
Key Battles of American History
"mexican" Discussed on Key Battles of American History
"Sometimes children even join them. We talked about that before in some of our previous discussions of battles, how the Mexican army would often travel these long distances across the desert and they didn't just have the army to feed, but they had hundreds, if not thousands of these sold the data. And the children can't followers. Yeah, they would. Yeah, they were just trying to stay alive. It was spouses and families of soldiers as well as settlers and traders. Folks who would sell things to the soldiers and then of course other women who were involved in some way with the soldiers as well. And this was not uncommon. This was not unique to Mexico. This was very common with a lot of armies in the world at the time. I was camp followers, definitely. I mean, you even had those in the Continental Army. They would often do the washing and the Motley picture. Molly pitcher was a real person. She didn't just show up for a battle. She was there in the army in the camp when the battle happened. Monmouth. Good old Molly, I'm glad. O'Malley pitcher. Yeah. Well, as with American soldiers, desserts are naturally was quite common among Mexican regulars. More often than not, was motivated by hunger, you know? If food and pay is irregular and you are forced to be a soldier, then there's food somewhere, then you're going to probably leave to go for it. Now, despite the rough character of many recruits and the poor treatment, they received, they were considered quite well trained and disciplined, and they fought very bravely. We talked about that extensively in our series on the tech revolution earlier and then also the last few episodes we've talked about the fighting in Monterey and then when it was. So as Gardena writes, their ability to quickly march long distances with little food and water astonished observers, especially when they went directly into battle afterwards. Officers in the Mexican army were usually tied to one another, the political faction, so they were either centralists or federalists or centralist federalist or sent to in general. 7 graduated from Mexico's military academy, but most obtained their positions through political or family connections. Quite a few officers began their career as enlisted men and they moved up through the ranks. So this was, this is actually something that could quite easily happen in the Mexican army, not very common at all in the American military. Except during times of war. So maybe there were some enlisted men in the war of 1812 or maybe in the Blackhawk fighting or the Seminole fighting that might have gotten a battlefield commission for example and worked their way up that way.
Key Battles of American History
"mexican" Discussed on Key Battles of American History
"It's an overview of life as an American regular soldier. So what about the regular soldiers in the Mexican army, Sean? Yeah, well, the overwhelming majority of Mexican regular army soldiers come from very poor families since most Mexican families are four, right? Then they're peasants. Now, unlike the American counterparts, few Mexican soldiers volunteered for service, the reason for this was by contrast with the U.S. Army food and pay distribution was irregular. This Gardena writes few volunteered to be constantly hungry, so instead the Mexican military drafted men enlisting them for 6 year terms. And, of course, because this is Mexico and things just go the way they go, central government of Mexico, delegated the recruiting of men to the states. And they were given quotas that they had to fulfill. Well, since they were often unable to fulfill quotas that were instilled upon them by the Mexico City, by the central government, they delegated recruitment to local governments, mandating their own quotas. And local recruiters usually filled their quotas by conscripting deserters, criminals, gamblers, drunks, womanizers, and political opponents. In short, most of the recruits came from the ranks of what one official called the most damaging to the population. And I should add the vast majority of the common soldier in Mexico was either a mestizo, which was a mix of Native American indigenous but and Spanish descent or straight on what they called indios. Or indigenous person. Maya's an Aztec. This and that. So disproportionately, the very poorest part of Mexican society was mestizos in India's and therefore disproportionately they were going to be forced to be drafted into the military. Yeah, it's interesting how the central government and then the states just kind of pass the buck down to the next level. You know, you guys, you all come up with the soldiers. We can't do it. And this was the case when the government was a federalist government where the delegation was fast in the states. Or a centralist government where the central government controlled things. That particular element was definitely passed down to the lowest levels. Yeah. Nobody wanted to deal with it. No. Well, anyway, as guardiano writes, quote by the 1840s, being chosen for regular army service became a mark of dishonor. One local election official wrote,
The Autosport Podcast
"mexican" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"That is really underestimated about max, like we talk about his amazing overtakes and how aggressive he can be and how sort of how well he dominates races. But his time management as well is so underrated. Now it's something I put Christian Horner after the race. It's a do you think that's kind of a missed part of his skill set that people don't quite realize how good he is. And he agrees he said, yeah, he said that if you could hear what he was doing in the car in terms of using all the different tools and stuff on the steering wheel to really manage his tires and every lap going back and forth with his race engineer GP and giving that feedback. Yeah, you're completely right God is you're kidding yourself if you think that in a time management race against Max Verstappen, you're going to win. I want to talk a little bit about what it's been like with Red Bull this weekend guys. You've both been in the paddock at various points. Sometimes the pen with all the other journalists sometimes you get to do the kind of written press conferences, which are a different vibe to the broadcast media. Obviously, we've had all of the Red Bull FIA fallout from their punishment for the cost cap. Luke, what's it been like around the Red Bull drivers around Christian this weekend? You mentioned on yesterday's podcast. You and Alex went for some barbecue, even though you vegetarian, but you said it still looked good. Last weekend, and you bumped into Max Verstappen, chilling out in a barbecue joint in Austin. What's the vibe been like around Red Bull since you've got to Mexico? Have they been cooperative with you? What's happening with the TV coverage as well? Because we haven't seen much of Red Bull on the telly. Yeah, it's been Christian Horner said it had been an emotional two weeks Red Bull and I think that's a very good way to summon up. Let's put it back to us and obviously the sad news about the maths shit's Red Bull founder passing away at the age of 78 on the Saturday and then obviously on the Sunday they had the high of winning the constructors championship and Verstappen getting that 13th win of the season. We come into this week. We had the FIA's ruling about the budget cap and the $7 million fine and the Tencent aerodynamic testing restriction for the next 12 months against Red Bull. We had a Christian Horner hold a press conference on Friday to talk about that. He called it a draconian penalty and outlined why Red Bull had basically been found to be in breach and the various exclusions and stuff that weren't fully considered. And then, yeah, we come into race day and there was the news overnight that Max Verstappen and Red Bull were boycotting Sky Sports F one's coverage because of comments made over the Austin weekend by one of skies reporters. And it's been a very up and down weekend and I must say, though, that the team has remained in really good spirits. Christian Horner was on very good form in the press conference. Sorry, the press briefing with us came and sat down and the first question was about sky, and he said, they want to talk about the race though. Like, come on, let's talk about that first. So we talked about the race and then we'd gone to sky and yeah, they ultimately they outlines max and talked about it in the press conference. He said that he was unhappy with the constant disrespect that he's faced and he said, you get to a point where it's just too much and you can't tolerate it anymore. The boycott has been against all of skies three main regionals, which is the UK, Germany, and Italy. They still carried some interviews with max after the race, but that was supplied by F one to sky as they do with all the broadcasters all over the world. And Christian horny talked about it and he said that ultimately they felt that an impartiality that needs to be had in journalism and in broadcasting and it's very, very true. And I think it's very important, I think, and for all the talk of British bias and things like that, you see put across social media and whatever. Ultimately, there does need to be sort of an understanding of, yeah, you've got to be impartial. The day that you're backing one driver over another, whatever, then that is, that does dangerous territory to be on as a journalist. And I think that ultimately the wording that the reporter used, he did not say at any point the Max Verstappen robbed Lewis Hamilton of the title or Red Bull robbed Hamilton of the title. But I still think that it maybe could have been worded a bit more delicately. And I think that the word robbed ultimately, that's a very loaded word. So yeah, I think Red Bull, they said, look, we want to make a point. What to make a stand and say that we're not going to accept that. Horner said that he thought Red Bull had become a bit of a cheap target for people and ultimately they want to be judged on what they do on track. And I think that yeah, it's not the first time that max is sort of made a bit of a stand like this with Netflix at the beginning of the year. He said, I'm not going to do any more interviews because you over sensationalized stuff. And max said, I'm a very down to earth guy. I'm a very real guy. Again, we bumped into him in a barbecue joint in Austin like any other person. And that was like, it was quite nice, just saying, oh, it's a two time world champion, just hanging out, having some barbecue. I don't know if he had a beer or not or whatever, but yeah, it's still like, and I get that. And I think that ultimately there's a fine line to be traded between the teams do want to give us access and everything. And they really have done that. I did an interview down this morning at a Red Bull with one of their chief engineers, and it was a good chat. And talking to the PI, he was like, yeah, we understand you guys, and we trust you guys and everything like that. And it's like that's nice to hear. And ultimately, I think the team for everything. They've been very understanding with us and they've been very open. Yeah, I think that it's been a tricky couple of weeks for them. I think the FIA ruling against them was, I think, yeah, that's going to be talked about for a long time. I think Christine Horner's explanation of some of it maybe didn't quite hold up in the way that it completely could have. I think he was in that press conference as well. And I could hear him sort of making a comment or two here or there. But on repeatable on the repeating podcast and of course, some of the reasoning, it was a bit like, nah, it doesn't really add up to be honest, but yeah, ultimately, they've come away with another win and Red Bull are right now. I think we're probably witnessing the most dominant single season by a Formula One driver. Maybe in the history of the sport. There is an impressive to watch. What's been your reading of kind of Red Bull of almost come out, fighting, haven't they? It reminds me a little bit of trying to think of other examples, a bit like when Mourinho was dominating at Chelsea. And he kind of had this war room mentality where he closed down and everyone else was the enemy. Now, in Formula One, which is a cauldron anyway, you can't escape that because everyone's on top of each other. So it is a little bit gladiatorial at times. But it seems like rather than be sheepish or hold a head down Red Bull, which does seem to be their natural kind of style anyway.
The Autosport Podcast
"mexican" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Max Verstappen beat Lewis Hamilton in what wasn't a spectacular Mexican Formula One Grand Prix after Mercedes tyre strategy against Red Bull, well it didn't exactly pay off. Max Verstappen aced the start and unlike last year where we saw brilliant move down to the first corner. The longest run down to the first corner of the season. It became clear once max was often away that that was going to be pretty much the finishing order as we got towards the end of the race. There was some drama from Daniel Ricciardo Czech script absolutely what a stunning race he had at home hero Sergio Pérez would come home third ahead of George Russell, there were some penalties in there for Ricciardo and gasly, which did spice things up a little bit a couple of retirements, but otherwise not a spectacular race on a Sunday afternoon. That would have been one back in the old days that the dad would have watched fallen asleep to woken up for the last lap and pretend that he wasn't napping at all. But I always thoroughly enjoy watching a Formula One race wherever it may be, and evening one for us in the UK and we sent Luke Smith and Stuart coddling to go and check things out good evening gentlemen, how is your Mexican accommodation? I would describe it as highly convivial. That's become cod as his favorite catch phrase on this trip, I think. And actually something that we didn't mention on last week's podcast, even though I saw one of us tweet about it, is that one of the three of us is a newly published author with a new book out. You've written many books over the years. Is it you? It's not me. I have to say, welcome to the club to my colleague. That would be Luke Smith, who's written the story of Porsche, a tribute to the legendary manufacturer, which I have here in front of. Oh, you got a coffee. Oh, mate. It's a very, very good book if you like things like cars. Thank you. It's a fantastic read in terms of the story of one of the great names in automotive that has recently listed obviously with the IPO. That's a big deal if you're into your cars out of the ashes, the birth of a legend, king of the track, the return to LeMond, electric dreams. It comes right back up to date. My friend, this is a fantastic read. I'm only halfway through. And do you know what delighted me about that book was the reference to the classic philosophy and Giorgio moroder or electric dreams? You're very welcome. I started with the last chapter, because I was like, oh 'cause I'm like, I'm into my electric stuff, as you know, I drive an electric car. The same as our boss. And then I went back at the beginning and read it. So there we go. Viewers deal listeners. You can't see me holding it up, but it's on Amazon and all places that you would buy books. Amazon think anyone that anyone uses anymore. Local book shops, local bookshops, local book shops, support your independent. I'm consigned to these four walls these days, so yes, if you do go out into the real world, go to a real bookshop. There's a waterstone around the corner from our office in sunny Richmond. So you could always go to somewhere like that or your independent bookstore. Please do so. If you live in southwest London, do visit the Q bookshop which is not named after Matt Q, but after the Q, the district in southwest London owned by some friends of mine. And go buy the story of Porsche unofficial and unauthorized, and a very handy size it is as well, thoroughly enjoying that. Let's get into the Formula One this weekend. Chaps, look, you know, not not a stellar one. I think a lot of hopes were riding on a couple of things. The start was there going to be chaos. And also the tire strategy, which is in that first third of the race, max got away in the lead, but we are thinking, okay, so Lewis is keeping it to one and a half, two seconds. Maybe a little bit more at times, but towards the end of that first stint, max's tyres were going off and we were thinking, is this going to come alive? It didn't quite a lukewarm. We'll start with you because you've been on your travels. Austin now and now Mexico. Was it worth staying out for Mexico to go and talk to watch this one in person? I'd always. I always, it's always a pleasure covering this job and we're very, very privileged to do this wonderful job and yeah, there's a lot of you sometimes do get a bit homesick and things like that but ultimately yeah, like standing on the grid stay that was incredible. The noise everyone's making for checo, it really just rams home, just how special this sport is, how many fans around the world would love to be sort of doing what we do and following this amazing amazing circus all over the world. So yeah, always worth staying out for, but yeah, not the most lively race, as you say. I think it was, it looked like it was going to be maybe a bit of a slow burner, and I know in the first 20 laps or so, I was sort of making notes. And I was like, okay, well, we've not really had any overtake so far. And hopefully the strategies all come together. And then, yeah, I found myself about lap lap 30 40 or so sort of responding to some Friends on what's happening. Just said to me that the snoozing emoji and things like that and I quickly updated my fancy NFL team as well when I got a quick second during a slight lull, but yeah, it was a race that I think we thought would come alive. It didn't in the end, but I think it definitely had lots of lots of interesting sort of nuances, lots of reasons why it didn't turn into the race that we maybe wanted, which I know our colleague Alex kalina will be going into good detail in and this week's issue of auto sport. So yeah, I think there's plenty still to talk about as always. And I think that had the strategy is maybe play that a little bit differently. It could have been a more exciting race, but hey, you can't win them all. No, absolutely. And overall the course of a season, a very, very long season. I was going to say Carter's not one for the record books, but it was one for the record books as Max Verstappen wins 14 races in a season. That is ahead of Schumacher and Vettel in 2004 and 13, respectively, Hamilton winning 11 in 2014, and Mansell in 1992 with 9 races and so periods of dominance. So he was one for the record books, and actually it doesn't feel like a season, like a snooze fest season. There's been lots going. It doesn't seem like max has absolutely dominated been winning by a minute at every race. And so when you see that record, I thought, okay, well, I know it makes sense, but it doesn't feel like it's been one of those periods of dominance, but hey we could be heading into that, by the way, depending on how Ferrari respond, but we'll get into that. What was your thoughts caught us on on that start? And then how it played out.
ESPN FC
"mexican" Discussed on ESPN FC
"Here on ESPN+ on this wonderful Thursday, alongside my good man, Hercules Gomez, I'm Sebastian Salazar, epi saw the one 45 hertz. We are chugging along to one 50. One 45, look at that. Not canceled yet. I'll take it. That should be the hashtag of this show. Hashtag not canceled yet. Hopefully we don't get canceled in our next couple of shows because we got some big ones. BIG ones coming up. Spoilers at least just not yet. Today's a big show. We got an interview coming up in just a few minutes with the president of U.S. soccer. Cindy parlo cone. She's going to join us to talk about all things under the federation's watch. We've also got the roster for the MLS all star team going to face off against Liga mekis on August 10th, which of course means we're going to have a fight over who got snubbed, right? Who got left off the list? And we also have a keen eye on what's happening down in Mexico right now, the U.S. women's national team playing against Costa Rica in the semifinals of the Concacaf W championship. But we have to start this show with the existential crisis, my man that is threatening to swallow all of Mexican soccer on Wednesday, FMF, the Mexican federation, announcing that gerardo torrado had been fired as general sporting director a role that the three time World Cup participant had held since around 2017 also out. Ignacio yero, director of the national teams. Also out Luis Perez under 20 coach. We failed to qualify for the U 20 World Cup and Olympics. Monica Vergara, the women's national team coach, her fate still to be decided. As for why, let's hear from the president.
Fresh Air
"mexican" Discussed on Fresh Air
"To land and survival. And I would argue that by remembering the story of the magazine and of these early labor migrants who came to the United States and in participated in early a radical revolution, that it helps us to remember recall to understand the radical possibilities of Mexican American politics today. At a moment in which we're talking so much about the rise of conservatism and the so called Hispanic Republican. There's also a legacy of progressivism of radicalism among Mexican immigrant communities and the magonistas are certainly at the center of all that. One really interesting through line in your work is that you're going so far as to say that the United States created mass migration from Mexico to the United States. So in the 19th century, the Mexican population was not a migrant population, certainly not internationally. It is the arrival of U.S. investors with the railroads in particular, but also the mining operations and others that buy a plan and dispossess folks and create a landless wandering population. That create the conditions for Mexican labor migration to begin. And it's not random U.S. labor recruiters go down into Mexico and encourage Mexican immigrants to come north to work in the United States. Now we have to step back and understand this within the larger context. Mexican immigrants are being invited to become really the primary labor force across the American West. Only after the practices and the campaigns of genocide targeting indigenous populations across the American West. Only because white settlers in the American West are absolutely opposed to any idea of free black migration into the American West. And only after the United States has begun to develop a set of immigration rules and laws that prohibit Chinese immigrants and others from entering the country. It's at that moment in the early 20th century that white settlers in the west say that we don't have no access to labor in particular, marginalized, cheap labor. And so Mexico becomes understood as the only source of that labor to develop all of the emerging industries in the American West, whether it be the railroads or the farms, or the ranches, and mining. And there's a real anxiety about making sure there are open access to Mexican immigrant laborers. So in the early 20th century, when Mexican emigrants would show up at the U.S. Mexico border, U.S. immigration guards would hardly look their way. Maybe give them a nod as they cross the border. At that moment, immigration guards were largely looking for Chinese immigrants. And Mexicans were given largely a free pass to enter into the country. It is not until the establishment really of the U.S. border patrol in 1924 that you have a regular set of practices organized around at least regulating Mexican immigration to the United States. Right, you actually highlight a point in your book about Chinese immigrants and just to really lay down this example that many Chinese immigrants would pretend to be Mexican in order to enter the United States. My colleague Erica Lee has written about this that Chinese immigrants who were seeking entrance to the United States would first come through Mexico. Learn a couple of words in Spanish, namely yo soy mexicano. I am Mexican. And try to so called dress as a Mexican and look as Mexican as possible to cross the border because Mexicans were given a free pass, whereas Chinese immigrants were categorically prohibited for entering the United States by the early 20th century. We're listening to the interview, our guest interviewer Tanya Mosley recorded with Kelly lytle Hernandez. Her new book is called bad Mexicans, race, empire, and revolution in the borderlands. We'll hear more of the interview after a break, I'm Terry gross, and this is fresh air. Support for NPR comes from the fresh air archive, explore and find your favorite fresh air interviews from a catalog of over 22,000 segments. It's the home to a living history of the American experience, as shared by voices that shape our world, featuring presidents like Bill Clinton to entertainers like Aretha Franklin to poets like Maya Angelou, 40 years of intimate interviews with award winning host Terry gross. Find your favorites at fresh air archive dot org. Let's get back to the interview, our guest interviewer Tanya Mosley recorded with Kelly lytle Hernandez. She's a Professor of history, African American studies and urban planning at UCLA, and a Macarthur fellow, her new book, bad Mexicans, race, empire, and revolution in the borderlands, as about the rebels who helped ignite the 1910 Mexican revolution, and how the revolution changed Mexico and reshaped American immigration at the border. WEB Dubois was a scholar during this time and spoke about how Anglo Americans as he put it. Had cast a global color line encircling the lives of Mexicans on both sides of the border, and you write that black Americans actually watch the Mexican revolution closely, what details can you tell us about the relationship between black Americans, Mexicans and Mexican Americans during that time? Right, so one of the Dubois many important interventions was to highlight that white supremacy is global. It's not just located in the United States. And so he was a thinker at the moment who may have thought about what was happening in Mexico as the global color line. And I write about the ways in which African Americans are watching what's happening in Mexico. As being grounded in a longer history, that during the period of enslavement, we had several options to free ourselves. One of them that we've talked a lot about in U.S. history is by looking north to get north with the mason Dixon line. We had another option too. After the 1820s, when Mexico abolished slavery, those of us who were living in slave closer to Mexico are closest path and route to freedom, was to get to Mexico. And so we've had a long relationship with Mexico and trying to build our freedom dreams with Mexicans. The Mexican revolution is another part of that story that the magonistas were clearly anti capitalists. And in many ways, articulated antiracist position as well. Advocating for indigenous communities. And others. And so African Americans are watching very closely what's happening in Mexico about what might be possible for black life in Mexico if the revolution succeeds. Now remember, the moment when the vice of Jim Crow is growing ever tighter around black life in the early 20th century. And a scholar Gerald horn has written quite a bit about this. And so in the story of the magonistas, you see moments here and there where African Americans play quiet but pivotal roles. When Ricardo Flores magon needs a hideout in Los Angeles, he's able to rent that hideout from an African American real estate agent at the edge of town. So it's a black real estate agent who offers him sanctuary here in Los Angeles. When the magonistas occupy Baja California in the early months of the Mexican revolution. African American soldiers go down to Baja California to participate in this occupation with the freedom dream being that if the win, we can leave the United States and.
Fresh Air
"mexican" Discussed on Fresh Air
"This is fresh air. I'm Terry gross. Not many Americans know much about the Mexican revolution of 1910. The impact of that revolution on the U.S. is the subject of the new book bad Mexicans by our guest historian Kelly lytle Hernandez. She spoke with our guest interviewer Tanya Mosley, host of the podcast, truth be told. Here's Tanya with more. You can not understand U.S. history without Mexico and Mexicans. Says Kelly lytle Hernandez, and her new book bad Mexicans, race empire and revolution in the borderlands. The book tells the true story of rebels who from inside of the United States launched the Mexican revolution of 1910. The rebels were known as manganese. They were journalists, migrant workers, and miners who organized thousands of Mexican workers and American dissidents to overthrow a 30 year dictatorship. Writer Kelly lytle Hernandez is often called a rebel historian for her work, which takes a deeper look at historical moments from the vantage point of the marginalized. Her first book, a history of the U.S. border patrol, was about Mexican immigration to the United States. Hernandez was awarded the Clement's prize for it in 2010. Her second book, city of inmates, is about the history of incarceration in Los Angeles and won the 2018 American book award. Lytle Hernandez currently directs the $1 million hoods project, which uses Los Angeles Police data to determine the cost of policing and incarceration. Light on Hernandez is a Professor of history, African American studies, and urban planning at UCLA. In 2019, she also received Macarthur fellowship. Kelly lytle Hernandez, welcome to fresh air. Thank you for having me on. Kelly, it was when former president Donald Trump used that phrase bad hombres that you said to yourself, I've got to write this book. I have to tell this story now. What was it that made you feel that urgency? So when president Trump used that rhetoric of deriding disparaging characterizing Mexican immigrants a so called bad ombre is one I knew that he was denigrating the efforts of many people to improve the conditions of their life through migration. But he was also stirring a very dangerous pot of rhetoric that has been used against Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans for more than a century. And at the heart of this story is this concept that a good Mexican is a Mexican who comes to the United States and is docile and is quiet and works and does not protest against inequity. That's a so called good Mexican in the early 20th century, at least here in the United States. And people who are being disparaged at that time as bad Mexicans in the United States were those who organized those who protested against the conditions of what was then known as Juan crow similar form of social marginalization as Jim Crow. And also in Mexico, this dictator was disparaging. The so called malos mexicanos are bad Mexicans for challenging his regime. So president Trump was Tapping in to all of this history and rhetoric when he was calling Mexican migrants bad hombres. And I wanted to make clear, make plane make present. What he was playing with with that rhetoric. And the problem here is that the United States very few people have much knowledge about Mexican American history. And so he was able to use that language disconnected, unmoored from an understanding of everything that it was Tapping into. This story, this particular story of the Mexican revolution, it's so well known in Mexico that the government they are declared this year 2022 the year of Ricardo Flores magon, who is a major player in the revolution in a major focal point in your book. And yet most of us here in the United States have never heard of Meghan and know very little about the Mexican revolution. Who was he? So Ricardo Flores magon was a journalist in Mexico City in the early 20th century. And he and his brother ran a newspaper called regeneration. And on the pages of heran acion, they criticized the dictator in Mexico, a man named portfolio Diaz. And they criticized him on multiple points, but in particular that portfolio Diaz had accumulated all power and his office and held the presidency for more than 20 years. He was a dictator. They called him authoritarian and despotic on the pages around. But they also challenged him on his economic policies, because porfirio Diaz had opened up the doors of Mexico to international investors, namely Europeans and Anglo Americans, allowing them to buy up large swaths of land and come to dominate key industries, Anglo Americans dominated railroads, mining, and more. And they challenged before for your Diaz for, as I said, making Mexicans the quote servants of foreigners. And for those critiques on the pages of her national, porfirio Diaz had them arrested multiple times sent to prison, smashed their printing presses and actually issued a gag order prohibiting any newspaper in Mexico from publishing their articles. And so they were rebel journalists who by 1904 were forced to flee Mexico and come to the United States where they rebuilt their movement against porfirio Diaz and helped incite the outbreak of the 1910 Mexican revolution. In what ways did Diaz help foreigners help the U.S. specifically see Mexico in an enticing light to take on this land ownership in this way? Well, once the United States completed the transcontinental railroad in 1876, there were many major U.S. investors who started to look about to say, what's next? And they looked south and they saw that a infamous military general had just taken the reins of power of the presidency in Mexico. This is porfirio Diaz. And profia Diaz begins to invite them down to Mexico and offer up wide swaths of land to people to come down and to build those railroads and to modernize the Mexican economy. And he gave them all kinds of kickbacks and tax incentives to do all of this. And so many Anglo Americans small investors and large investors, the rockefellers, the Guggenheim, the tahini and others, became major investors in Mexico. And they either made their millions there, or they multiply it their millions there. These relationships that Diaz formed with U.S. industry and government came at the cost of his own people, did you learn during writing this book what some of.
The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"mexican" Discussed on The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times
"1930s when it was first planted. The New Yorker, way over on the east coast, sort of crowned this new thing as the future of eating. And there was probably always, you know, some restaurants or some level of interest in Mexican food in California and the southwestern as you well know. But the whole thing really kind of took off incidentally, along with major kind of pop cultural events, like the Super Bowl, and more awareness and understanding of Mexican products, Mexican eating, Mexican natural foods, with the influx of immigrants that came upwardly, really starting in the late 1970s. What was awesome about your stories that you give us that history of avocados. We're talking about over 10,000 years of history. So before we get into the United States, how did the first 9900 years of that history look like? The Mexican history. Well, Mexico itself, let's also remind ourselves is a relatively new invention if we're talking about in the millennial march of time and geology and everything else. This region of the world is super biodiverse, of course. And there's been, you know, civilized peoples creating building societies on both coasts and in the highlands in the middle of the country. For thousands and thousands of years. So out there in puebla in a small community and kind of a mid range altitude, they discovered proof of domestication of the tree, going back 10,000 years. That's proof that people on this part of the world have always been consuming this really interesting, unique fruit because of that butteriness because of that almost savory quality that it has. It really is intoxicating and I love it personally and I grew up eating it myself too since day one pretty much. I'm one of the few Mexicans. It doesn't really care for avocados, but let's just ignore. Let's just ignore it for me, it's a detector thing, but let's just ignore that for now. So obviously this is just such an important fruit, but once the Spaniards came in, they actually were not fans of the fruit. That was also really interesting and you picked up on you touched upon that in your book taco USA. There's actually rooftop on not a lot of research done on this compared to other things that we know a lot about in Mexico, like obviously core number one, for example, or even tomatoes, and chocolate. The Spaniards really didn't care much for it. They understood that native people ate it, but it wasn't something that became an immediate colonial export back to the old world. It must have been there obviously being consumed for hundreds of years throughout the colonial period, and I'm sure I would love to imagine that it was probably maybe even served in restaurants in some form in the old cities of colonial Mexico. But you're right. It wasn't until about the late 1800s or the 1900s when people first started bringing avocado trees up to California. And I.
Latino USA
"mexican" Discussed on Latino USA
"Walk again. The El Paso times reporter also described that as a looking pale and weak. She wasn't taking care of herself because how can you see hundreds of people per day? And then she must have been under a lot of pressure because there were thousands of people waiting to see her. Throughout her life, her connections to the Mexican revolution continue, earning her the title, the Mexican Joan of Arc, and El Paso de resacca edited Eli independent and anti the newspaper, some of the articles have her signature. During this period there were about 40 Spanish language newspapers in El Paso. And the large majority of them were anti DS. They were anti the dictatorship of Mexico. And so teresita was part of that movement, you know? She was spreading the seat, spreading the ideas throughout her life that herself was vocal about the Mexican government's exploitation of indigenous people. I pity the Indians of Sonoma. I wish they were cared for and protected. I fear there will be exterminated. I would do anything for them. The year that SR arrived in El Paso, she co authored a plan that a manifesto accusing the Mexican government of murdering yaki children. It also called for the abolishment of the death penalty and the Emancipation of women. And half of the people that signed this manifesto were women. So that's like incredibly advanced. During the same year, another anti rebellion breaks out. This time out of Mexican customs house located in nogales sonora. This is an August 12, 1896. And there's 40 rebels that attack the Mexican customs and the realists are not shouting viva la Santa Lara. The rebels kill two Mexican soldiers and temporarily took control of the customs house for several hours. Some of the men carried letters signed by Teresa, pictures of her, copies of the newspaper she co edited. U.S. and Mexican soldiers joined forces and killed 7 of the rebels, a picture of their dead bodies was published in the press. The caption described them as Los India's fanatical de la Santa de cahora. The extremist Indian followers of la Santa de cabora. The American press became highly critical of her. They accused her of leading several rebellions, including the one in nogales. So after this happens, the media begins questioning just how dangerous she was. Headline after headline accused her of leading rebellions of hypnotizing the peaceful yaqui Indians of causing trouble and Mexico with her spiritualist propaganda. That whole idea of Colleen her a witch is a way to discredit her to undermine her knowledge and her influence, and then by saying that she's the reason that indigenous people are rebelling, that's a way also to say their two ignorant to organize on their own. Her.
Sky News Daily
"mexican" Discussed on Sky News Daily
"Stopping. That's the point. i mean. They always finding on to stop. Corruption will stop crime and they will send you to this if these palm society. You're actually campaigning against yourself. If you take the hotel example where you just go a new a new age. The restaurant and all of that is controlled by the cartel. Then do you want to say a would not confuse the following places but then clean now. I the legitimate towns. We stay in a chain. I'm not going to name it. Something tells them singing now to the completely controlled by the similar crime gay. We know that we moved to a different one and it was. It was controlled by different cartel. So you can't really choose. Which one do you go to even even if the the front of house you like the big damages the hotel the things all the staff pay for as well so the jones linked so i think in a way i'm sure it's very Cillian murphy unsure it's like crime gangs existed not now so much but in the godfather days of of of new york virtually everyone knew somebody and the only way they work was because they will immigrants from it. I think that's the same in the mexican incite as always when you vote endemic as well because potency is these is work either. Cocktails crime or terrorism grows always. Does it move very well in that space and Is when you have that number of people who literally council to eat and the people work gangs that you're always like to were.
Pond's Feed
"mexican" Discussed on Pond's Feed
"That the western novelist and he did everything from Being a minor to a sailor to a former rancher a he actually was a cowboy for a while and punch cal tattle and So you look at all those experiences. All the people he would have come into contact with was what for some reason. He was In the shipping industry and traveled all over the world To asia and the middle east. And then just all over africa and so what a ended a form of course a very good base for him as a writer for historian and so be prepared to do a lot of regular jobs. But that's actually you'll be surprised. How many of the people that you knew in some way will end up in your work and And make you much better storyteller and then eventually of course the goal is to are able to make Enough rent income from your films if they get to be large enough that you can make that your primary focus okla. I mean that sounds like a nicely. I mean those a lot of critters up there or hopeful craters that just one to meet. We make this. Yeah i loved one day would love to podcast loving. But i mean you we gotta find something as some people call it. Plant some seeds in the ground so at that. I mean that. That's definitely a very helpful advice for a new wants to get into filmmaking. Mexican moon is available on amazon prime june. First free right don't create anything. Just pay that subscription. Yeah i mean. Jeff bezos oregon. Own your house so is also surrendered to him with mexican moon. It and then maybe. The next film Your parting with amazon prime..
Pond's Feed
"mexican" Discussed on Pond's Feed
"Does any of that change anything for you as filmmaker Well we definitely were following. The the protocols of the time i was i was talking to the state commission and And so we were shut down for three and a half months during the quarantine the stages said all all film production had to had to stop and so based on the the new guidelines It would definitely affect how many people i would. I would probably put Again those those places where. I would've used extra fill out the scenes and so vaccine people that have been vaccinated. That doesn't would've probably created a bigger set for me not not only in terms of Cast but i. I would have hired a couple more hands to help out to behind the camera. And how confident are you about that going forward because while all that being said there are some people are still concern and it would reasons one being that even now. Cdc says you can take your mask off no longer. Social distance there have been breakthrough cases of people who already been vaccinated in yet. They still got sick. And then there's these new strains karen actually spoke with another filmmaker who told me that these vaccines are only effective for six months and that there could be another outbreak over the summer. And i'm not one to believe the worst but you know. I'm very cautious about this. I mean if it does happen. I have no idea but i'm wanted to thoughts on that if i can't i can't speak to the you know the the medical part of i. I'm just a lowly filmmaker. So i'm not sure But definitely you know safety and health and life and all that sort of thing come before art and so if it if it turns out that there's a high number of breakout cases like you mentioned with people that have already been vaccinated or For whatever reason if there's a huge you know god forbid summer outbreak of of covert and a new strain. You know come out that forces back into quarantine than As as a filmmaker. I'll be affected just like someone who's a teacher or you know whatever job they do where we're all going to be affected again by and filmmakers in the archer definitely gonna be immune to having to go back into whatever protocols we we have to. I'm hoping for the best now with For those who don't even know the plight like what is mexican men about so it's it said in nineteen eighty in kind of a fictitious west texas town. It's about a vietnam vet who has come back and serve well but He's having a little bit of difficulty. Readjusting to civilian life in the cartels are starting to become very active on the border with this fictitious west texas town and as a result is kind of putting a financial strong stronghold or strangle hold onto the town's economy and businesses or kind of shutting up and because of the some of the violence coming in local business. People are are moving to el paso and kind of moving to other major areas outside of this little town and so The the vietnam vet the protagonist has to do a chain of circumstances ultimately At least he chooses to take cartel money..
Brew Talk 1310 KFKA
"mexican" Discussed on Brew Talk 1310 KFKA
"Ranking controls. Though back there dancing like crazy answers. You guys know bro. We dance like white guys. That is exactly right. we do that. welcome back into brew talk Cinco de mayo. We didn't have. I mean modell's eight is what it is. It's good mexican. But i would rather have a margarita than ever beer stable. Might that margaritas. Good don't get me wrong. I like by chad. Young breaking news. Readers are good. But i'd much rather drink this on a beach then really. I use all day long. I'd much rather have a vega. The one i didn't like the most of the three then a margarita. Especially if outside the hot weather really yeah ono because it's so keep me going longer. Margarita regina margherita heat done the sweetened. You're just sweating and done what you just sweat. Visiting i sweat eating. What city here. It's the sugar and the alcohol and it just all right so you drink beer on the beach. Drink your motel on the beach and then we go in for dinner at night okay. Well that's when we break into the break okay and worms for everybody. No thank you. See worm spray. Everybody what do we got going on. folks that at the tavern michael square chad. What do you got going on You know so graduation weekend and mother's day so Mother's day reservations are filling up so if you want in for that be sure to call soon and trivia on sunday night as well trivia on sunday nights. Yeah i love it. What's the number to call nine. Seven zero three throw beer. That's two three three seven for those. Thank you for me. I hate when people say that. My i don't know i don't mix with my numbers. Moser broken power to get going on. We've got live music hopefully nice and sunny so can be out on the patio all evening. still making pizzas and throwing them out there so come enjoy the last of our mexican lagers that are still going to be around and join us on the patio for some great music. Now for ryan kelly. Hey don't forget to stop by mighty river brewing are up stop abreu brutal visits ben brew. Talk on north dakota's voice thirteen ten kfi chairs..