Sorry this was so long! I just had to express my thoughts, and it's okay if you disagree. By the way, I checked out your YouTube page, and you play the bass very well. Keep up the practicing! Maybe you will be famous one day.
The current economic policy is already creating instability for the lives of many people down in Chiapas. This is why many of them are protesting and even suggesting armed rebellion. I personally am a pacifist and oppose any form of violence, so I hope that violence is avoided on both sides and that changes can be made peacefully (through peaceful protest and education, for example).
If the U.S. and Mexican governments truly want to curb this trend, they should drastically change policies so that farmers can remain in their communities and make a living. The current policies are set up so that transnational corporations can build big megaprojects over indigenous land, and then there is a ready pool of cheap labor for their sweatshops.
People definitely should enter the U.S. legally. However, people in desperate situations do desperate things. They can't pay the high fees to enter the U.S., and often aren't allowed to enter at all, and would rather make an hourly wage than get paid the Mexican minimum wage (44 pesos a day, from what I understand), which is not enough to live off of.
This is why the people down there are so distrustful of the government and of the form of capitalism it practices. I think that capitalism may work down there, but the rights of people to work on their land and maintain their communities have to be respected.
The communities are sent to live somewhere else where the land is not suitable for their sustenance, and the power that is produced from these dams and wind farms is mostly used to provide tourist attraction areas. Thus, the displaced people don't even receive electricity from the project that has displaced them. This has happened in Oaxaca, in the Yucatan, in Chiapas, and other places.
It also goes a lot deeper. For years and years many indigenous people in Mexico have been dealing with government officials passing laws to break up their communal lands, such as PROCEDE. Without explaining to communities what the consequences are, they approve projects like wind farms and hydroelectric dams, which displace whole communities (due to flooding, for example) who are dependent on the land for farming or fishing.
The rebellions in 1994 were in part a response to the passing of NAFTA. People in the south knew how this would negatively affect them. And they were frustrated with being ignored when it came to economic policy, much in the way people are frustrated with the Bush administration here in the States.
If capitalism is really supposed to work, farmers should be able to fairly compete, but NAFTA does not allow it. As a result, famers can't make a living, so they sell their land and travel up north to find work.
But there are some problems. First of all, trade policies like NAFTA allow subsidized U.S. agricultural products to be sold in Mexico where the family farmers can't compete. For example, U.S. corn is sold below the cost of production in Mexico, because the U.S. government subsidizes export/import corporations.
Hello. Thank you for sharing. I agree -- I don't like instability either. Nobody wants instability! I think there is a lot of misunderstanding about the people in Chiapas and why they are migrating up north. The indigenous farmers I work with down there also want stability. They are kind, hard-working people who want to stay in their communities with their families and continue farming, like their parents and grandparents have done.
Chiapans are more related to Central Americans than the rest of Mexicans. And it is also that they intend to bring the political instability that plagues most central american countries into my great nation.
These protests can escalate into guerrillas. like they did in 1994. Mexico cannot afford a dirty reputation for having an unstable region!
Hi. Thanks for sharing! I wrote a long response expressing my thoughts on the issue in the general commments space for the video, because it wouldn't have fit in the response section. You can read it and respond again if you want. Either way, keep playing your bass! You're good at it.
Mexico needs a reformer like Vladimir Putin (not in ideology, but in his strictness and precision).
If i become president, I'd also privatise Pemex and the CFE... well, all the energy industries to top it off, while allowing foreign competitors to come in and watch the Big Money come in.
well, let's think about it: it is there that love the people who downgrade our reputation anywhere north of the border. It is people from THERE mostly, who travel north and illegally cross the US border. Americans generalise that ALL mexico is like that, and I would not let that happen.
If I become president (of Mexico, and YES I AM mexican), the first thing I would do is sent the national guard to chiapas to crush all opposition and crack down on anti-government protests.
Oh and put to jail the rich-ass tycoon thieves (i.e. Carlos Slim)
Sorry this was so long! I just had to express my thoughts, and it's okay if you disagree. By the way, I checked out your YouTube page, and you play the bass very well. Keep up the practicing! Maybe you will be famous one day.
cheencheenvideo 4 years ago
The current economic policy is already creating instability for the lives of many people down in Chiapas. This is why many of them are protesting and even suggesting armed rebellion. I personally am a pacifist and oppose any form of violence, so I hope that violence is avoided on both sides and that changes can be made peacefully (through peaceful protest and education, for example).
cheencheenvideo 4 years ago
If the U.S. and Mexican governments truly want to curb this trend, they should drastically change policies so that farmers can remain in their communities and make a living. The current policies are set up so that transnational corporations can build big megaprojects over indigenous land, and then there is a ready pool of cheap labor for their sweatshops.
cheencheenvideo 4 years ago
People definitely should enter the U.S. legally. However, people in desperate situations do desperate things. They can't pay the high fees to enter the U.S., and often aren't allowed to enter at all, and would rather make an hourly wage than get paid the Mexican minimum wage (44 pesos a day, from what I understand), which is not enough to live off of.
cheencheenvideo 4 years ago
This is why the people down there are so distrustful of the government and of the form of capitalism it practices. I think that capitalism may work down there, but the rights of people to work on their land and maintain their communities have to be respected.
cheencheenvideo 4 years ago
The communities are sent to live somewhere else where the land is not suitable for their sustenance, and the power that is produced from these dams and wind farms is mostly used to provide tourist attraction areas. Thus, the displaced people don't even receive electricity from the project that has displaced them. This has happened in Oaxaca, in the Yucatan, in Chiapas, and other places.
cheencheenvideo 4 years ago
It also goes a lot deeper. For years and years many indigenous people in Mexico have been dealing with government officials passing laws to break up their communal lands, such as PROCEDE. Without explaining to communities what the consequences are, they approve projects like wind farms and hydroelectric dams, which displace whole communities (due to flooding, for example) who are dependent on the land for farming or fishing.
cheencheenvideo 4 years ago
The rebellions in 1994 were in part a response to the passing of NAFTA. People in the south knew how this would negatively affect them. And they were frustrated with being ignored when it came to economic policy, much in the way people are frustrated with the Bush administration here in the States.
cheencheenvideo 4 years ago
If capitalism is really supposed to work, farmers should be able to fairly compete, but NAFTA does not allow it. As a result, famers can't make a living, so they sell their land and travel up north to find work.
cheencheenvideo 4 years ago
But there are some problems. First of all, trade policies like NAFTA allow subsidized U.S. agricultural products to be sold in Mexico where the family farmers can't compete. For example, U.S. corn is sold below the cost of production in Mexico, because the U.S. government subsidizes export/import corporations.
cheencheenvideo 4 years ago
Hello. Thank you for sharing. I agree -- I don't like instability either. Nobody wants instability! I think there is a lot of misunderstanding about the people in Chiapas and why they are migrating up north. The indigenous farmers I work with down there also want stability. They are kind, hard-working people who want to stay in their communities with their families and continue farming, like their parents and grandparents have done.
cheencheenvideo 4 years ago
Chiapans are more related to Central Americans than the rest of Mexicans. And it is also that they intend to bring the political instability that plagues most central american countries into my great nation.
These protests can escalate into guerrillas. like they did in 1994. Mexico cannot afford a dirty reputation for having an unstable region!
delorean88mph2003 4 years ago
Hi. Thanks for sharing! I wrote a long response expressing my thoughts on the issue in the general commments space for the video, because it wouldn't have fit in the response section. You can read it and respond again if you want. Either way, keep playing your bass! You're good at it.
cheencheenvideo 4 years ago
Mexico needs a reformer like Vladimir Putin (not in ideology, but in his strictness and precision).
If i become president, I'd also privatise Pemex and the CFE... well, all the energy industries to top it off, while allowing foreign competitors to come in and watch the Big Money come in.
delorean88mph2003 4 years ago
well, let's think about it: it is there that love the people who downgrade our reputation anywhere north of the border. It is people from THERE mostly, who travel north and illegally cross the US border. Americans generalise that ALL mexico is like that, and I would not let that happen.
These people have to learn that capitalism works
delorean88mph2003 4 years ago
If I become president (of Mexico, and YES I AM mexican), the first thing I would do is sent the national guard to chiapas to crush all opposition and crack down on anti-government protests.
Oh and put to jail the rich-ass tycoon thieves (i.e. Carlos Slim)
delorean88mph2003 4 years ago
Just an honest question because I want to understand: Why would you want to crush opposition in Chiapas and crack down on anti-government protests?
cheencheenvideo 4 years ago