Mexico City: Better than 11 trillion dollars!
I have been totally surprised by the sheer awesomeness of Mexico
City -- from a tourist's point of view. It's got monuments and museums
and antiquities that will knock your socks off. Friendly people. Great
transportation. And everything is cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap. How can
they do that? Easy. Mexico didn't just spend 11 trillion dollars on
weapons of mass destruction like America has.
Sure, this country has drug-war problems up in the north, in Sinaloa
and Juarez. But that doesn't seem to affect Mexico City. And if
America would just eliminate its so-called "War on Drugs" and make
marijuana completely legal and cocaine and heroin as legal as Oxycontin,
the Mexican drug wars would be over in a heartbeat. Believe it.
Here's me, basically a little old lady, walking the streets of downtown
Mexico City after dark and being perfectly safe. And the people are
awesomely helpful and friendly. Can we say any of that about most
American cities? What do you think?
"But, Jane," you might ask, "exactly what are your favorite things to
see?" Crap, don't even get me started. There's so much stuff! The
main cathedral is almost garish in its elaborate gold-leaf attempts to
show off Spanish colonial power and wealth. And in the plaza outside,
some Aztec shaman guy did a ritual on me that was guaranteed to give me
"power and respect". Will let you know how that one turns out.
The Museum of the Revolution is awesome! That's how they do it down
here -- bandoleers and trains and Villa and Zapata. Father Hidalgo and
Benito Juarez. America's sleazy Deep State would have had to watch its
back.
Then there's Frieda Kahlu. Her museum is truly inspiring. She lived
with so much physical pain that it drove her to become a great artist.
And even while almost on her deathbed, she still managed to attend a
rally in protest of America having just brutally and illegally seized
democratic Honduras (not for the first time either -- or for the last).
And all that beauty and glory of Chapultepec Palace? The Mexican branch of my familia
took me there. Those rulers lived high on the hog, as my mother used
to say. But where are they now? Having spent all their money on wars
of aggression and weapons of mass destruction, they had nothing left for
upkeep of the palace. The retro-colonial equivalent of 11 trillion
dollars, all poured down the rat hole of conquest, greed and craziness.
Sound familiar? Mexico's deja vu equivalent of America's current
money-pit debacles in Afghanistan, Iraq, Honduras, Syria, Libya,
Palestine, Africa, Haiti, Ukraine, Ferguson, Standing Rock, Berkeley
(see footnote), the South China Sea, Sinaloa, etc. But I digress. https://www.newcoldwar.org/whats-really-happening-syria-consumer-fraud-lawyers-mini-primer/
The bottom line is that it's sunny and warm and wonderful down here in
Mexico City, the people are friendly, the tourist attractions are some
of the best in the world and the food is really good -- and cheap too.
What's not to like? So buy your plane ticket right now and get your
booty on down here. Yes, I am talking to you.
Footnote: According
to activist Mike Lee, Berkeley's "Poor Tour" tent
city, one that protests homelessness in America by trying to make it
more visible, recently got raided by the City police. At the cost to the City of
approximately $30,000 per raid and after at least five of these brutal
raids that I know of, that's $150,000 spent by the City to harass these
protesters. That wasted money could have purchased at least ten "tiny
homes" for Berkeley's homeless.
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