Mexico marks revolution centennial amid new struggles

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Breitbart:

Mexico on Saturday marked the centenary of its revolution -- the first major social revolution of the 20th century -- with its goal of greater justice in mind as the country battles poverty and violent crime.

"We acknowledge the thousands of Mexicans who struggled and gave their lives to achieve a fairer and more equal Mexico for themselves and their children," President Felipe Calderon said in an address.

The movement started with a November 20 uprising led by Francisco Madero against dictator Porfirio Diaz, just months after Mexico celebrated the centenary of its 1810 independence from Spain. Its representatives produced a constitution in 1917, but outbreaks of warfare continued into the 1920s.

The revolution left more than one million people dead, maybe twice as many, according to some historians.

It led not only to the constitution, but also to education and land reforms as well as the eventual creation of the PRI, or Institutional Revolutionary Party, which was the dominant power for 71 years, creating relative stability in a region long marked by political unrest.

Commemorations for both the centenary and bicentenary come as the country is again struck by violent upheaval, this time from vicious drug gangs blamed for more than 28,000 deaths in less than four years, amid a military crackdown involving some 50,000 troops.
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The way things are going, Mexico might be headed for another one, or a civil war.

[AceRimmer]

I heard earlier on FNC of some Congresscritters suggesting we deploy troops down south of the border.

 

Bamp! Wrong answer! Thanks for playing.

 

Finish the walls, put minefields behind them, and have the National Guard behind the Claymores and Bouncing Bettys to scoop up the few who make it that far. Then ship them back to wherever they came from. As for the drug cartels, that's what guns are for. They fire a shot, we'll fire back about 50 or so and eradicate them. The heads can be mounted on the walls while the buzzards pick apart the rest of their bodies.

 

Of course, this will never happen while Obambi is busy apologizing to the rest of the world while they laugh at him, but it is what will eventually happen if this thing goes more out of control.