Is Mexican President Calderon too cozy with the United States and its involvement in his country? La Jornada columnist Javier Jimenez Espriu writes that Calderon’s apparent self-comparison to staunch U.S. ally Winston Churchill and rumors of U.S. military activities in Mexico are causes of great concern.
For Mexico’s La Jornada, columnist Javier Jimenez Espriu writes in part:
I’m worried by the exaggerated gesture of megalomania reflected by the fact that Calderón considers his life and that of Winston Churchill as “parallel lives.” Does he genuinely feel like the reincarnated Churchill? And therefore, will the president seek to expand on this parallel to extremes – short of receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature I suppose – given his proclivity toward our neighbors in the north, and try to repeat this sketch of history?
I approach this with fear, because there are still two occasions of June 6 remaining in the present federal administration, and as June 6th 1944 was the “D-Day” of the Normandy landings, I don’t wish to twin that date with the landing of American forces in connection with the Merida Plan, to help us win the war against the “axis of cartels.”
When there are rumors that the U.S. is installing military bases in the country; when there are confrontations within the Executive over whether U.S. overflights have been authorized and whether they were requested or ignored; when there is talk of a failed state and national security concerns on both sides of the border; when the U.S. is offered unrestricted access to our intelligence; or when ways to protect “unarmed” foreign agents in our country are discussed, I don’t think it’s too much to turn on our antennae, even if that characterizes us as paranoids.
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