Dear Sir,
There are many things I like about coming back to Ajijic as I have been doing for the past decade.
I like the malecon, the plaza, the easy “hola, buenos dias” on the streets and the way virtually everyone will meet my eyes when I greet them. I like the friends at the bridge club and those I see at various fundraisers. I like seeing friends from Ontario more often here than I do there. One of the little things I like is Bimbo’s Linaza bread, the like of which is hard to find in the frozen north. And one institution I particularly appreciate is your fine newspaper and Allyn Hunt’s column South of North.
Unlike Andy Meyers, Mailbag, Feb. 1-7, I appreciate both Mr. Hunt’s stories of Mexico past and present and his analysis of both U.S. and Mexican political and social life. Unlike Mr. Meyers as well, I do not believe that an individual need be a resident of the country he or she chooses to comment on. Many U.S. and Canadian commentators are willing to put forth ideas concerning countries they have never lived in nor even, in many cases, visited. I have never lived in the United States although I have visited on numerous occasions and I feel perfectly comfortable commenting on U.S. politics and society.
Ted Ruddy, Oakville,
Ontario and Ajijic
Dear Sir,
For me Allyn Hunt’s articles alone are worth the 17 pesos. In a recent article, however, Allyn and those in the donnybrook he inspired are missing the mark.
A simple measure reveals both major U.S. political parties as wings of the same rapacious bird of prey. The simple measure is this: Do the actions of a party promote personal freedom and economic growth for the citizens, or do they foster the cancerous growth of government power and its greater intrusion into our lives?
Both parties, with individual exceptions, are bought and paid for by moneyed interests. As Benito Mussolini told us: Fascism should more properly be called Corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power. He would know about that – and how it ends badly.
Now really, could any calm and rational analysis of the present U.S. political machinations of both parties conclude other than the Republic has fallen prey to corrupt politics, bribing corporations, and selfish interests?
We have a ruling class that is above the law: International banks launder drug money, the major Wall Street firms plunder the wealth of their private clients and entire nations, industrial giants pollute the environment, the world’s central banks have conspired for a century to loote the world’s wealth by the largest fraud in human history, while the main stream media diverts attention from the crimes. There are no consequences other than the enrichment of these criminals – so far anyway.
What Allyn misses is that both major parties are taking us down the road to a totalitarian new world order for the psychopaths, and abject serfdom for us.
Those of us who believe in the American system of government which is of, by and for the people should unite, and not allow ourselves to be seduced by propaganda and divided by political parties.
Martin E. O’Connor
Dear Sir,
It is blatantly obvious to most of us that many Mexican vehicles are badly maintained. Missing lights and bald tires are commonplace and yet the police do not appear to do anything about it. How can we ask the government to implement a system of mandatory annual safety checks that are common in most counties?
Robert Owen