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BadBeagleBad
Joined: 23 Aug 2010 Posts: 1186 Location: 24.18105,-103.25185
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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MotherF wrote: |
Well I imagine they did their homework in L.A.
One thing I thought while reading it which wasn't addressed---can you use an expired IFE credencial to vote from abroad? While I'm willing to bet most Mexicans in the US do have one, it might not still be good if they have been in the US more than 10 years. |
No, it has to be current, but most Mexican do go home at some point, some every couple of years. |
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MotherF
Joined: 07 Jun 2010 Posts: 1450 Location: 17�48'N 97�46'W
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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BadBeagleBad wrote: |
No, it has to be current, but most Mexican do go home at some point, some every couple of years. |
That's not what I've found. But maybe because the people I know live so far from the boarder. They don't come back for visits, unless they are legally in the US. The illegals, stay, until they want to come home for good. My husband's cousin has been in the US for 16 years and has never been back for a visit. My neighbor came back last summer after 5 years in the US without a trip home. People on the street stop me and tell me they lived in the US for 10, 12, 20 years. They ask how long I've been here and ask me If I've ever been back for a visit. Expecting that the answer will be no. When they learn I have visited home in the time I've been here, then it dawns on them that I'm allowed to come and go as I please, and that must be really nice. |
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canada_1986
Joined: 23 Nov 2011 Posts: 44 Location: Canada
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 3:00 am Post subject: Re: Enrique Pe�a vs Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador en INGLES |
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Dragonlady wrote: |
As (I suspect) the majority of us here in the Caf� are English instructors, how important do you think it is for the president of Mexico to speak English?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2--GhXBwB7U
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I believe the heads of state for all major countries should be able to speak some English.
Felipe Calderon appeared on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight once, and his English seemed rather good. |
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Enchilada Potosina
Joined: 03 Aug 2010 Posts: 344 Location: Mexico
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 3:11 am Post subject: Re: Enrique Pe�a vs Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador en INGLES |
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canada_1986 wrote: |
Felipe Calderon appeared on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight once, and his English seemed rather good. |
Of all the puppet presidents it has to be said that Calderon has been one of the best. An excellent all-round front man. I'm sure Pe�a Nieto won't be half as good but then if GWB got away with it... |
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Dragonlady
Joined: 10 May 2004 Posts: 720 Location: Chillinfernow, Canada
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 3:49 am Post subject: Re: Enrique Pe�a vs Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador en INGLES |
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canada_1986 wrote: |
...I believe the heads of state for all major countries should be able to speak some English... |
So we won't even mention John Chr�tien, eh?
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ton a bricks
Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 56 Location: Mexico City
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:23 pm Post subject: Chretien? |
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It's Jean Chretien in English and John Chretien in French. He may be one of the world's only national leaders to have not had any mother tongue! |
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Guy Courchesne
Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 2:30 am Post subject: Re: Chretien? |
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ton a bricks wrote: |
It's Jean Chretien in English and John Chretien in French. He may be one of the world's only national leaders to have not had any mother tongue! |
He speaks Shawiniginian |
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MotherF
Joined: 07 Jun 2010 Posts: 1450 Location: 17�48'N 97�46'W
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Guy Courchesne
Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:52 am Post subject: |
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All hail Nieto...looks like he's won. |
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ton a bricks
Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 56 Location: Mexico City
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 2:06 am Post subject: Would you like some salt to rub into the wounds with that??? |
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There are going to be lots of unhappy people tonight.
At least with Fox there was an illusion that things would get better... But this time around... An illiterate fashion fiend and a soap opera star will make Mexico a laughing stock even more than a cowboy and a social climber managed to... |
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Guy Courchesne
Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 2:28 am Post subject: |
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Expect some campers on Reforma and the Zocalo for the next bit..
Actually, things are going to be good under Nieto...very good, for awhile. The PRI game has always been to play the markets to pay out the big names. Over the next 4 years, watch for big bond issues by the central bank, raising tonnes of money. That money will get spread around on infrastructure, and PRI affiliated companies.
After 4 years, they will rapidly increase the bond issues as it becomes clear that Mexico is running too high a public debt. Interest rates will rise and that's where the real money will be earned by those with the cash to invest. Inflation will rise and in time for the next elections, Mexico will be seeking an IMF bailout. And the public purse will be raided again.
It was nice to watch how Mexico took its first steps into real democracy over the last 12 years and built institutions to set itself on a good footing. It will be a shame to see them all undone now. |
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ton a bricks
Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 56 Location: Mexico City
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 2:35 am Post subject: Who will benefit? |
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But isn't that all about trickle up economics? Who gets left holding the bill? The same people as the one's who are paying the influenza porcina and fobaproa bills? I don't doubt there will be lots of hogs to the trough, but which hogs and to whose troughs? |
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Isla Guapa
Joined: 19 Apr 2010 Posts: 1520 Location: Mexico City o sea La Gran Manzana Mexicana
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 2:42 am Post subject: |
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Let's keep in mind that his name is Pe�a Nieto, not Nieto. |
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Guy Courchesne
Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 3:02 am Post subject: Re: Who will benefit? |
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ton a bricks wrote: |
But isn't that all about trickle up economics? Who gets left holding the bill? The same people as the one's who are paying the influenza porcina and fobaproa bills? I don't doubt there will be lots of hogs to the trough, but which hogs and to whose troughs? |
The Mexican taxpayer, as usual. And Mexicans didn't invent this game by the way....it's easy to see it being played in the US, Greece, Russia...
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Let's keep in mind that his name is Pe�a Nieto, not Nieto. |
I'm going to go with Pena for the next 6 years...as in que pena |
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Isla Guapa
Joined: 19 Apr 2010 Posts: 1520 Location: Mexico City o sea La Gran Manzana Mexicana
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Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 3:15 am Post subject: Re: Who will benefit? |
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Guy Courchesne wrote: |
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Let's keep in mind that his name is Pe�a Nieto, not Nieto. |
I'm going to go with Pena for the next 6 years...as in que pena |
That seems appropriate. Before the election, I heard him referred to as Pe�a Miento. |
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