From top to bottom, Mexico has rejected Bush's
war since its inception. President Vicente Fox refused to support White
House plans to bomb Iraq, earning Bush's eternal enmity, and the chill
has frozen bi-lateral relations between these two distant neighbor
nations ever since. The U.S. threatened and spied upon the Mexican
delegation at the United Nations Security Council and when Ambassador
Adolfo Aguilar would not bend, Bush unilaterally declared war and
stepped up recruitment of Mexican and Mexican American youth to
illegally invade Iraq. Juan Lopez Rangel was the 36th and most recent
U.S. soldier of Mexican descent to die in Iraq (since this was written
two more G.I.s of Mexican descent have appeared in the New York Times
daily list of the dead.) By this reporter's count, 20 of the dead
soldiers were born in Mexico and 16 were the children of migrants who
had gone over to the other side to find their fortune in El Norte. The
number of Mexican deaths in Iraq equals the number of Mexicans awaiting
execution on Texas death row. [more ]
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