Guess I am missing the point. Petroleum is on its way out. Time to focus on the future.
Nationalization of companies, parceling out land in small quantities, a broken constitution from the start, have all led to the disaster Mexico is living now.
People need to stop living in the past and look to the future.
Venustiano Carranza wrote:
"The 1917 constitution (Mexican Revolution) was an absurd war. Their representatives could not settle the differences peacefully in the opportunity offered by the Convention of Aguascalientes . Jose Vasconcelos, one of the members of the government emanating from that Supreme Convention, wrote refraining to that drama: it is an imbecile process, of dissolution, and humiliation of a whole race."
Out of 200 revolutions in the world over the last 300 years, only three have made a change. Most revolutions make promises that cannot be kept. For that reason, the Mexican Revolution was or is considered a complete disaster. The idea of giving land to everyone and taking away from the rich and foreign investment only led to millions of Mexicans with very small parcels from which they could never make a living.
One wonders why Mexicans have left their farmlands and moved to cities but then again, only to find out that without formal education their misery continues.
Education is key. Agriculture is still a good business, but one needs to have Agro education to make it work in a global economy.
We still haven't "gotten with the program".
I usually don't tell stories, but here goes a short one. We spent Christmas in Cuatro Cienegas, home of Venustiano Carranza and his 15 brothers and sisters. Most of the town look and feel like the real Venustiano. They keep the legend, politics, and history alive. (That's how you tell a story).
