Those who want to live as vassals; part one

In many nations and in many times exist and existed internal groups who wish to see their nation turned into vassals of a foreign group. Whether the foreigners an empire or merely a foreign elite makes little difference for the wannabe vassals.

This problem results so recurrent that deserves special attention. Hence, in this multi-entry record I describe the case best-known to me, so that it serves as reference for other persons in other countries. Accordingly, in this record I describe the outstanding case of the spineless militants of the mexican political party called «PAN» [1] and their supporters. First I briefly describe some generic aspects of their behaviour, stemming from their desire to live as vassals.

The manifest desire to place their nation under the tutelage of an external group

Unsurprisingly, little changed in the behaviour of the mexican «conservatives» during the last two centuries of nominal independence of Mexico. Consider:

1. The mexican independence got achieved by an agreement between the defenders of the colonial regime, and some very-few mexican freedom fighters at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Hence, the colonial order resulted never subverted, and the colonial elites retained their social positions.

   Thus, never happened any blossoming and dissemination of a truly national culture, and the newly independent mexicans continued reproducing the colonial culture —here include the perpetuation of both the colonial language, and colonial names of people and places.

   A truly-functional nascent nation would selected one, or a few, national languages and developed those while looking to the future. This resulted quite feasible at the time, since then existed large numbers of speakers of national languages. The social rigidity of the colonial regime created a quasi-static world where the subjugated communities served as «stock» available for exploitation on demand, thus creating the conditions for a somewhat steady and basic reproduction of national languages among the vassals.

   The newly independent state-organization made great damage to national languages by utilizing the colonial language as the sole official language, and by spreading literacy in that same language —the campaigns to eradicate national languages, euphemistically called «education». Thus, the mexican state-organization placed in structural disadvantage any one who did not speak the colonial language. The steady reduction of numbers of speakers (proportional to the national population), and quantity, of national languages leaves no ambiguity about such damage. This anti-national policy persists to the present day.

2. The aforementioned colonial elites specialized in human and basic-resources exploitation; not in the construction of any sort of civilization. Furthermore, during all the nineteenth century, the descendants of the colonial elites —then appropriately called the mexican «conservative» elites— exerted themselves to perpetuate a quasi-medieval order in Mexico. The history of Mexico of the time results rich in instances of such «conservative» desire to remain in a backwards condition.

   The most outstanding attempt (of the time) to remain as vassals of a foreign group consisted in the invitation the «conservatives» made to a foreign aristocrat —Maximilian of Habsburg— to become emperor of Mexico. Fortunately, in a rarely brilliant episode of mexican history, Maximilian of Habsburg died executed by the mexican nationalists.

3. During the last decades of that nineteenth century, and the first decade of the twentieth century, in Mexico ruled a dictatorship whose backbone consisted of both the army and those «conservative» elites. A general called Porfirio Diaz led the military dictatorship, which included soviet-style deportations of indigenous peoples for the purpose of extermination.

   As usual, the «conservative» elites systematically exploited people and abused whole communities bringing most mexicans to misery, until the mexican armed revolution of the beginning of the twentieth century. Again, neither technological nor ordinary civilizational developments happened. The dictatorship even overtly copied basic elements of the french culture, rather than developing any national culture.

4. In Mexico, a member of the elite —a man called Francisco I. Madero— started and initially managed the social movement which later turned into the aforesaid armed revolution. Furthermore, one of the main «leaders» of the revolution —an ignorant man called Francisco Villa— received weapons and presumably also financing from the stateian empire. Thus, apparently the mexican revolution consisted in, at least initially, a managed revolution organized by those members of local and foreign elites who asserted the political unsustainability and instability of the mexican misery.

   The tergiversation of the history of the mexican revolution results astonishing one century after those events. For example, in order to kill or defeat the peasant armed group called «zapatistas» in the province of Morelos —immediately on the south of Mexico City—, the federal army resorted to a scorched-earth policy, performed a number of massacres of civilians, and even utilized an airplane to drop bombs; but in order to conceal the truth, some propagandists talk about a fictitious «crisis of the corn-economy» to explain the defeat of the «zapatistas».

   On this topic, existed several versions of the main slogan utilized by the «zapatistas», as my father —raised on the region of those events— heard many variants and compares their reproduction to a «broken telephone» game. Nonetheless, at some time during my early teen years on the same region, when I listened to very old people born in the years immediately after the mexican revolution, I heard (and learned) the wording which I wrote in the book «Asynchronous Exchange: The End of Capitalism».

   The essence of the wording recorded by me appears in a number of references, the one I deem most important consist of an interview with the general Amador Acevedo which says [2], translated, clarification in brackets added by me: «Because as I could talk with Emiliano [Zapata], he said that the land was for the one who worked it.», where the talk refers to the ownership of the land. This same source does not know about any activities of some Ricardo Flores Magon, which likewise I never heard of in oral versions, but the latter received some publicity in recent years. A popular version very-close to what I recorded says «The land belongs to the one who works it» (spanish «La tierra es de quien la trabaja»); the phrase in the book appears as «The land belongs to those who work it with their own hands». The ending «with their hands» appeared, for instance, in the «coat of arms» of the province of Morelos painted in 1922.

5. The outcome of the mexican revolution either removed or softened some of the most unstable features and practices of the dictatorship. Most of the members of the local elite again retained their social positions.

   Later, during most part of the twentieth century, in Mexico ruled the «soft» dictatorship of the political party «PRI» [3] with an incomplete mildly-nationalistic program, yet the details of that dictatorship stand out of the scope of this record.

Nowadays, the militants and supporters of PAN result the cultural descendants of those mexican «conservatives». As such, pro-PAN individuals frequently refuse to acknowledge that in Mexico existed a spanish colonial regime which exploited people and land while committing cultural genocide and other crimes against humanity, regard the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz as a period of «peace, order, and prosperity», and wonder what would happened should Maximilian of Habsburg survived.

Furthermore, pro-PAN individuals still exert themselves to reproduce the spanish colonial culture, and to maintain any sort of «link» with the old spanish empire. Nonetheless, currently the stateian empire constitutes the target of the mexican «conservatives» who still seek the dominion of an external group.

Obedience as a virtue

The most recent incident reflecting such desire for external dominion happened during the last days, when stateian agents illegally participated in law-enforcement activities in the north of Mexico as part of (the realization of) the renewed Monroe Doctrine, which constitutes the official program of the stateian empire for the continent. The precise extent and nature of the participation of the stateian agents remains unverifiable, although they at least posed as members of a local law-enforcement agency while in front of mexican soldiers. The local law-enforcement agency operated under the command of a militant of PAN serving as the «governor» of the province of Chihuahua, bordering the stateian territory. Upon the discovery of the transgression, the most prominent militants of PAN unanimously refused to acknowledge the violation of the mexican laws and the mexican sovereignty.

The servility of top-ranking militants of PAN gets exemplified by the lackey Ricardo Anaya who utilizes as arguments [4], translated, clarifications in brackets added by me: «the governor of Sinaloa, Marina del Pilar [sic, the woman actually serves in another province], must come and explain us why the USA cancelled her visa»; and «here do not exist more than two possibilities. One, you knew perfectly about the presence of the stateian agents. Bad, because you were lying. Or two, you did not know, worse, means that the stateian government distrusts so much the narco-government [sic] of Morena [his political adversaries] that it did not inform what their agents do [in Mexico]». Hence, in the vision of the traitor, mexicans result accountable for not complying with the policies of the stateian empire, and likewise mexicans result accountable for not «winning the trust» of the stateian empire so that the empire reveals what its agents do on mexican homeland.

Trying to soften the incident, a propagandist of a private «conservative» mass-media [5] tried to present the transgression as the result of a «friendly relationship» —yet even elementary-school children know that a one-sided «friendship» does not constitute a friendship at all.

Relinquishing freedom

Upon the political scandal against its vassals, as a diversion, the stateian empire rushed to present some unsubstantiated accusations against political actors and persons associated to the adversaries of PAN [6], for activities proscribed by stateian laws, and supposedly done on mexican land. Thereat, the stateian empire requested the extradition of the accused individuals. Here again, the stateian empire pretending to apply its laws extraterritorially.

One should notice that a professional police investigation would almost-surely find a lot of illegal activities among mexican politicians: embezzlement, illegal financing of political campaigns, sharing confidential state information for their personal advantage, some individuals on the ranks of organized crime, and so forth. Still, this possibility does not imply that any accusation against any of those individuals results true.

Then events turned quite interesting from an anthropological point of view. All political parties and main political actors in Mexico accepted—

1. The massive covert surveillance of the stateian empire, against mexicans on mexican land, collecting information of private activities of mexicans, as the legitimate state of affairs, albeit most of them did it implicitly. This surveillance indispensable for collecting the «evidence» against the accused individuals.

   Any sovereign nation-state would consider such surveillance as an act of outright foreign aggression.

   Supposedly «nationalistic» politicians requested the stateian empire «comprehensive and conclusive proof for granting the extradition of the accused» —thus requested the stateian empire more information about private activities of mexicans in Mexico. Meanwhile, the wannabe vassals blindly accept whatever the stateian empire says.

2. The self-entitlement of the stateian empire to apply its laws over mexicans on mexican land. Where any transgressor must either surrender itself or get delivered to the imperial core by other mexicans.

   Basically, nobody stated that foreign laws cannot apply over a sovereign nation.

   Supposedly «nationalistic» politicians already accepted such subjugation, as briefly described in another record. And the wannabe vassals demand expeditious compliance with the foreign laws (the laws of the stateian empire).

This internalized obedience converts Mexico into a de-facto colony of the stateian empire. Happened no military invasion by the stateian empire; and most locally-distributed political propaganda, of any orientation and preference, gets created by mexicans themselves.

The mostly-unconscious nature of this primitive obedience allows it to creep on the local culture. The next step, of course, consists in normalizing an overt surveillance of the stateian empire over mexicans in Mexico. Unsurprisingly, the militants of PAN in the province of Chihuahua here again operate at the vanguard of national subjugation: In «Cuidad Juarez» (Juarez City) stateian agencies got allocated a full floor in a tower specialized in police surveillance over mexicans [7], while police patrol cars of the city of Chihuahua display the logotype of the New York Police Department [8].

The «neoliberal» anti-national policies and their outcome

During the decade of 1980, a high-ranking faction of PRI betrayed the program of the party, and thereat adopted the tenets of «neoliberal» capitalism as their project for Mexico. Due to this betrayal many militants and supporters of PRI deserted the party; the party remained under the control of the traitors. Many of those who deserted the old PRI ultimately coalesced into another political party informally called the «new PRI», formally called «Morena» [9], whose militants in recent years obtained a majority of public offices through election —this latter party I tangentially introduced in another record.

The militants of PAN, together with the then-reduced militants of PRI, implemented decades of rampant «neoliberal» capitalism in Mexico, from 1988 to 2018. Such socio-political project produced, chiefly, without attempting any exhaustive list:

• Massive ecological destruction.
• The consolidation of the transition from ancestral rural poverty into urban poverty: into slums or favelas.
• An increased dependence upon foreign technology.
• A local unvarnished oligarchy. For instance, the mexican oligarchy comprises a man —Carlos Slim— who became for a while, by capitalistic measurements, the «most wealthy man on Earth» after receiving from the mexican state the national monopolistic telecommunications enterprise called Telmex during the decade of 1990.
• Many private businesses anchored in noncompetitive privileges or advantages: toll-based highways, monopolistic or oligopolistic distribution of products, etcetera.
• The conversion of Mexico into a repository of cheap —poor or miserable— labourers available to transnational capitalistic enterprises, intending to compete with the chinese and south-east asian «sweat workshops». Thus, intending to make ordinary mexicans compete in wages with people who lived almost in modern slavery. This intention of setting the mexican labourers as the «main mexican competitive advantage in the capitalistic globalization» enunciated and publicized explicitly by the local promoters of «neoliberalism» at the time.

The «neoliberal» anti-national ideology

The highest-ranking militants of both PRI and PAN, and the local oligarchy which controlled most of the mexican mass-media, openly embraced and defended the capitalistic doctrine which supported an imaginary prosperous outcome alien to the disastrous real-world consequences. I debunked the capitalistic doctrine in the book «Asynchronous Exchange: The End of Capitalism», therefore will not repeat here that explanation.

However, something different happened with the ordinary (rank and file) militants and supporters of PRI and PAN.

Usually, pro-PRI individuals understood and accepted corruption and dishonesty as part of the regular behaviour of their «leaders», almost as a «natural outcome» of human life. As I remember, pro-PRI individuals saw the massive transference of state assets into private individuals, the creation of privileged positions, and the rise and thriving of people based on activities other than their own work, as just another instance of the typical corruption of PRI.

In contrast, ordinary pro-PAN individuals actually believed the capitalistic doctrine. Furthermore, even in the face of conspicuous facts which showed the falsehoods of the «neoliberal» project, ordinary pro-PAN individuals consistently failed to see the truth. For example, when Carlos Slim became the «wealthiest man on Earth» and Telmex remained a firm monopoly during at least two decades, many pro-PAN useful idiots still assured everybody that Slim received Telmex in order to «foster competition».

In the next part of this multi-entry post I will describe the basic elements of the culture which upholds the behaviour of the mexican «conservative» elites, and of the mexican pro-PAN useful idiots.

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Anders Baerbock
2026.114

[1] Acronym of the name in spanish «Partido Accion Nacional».
[2] Page 141 (page 139 of the pdf), «Entrevista al General Amador Acevedo» [https://iepen.congresogro.gob.mx/libros/plan-de-ayala-pensamiento-y-lucha-campesina.pdf], also some official source repeats the slogan [https://www.gob.mx/cultura/es/articulos/la-tierra-es-de-quien-la-trabaja-o-zapata-el-eterno-insurrecto?idiom=es], and another version used to appear in the official «coat of arms» of the province of Morelos [https://histodetlaquil.blogspot.com/2016/11/el-escudo-actual-del-estado-de-morelos.html].
[3] Acronym of the name in spanish «Partido Revolucionario Institucional». The informal combination of PRI and PAN in the same political project known as «PRIAN».
[4] [https://www.pan.senado.gob.mx/2026/04/el-coordinador-de-las-y-los-senadores-del-pan-ricardo-anaya-cortes-en-reunion-de-la-comision-de-puntos-constitucionales/]
[5] The propagandist Francisco Zea on «Imagen TV» during the morning of 2026.113, about at 7:20-7:30 local time.
[6] Indictment presented by the same artist who presented the fabricated charges against now-former venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. [https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/governor-sinaloa-and-nine-other-current-and-former-mexican-officials-charged-drug].
[7] [https://www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2026/04/23/politica/para-dea-y-fbi-un-piso-del-bunker-policial-de-chihuahua].
[8] [https://vanguardia.com.mx/noticias/mexico/por-que-las-patrullas-de-chihuahua-tienen-el-logo-de-la-policia-de-nueva-york-esto-se-sabe-del-convenio-que-tienen-con-eu-JO20843875] and [https://www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2026/05/20/estados/patrullas-con-logo-de-ny-en-chihuahua].
[9] Acronym of the name in spanish «Movimiento de Regeneracion Nacional».