Harvard and Calderon: Insdiously Linked in Fellowship

 

Harvard and Calderon:  Insidiously Linked in Fellowship?

The bi-national US and Mexican elite are tied together by their mutual agendas for profit.  They control both governments,  trade, drug wars,  and many institutes of higher learning.  With these agendas for profit the bi-national elite disgracefully put their greed for money above human life and dignity. 

Bet your bottom dollar they take care of their own.    

The Harvard fellowship for ex-Mexican Drug War President Felipe Calderon perfectly exemplifies how this bi-national conspiracy plays out.  Both countries' elite profit from the drug war.  Billions are made not only in illegal drug profits but in security and munitions sold for drug war enforcement too.  Needless to say, their drug war and illegal drugs not only kill human beings but also destroy the peacefulness of both countries' citizens too.  As a result of Calderon's failed US backed war, Mexico has suffered some 100,000 deaths and 25,000 missing.   US taxpayers foot the bills for not only their elite's failed enforcement efforts but for the incarceration and treatment expenses of the US addicted too.    

Yes these bi-national elite with their agendas for profit will certainly defend one of their own.

Put another way, the bi-national elite, their banks, and their drug war/educational institutions will profit despite the devastation of tens of thousands of peoples' lives on both sides of the border.  Now did Felipe Calderon work for the US elite or the Mexican elite or perhaps both?   Common sense says both.  Yet regardless of common sense we do know that as this man sidesteps the blood of his own nation he is accepted north as a Harvard fellow.   

Yes.  Harvard is staunchly defending its elite's selection of Felipe Calderon as a HKS fellow.  Or is it possible that Harvard will take heed to the thousands of petitioners' outcries about Calderon's murderous drug war presidency; outcries by people (primarily Mexican) who know the horrid truth?   

We the petitioners ask Harvard to make the moral  and honorable choice.  We ask Harvard to refuse to settle for being insidiously linked in fellowship with Calderon and his  legacy of "corruption and blood".  We ask Harvard's President Drew Faust to Deny Mexican Drug War President Felipe Calderon A Fellowship and Employment at Harvard.  

Please sign our bi-national petition linked below.  

http://www.change.org/petitions/harvard-university-president-faust-deny-drug-war-president-felipe-calderon-a-harvard-fellowship-and-employment?utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=url_share&utm_campaign=url_share_after_sign

Sweet Drug War Deal for Them

The Mexican Drug War: the bi-national elite owning and profiting off of not only their illegal drug industries, but also their enforcement industries which fight the never ending war on drugs. Sweet deal for them.

We have been so bamboozled. Forty years of failure and how many cops and innocent people killed? How many people imprisoned? How many billions of tax payers' dollars funneled into US companies that profit off of this failure? Guns, ammunition, bullet proof vests, tactical gear, surveillance equipment, tanks, airplanes, border militarization, the enormous payrolls of the DEA, ICE, Border and Customs enforcement, all of the drug squads in all of the police departments across the US.

Wake up. Use the US backed drug war in Mexico as the current insidious example that it is. Calderon's six year long military drug war cost some 100,000 dead and 25,000 missing, while the elite cartel leader Chapo Guzman is just as free as the day the war started.

Record profits for bank's laundering money. Google HSBC.

How does the US elite reward their Mexican Drug War CEO in retirement? Well of course, a lucrative fellowship a HARVARD!

Google Harvard/Calderon/petition and voice your opposition!

A .22, Firecrackers and Kids

When I was a kid we loved to play with firecrackers.  Thank God there were restrictions on dynamite.

We had a .22 rifle locked in my Dad's gun case.

We got into the case (can you really hide keys from kids?) and one of my friends was of course, goofing around with the rifle.  He fired off a round that fortunately only went into the wall.

Another of my friends decided one day to use a hammer on one of the .22 rounds.  It went off, and thank God no one was hurt. 

One time we decided to take a gun powder out of a bunch of firecrackers.  We filled up a glass cigar tube half way.  We caped it off with the tube's cork and used some of the fuses to set it off inside our neighbor's metal mailbox. 

It blew the mailbox off of its post. 

I know.  Not much supervision at home.  That's what divorces, alcoholism, guns, firecrackers and eleven and twelve year olds do. 

And then there was the time my brother and I decided to dig an 12"X3" hole behind The Frietas'  garage.  We took an 8" caste iron skillet for a test fly.

I know this the truth because The Brown twins, Pam and Chris were there and I just saw them at our 40th Class Reunion.  We still laugh about this story.  By the way, the Brown twins were very cute and were the daughters of Mr. Doug Brown, the principal of our school.  Our backyards faced each other's.  That is another story all together.

So my brother and I  found an 8" caste iron skillet.  We had some M80 super firecracker that we placed under the skillet in the hole and lit. We thought that we might stand on the skillet until the M80 went off.  We lost our balance and jumped off at the last second. 

I swear to God - the skillet went straight up and out of site!  Pam and Chris saw it too.  We panicked, and luckily were able hide quickly hide under The Frietas' redwood picnic table. 

We all hid.  And waited.  And waited.   Then my big brother Bob decided to step out and take a peek.

BAM! That skillet hit Bob him on the side of his head and knocked him down and out.  His eye was the size of a bruised and bloody baseball.  By the way, if you knew Bob, you would understand that this could of only have happened to him!

When Bob got up we cried our way home to get some help from my poor Mom.

Anyway, the common sense, moral of the story is:  more guns, ammo and gunpowder out there will  surely cost some children their lives.       

Americams: Bumper Sticker Stupid?

In response:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/16/mexicos-drug-war-violence_n_2488520.html?utm_hp_ref=latino-voices

How to wake up Americans who are bumper sticker stupid? If the shoe fits you need to clear you mind and start educating yourself.

Question #1: Why would any government fight a losing war for over 40 years?
Question #2: Who in their right mind would start a drug war in Mexico following the advice (and taking the money) of the government of question #1?
Question #3: Why would the president of the country named in question #2 continue his insane, bloody drug war knowing that his own innocent people were being slaughtered in the process?
Question #4: Why would the government of question #1 take the president of question #2 and make give him a fellowship at HARVARD University (starting 1/28/2003)?

This is no movie folks, this is the real deal.

Help us tell Harvard "Just Say No" to Calderon. Google Petiton/Harvard/Calderon/
and sign!

The Exportation of the Mexican Undocumented to Hometown America

Here is the dilemma;  many Americans cannot see beyond their own street corners and hospital emergency rooms.  Or in the case of my own brother in our hometown of San Jacinto CA, his own town.

The influx of the undocumented after Clinton's NAFTA was a title wave.  The amount of the undocumented living in some places quadrupled.

So who do many people including my own brother blame?  The undocumented. 

 I blame the US/Mexican bi-national 1% who run both government.  It is they who profit from illegal immigration, and it is people like my brother and the undocumented who pay the price.     

If we want a solution to this we have to be educated about the real cause and the real culprits.  The cause is greed.  The culprits are the 1% who as in US health care, jobs, education, and mortgage meltdowns, put their profit above our lives.

The 1% do not have their hometowns, emergency rooms ,schools and jobs overtaken by the ,undocumented.   And it is the 1%, like Clinton and NAFTA, who cause and caused this while profiting from it at the same time.

Here is what they do.  The Mexican 1% export human laborers (the undocumented) to the US in order to avoid providing for those exported people.  The US 1% import those undocumented to profit from their labor, especially agricultural corporations.   The Mexican 1% get billions pumped back into their economy as remittances.  The US 1% pays dirt wages to laborers to maximize their profits.   The US taxpayers foot the educational, medical, and job loss bills for this insidious setup.

This setup does not change because the 1% on both sides of the border make too much profit in keeping it as it.  This is very similar to the illegal Mexican drugs industry.    

I know from my own experience that the Mexican undocumented (who make up over 50% of the undocumented in the US) would not come or stay here if they could make a comparable living wage working safely at home.

So why do we seldom if ever hear US politicians or Washington criticize that filthy corrupt 1% run Mexican government for the part it plays in our illegal immigration problems?  There is simply too much money being made by them in maintaining the status quo. 

We put economic sanctions on Iran for supposedly building a nuclear bomb.    Could we not put economic sanctions on Mexico until they clean up their act and take care of their own people?

Not if you are a 1% paid politician.  Our legal trade with Mexico currently boasts some 1.25 billion dollars a day in cross border trade.  Don't forget Mexican oil,  which comes in as our number two source of oil behind Canada.

We made the full loop.  This is all about the bi-national 1% running both governments and economies to their profit advantages.  Meanwhile, people in hometown America,  like my brother, are paying the price, as are the undocumented who are exported to his hometown.   

More on the scam.  The Mexican 1% export human laborers in order to avoid providing for those exported people.  The US 1% import those undocumented to profit from their labor.   The Mexican 1% get billions pumped back into their economy as remittances.  The US 1% pay dirt wages to maximize their profits.   The US taxpayers foot the educational, medical, and job loss bills for this insidious scam.

This scam does not change because the 1% on both sides of the border make too much profit in keeping it as it (very similar to the drug war).     

From my experience the Mexican undocumented (who make up over 50% of the US undocumented ) would not come or stay here if they could make a comparable living wage working safely at home.

Yet we seldom if ever hear US politicians or Washington criticize that filthy corrupt 1% run Mexican government for the part it plays in our illegal immigration problems.  Simply too much money being made by them in maintaining the status quo. 

Could we not put economic sanctions on Mexico until they clean up their act and take care of their own people?

Not if you are a 1% paid politician.  Our legal trade with Mexico currently boasts some 1.25 billion dollars a day in cross border trade.  Don't forget Mexican oil,  which comes in as our number two source of oil behind Canada.

We made the full loop.  This is all about the bi-national 1% running both governments and economies to their profit advantages.  Meanwhile, people in hometown America,  like my brother, are paying the price, as are the undocumented who are exported to his hometown.   

The Wheel of Death Goes 'Round and 'Round

Mexico has the drugs. America has the addicted. The 1% in both countries profit from that scenario.

The Mexican and American elite who run their respective governments make the drug war which they both profit from.

The US makes the guns and weapons which are either sold or smuggled all over the world and are used to make war and profit from all over the world.

Isn't interesting how US weapons manufacturers directly or indirectly arm both sides of the drug war in Mexico? Is it any wonder that the US has been fighting the drug war (for profit) for over 40 years?

Calderon's US backed folly left some 100,000 dead and 25,000 missing. Just think of the twenty years of fighting the cocaine drug war with Colombia alone. The money spent and the lives lost have made no difference. They just have caused the cartels to adjust their routes.

Here is the loop: never-ending greed causing never-ending war causing never-ending weapons causing never-ending death causing never-ending war caused by never ending greed.

And if any of you American blind do not think US banks profit from this, you are dead wrong. Yep, those same banks that brought on the Great Recession of 2008.

Like Blaming Climate Change On the Bad Weather

Blaming the undocumented for coming to the US is like blaming climate change on the bad weather.

We Stupidly Spin Our Wheels In Our Own Muck

in response:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/10/mexico-us-gun-laws_n_2451434.html?utm_hp_ref=latino-voices&ir=Latino%20Voices

Here goes all of the back and forth babbling and finger pointing.  Illegal guns, illegal drugs, and illegal people are all means to someone's ends.  Those ends are profit, and that profit is bi-national and global.

Until we address the bi-national and global profiteers' ways, we stupidly spin our wheels in our own muck.

The Best Propaganda Snow Jobs of All Time

in response: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/09/truth-about-porder-patrol-infographic_n_2440592.html?utm_hp_ref=latino-voices

Absolutely the best propaganda snow jobs of all time.

Blaming the symptom and not the cause.  Hating the symptom, and not the cause.  Raging red at the symptom, and blind to the cause.

Think:  would the Mexican undocumented come or stay here if that corrupt so called government of theirs made sure that they were paid a decent living wage?   How come it has never dawned on you why US politicians seldom if ever criticize that corrupt, cartel run trading partner of theirs for the part that they play in illegal immigration to the US? 

It is like the war on drugs.  It isn't designed to do anything but perpetuate the status quo at your expense.

If you who act like burros would stop insanely charging the red flag and instead target the elite who wave it, we might have a chance of fixing this fiasco.    
 

Bi-National Cause - Bi-National Petions - Harvard- No to Calderon

We are joining forces against this bi-national tragedy and hypocrisy!


http://www.change.org/petitions/harvard-university-president-faust-just-say-no-to-mexican-drug-war-president-felipe-calderon-and-yes-to-our-bi-national-petitions

http://www.change.org/petitions/harvard-revierta-la-contrataci%C3%B3n-de-felipe-calder%C3%B3n

Harvard y Calderón: Indeleblemente Relacionados Con Cátedra

Harvard y Calderón: Indeleblemente Relacionados Con Cátedra
(Traducido por Erich Moncada) 

Las élites binacionales de México y los Estados Unidos están vinculadas por sus agendas de enriquecimiento. Controlan ambos gobiernos en cuanto al comercio, la guerra contra las drogas y las instituciones de educación superior. Con estas agendas las élites binacionales anteponen, por desgracia, su ambición por el dinero sobre la dignidad y la vida humana.

Les apuesto hasta el último dólar que pueden hacerse responsables de quienes trabajan para ellos.

La cátedra de Harvard para el expresidente de la narcoguerra, Felipe Calderón, ejemplifica perfectamente la mecánica de la conspiración binacional. Los grupos minoritarios de ambos países se enriquecen con la guerra contra las drogas. Miles de millones son generados no solo por las ganancias de las drogas ilícitas sino por la venta de armamento para combatir este fenómeno delictivo. Está por demás decir que su narcoguerra no sólo asesina a seres humanos sino que diezma la paz de los ciudadanos de ambos países. México ha registrado la muerte de 60 mil a 100 mil de sus compatriotas. El dinero de los contribuyentes de Estados Unidos  es destinado a las iniciativas de procuración de justicia sino al encarcelamiento y gastos de tratamiento de los adictos de dicho país.

Sí, estas élites nacionales con su misión de generar riqueza pueden defender a uno de los suyos.

Visto de otra forma, estos grupos, sus bancos y sus instituciones educativas seguirán enriqueciéndose a pesar de que la vida de miles de personas hayan sido devastadas a lo largo de la frontera. ¿Trabajó Felipe Calderón para la élite de su país o también para la nuestra? El sentido común nos dice que lo hizo para ambas. Y no se requiere de sentido común para saber que este hombre pasa por encima de la sangre derramada por sus propios connacionales y en un acto de cinismo es aceptado en el norte como docente de Harvard.

Hardvard defenderá a capa y espada la selecciones cupular de Felipe Calderón como profesor universitario. Los complacientes decanos y profesores de Hardvard celebrararán la nueva encomienda de Calderón. Pasarán por alto el reclamo de miles de peticionarios que denuncian las tragedias acaecidas durante la fallida narcopresidencia de Felipe Calderón. Son los gritos de desesperación de una multitud de personas que conocen la horrible verdad.

Mientras tanto la institución de Harvard estará inevitablemente vinculada con el legado de corrupción y sangre de Calderón.

Harvard and Calderon:  Indelibly Linked in Fellowship

The bi-national US and Mexican elites are tied together by their mutual agendas for profit.  They control both governments,  trade, drug wars,  and institutes of higher learning.  With these agendas for profit the bi-national elites' disgracefully put their greed for money above human life and dignity. 

Bet your bottom dollar they take care of their own.    

The Harvard fellowship for ex-Mexican Drug War President Felipe Calderon perfectly exemplifies how  this bi-national conspiracy plays out.  Both countries' elites profit from the drug war.  Billions are made not only in illegal drug profits but in security and munitions sold for drug war enforcement too.  Needless to say, their drug war not only kills human beings but also decimates the peacefulness of both countries' citizens too.  Mexico has suffered some 60k to 100k deaths .   US taxpayers foot the bills for not only their elite's failed enforcement efforts but for the incarceration and treatment expenses of the US addicted too.    

Yes these bi-national elites' with their agendas for profit will certainly defend one of their own.

Put another way, the bi-national elites, their banks, and their drug war/educational institutions will profit despite the devastation of  tens of thousands of peoples' lives on both sides of the border.  Now did Felipe Calderon work for the US elite or the Mexican elite or perhaps both?   Common sense says yes.  Yet regardless of common sense we do know that as this man sidesteps the blood of his own nation as he is accepted north as a Harvard fellow.   

Yes.  Harvard will staunchly defend its elite's selection of Felipe Calderon as a HKS fellow. Subservient Harvard deans and professors will high-five each other praising Calderon's fellowship. They will ignore the thousands of petitioners' outcries about the tragedies of  Calderon's failed drug war presidency.  Outcries by people (primarily Mexican) who know the horrid truth.    

Meanwhile the institution of Harvard will be indelibly linked in fellowship with Calderon's  legacy of "corruption and blood". 

Pawns Prolonging Drug War Problems (and Profits)

From: WILLY AZARCOYA CABIEDES [w.azarcoya@tecmilenio.mx]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 12:13 PM
To: Ellwood, David
Subject: fellowship

Mr. David ellwood: 

Please make the following message available to the Harvard community:

I read with great displeasure that an institution of -till now - such credibility has accepted to give "the fellowship for government leaders who left office" to Mexico's ex president Felipe Calderon. What is the message to the students at Kennedy School. Boys you can steal an election, leave a country ravaged and you get the recognition of the Kennedy School. If you take the time to investigate the facts you will find out that Mr. Calderón never could - or even tried - to prove that he had won the election for the presidency of México. He took office through the back door – as a thief – and leaves a toll of 50,000 innocent citizens  in his personal fight against drugs, leaving the drug cartels well and  functioning. The IFE Instituto Federal Electoral (the Electoral Federal institution)  has declared that Mr. Calderón broke the electoral law and that makes him a delinquent, his reaction was only to mock the situation by saying "I won whichever way". So if it's OK with you to have such a person as a mentor to your students as we say in Mexico, "Eat it with your own bread". He has now cried "Sanctuary" to your institution , and you are complying, but remember you don't hold justice on your side this time. 

 

 

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters” 
― Albert Einstein

 

M. en ISD. Willy Azarcoya

Tel. 442-213-3570

Cel. 442-155-5753

Querétaro, Qro.

 

________________________________________________________________________________

 

Dear Mr. Azarcoya,

 

Thank you for taking the time to write to me.  I understand your concerns. One of the fundamental tenets of the Kennedy School and all American universities is a free exchange of ideas. In keeping with our educational mission, the School has a long tradition of providing an opportunity for leaders from around the world to speak to and interact with the community on important public policy issues, and just as importantly, to give members of our community the opportunity to ask unfiltered questions of these leaders. The unique opportunity to engage in direct discussion with a head of state is one that many of our students value greatly, even if they may disagree on some policy positions.  And knowing our students as I do, I am confident that the one-year fellowship will present both our students and Mr. Calderón with a very rich discussion and debate.   

 

Thank you again for sharing your perspective.

 

Best regards,

David

 

David T. Ellwood, Dean

Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy

Harvard Kennedy School

79 JFK Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

Phone: (617) 495-1122

 

___________________________________________________________________________________

Dear Mr. Ellwood and Mr. Black,
 

How much time have either of you spent working or living on the US/Mexican border?  Have you actually ever visited Ciudad Juarez Mexico?   How many of your HKS students are from impoverished areas of Mexico?   How many of your students have struggled on or lived near the US border?  How many of your students have had family members killed or who have gone missing because of Calderon's drug war?  How many of your students truly understand the problems that Calderon has left Mexico? 

 

My guess would be very few if any.  So much for those "unfiltered questions" to be asked of Mr. Calderon.   

Please tell me something.   If Adolph Hitler were alive would he be offered a one year fellowship at Harvard in order to speak about his "important policy issues"?

I think not.  How about the idea of someday inviting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran to be a fellow?  Or how about Iran's current Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei?

 

I don't think that they would be invited even though they would appear to qualify for a fellowship according to your rhetoric below.  No way Jose.  Someone somewhere in the decision making department at Harvard would say no way to those two "terrorists" (if the idea would even ever be considered). 

 

Do you or does anyone else at Harvard really understand how Calderon's (US Drug War) policies terrorized the common people of Mexico?   If you did, and you had any sort of moral compasses at all, you would not participate in this morally reprehensible fellowship.

 

You people fail to comprehend the words of Mr. Azarcoya and the hundreds of other Mexican who have commented to Harvard.

 

By the way, I see that Mr. Black is a Professor of Political Economy and is writing responses in your absence Mr. Ellwood.     

 

Is Mr. Calderon's fellowship really based upon the economic ties between the US and Mexico?   You know, 1.25 billion dollars a day in cross border trade, Mexican oil, and NAFTA/maquiladora profits etc.?     

 

My guess is yes.  It is the same 1% scam that is destroying our country.  Profit above human life. 

 

You spin Calderon's fellowship as some democratic "unique opportunity to engage in direct discussion with a head of state" when it is fact it is the bi-national 1% covering their economic backs and drug war profit margins.

 

In my humble opinion you guys are not searching for any economic or governmental solutions to this Drug war.  How can you when you are pawns prolonging the problems (and profits) of the same?   

 

John Randolph

Discussion of Immigration and Border Issues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWfDX-Xsr38

According to NRA Logic Drones Don't Kill People

My friends who love the NRA say that "guns don't kill people". 

Extrapolate that to death by drone.  "Drones don't kill people". 

Then bring that back to the title of this HP article: 
Pakistan: U.S. Drone Strikes Kill 13, Including Militant Commander Maulvi Nazir

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/03/pakistan-us-drone-strikes_n_2400137.html

The use of the term "drone strikes" puts the responsibility of killing on the drone, and not the guy or gal who fired the weapon;  not the supervisor who authorized the killing, and not on President Obama who ordered the killing.

No matter how they spin it President Obama orders the murder of human beings without due cause, and he is responsible for the murder of those human being, not the drones.  

No matter how the NRA spins it, the person who pulls the trigger with the intent of murdering human beings is responsible for murder, not the gun(s). 



 

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/felipe-calderon-harvard-drug-war

Protesters to Harvard: Just Say No to Mexican Drug War President

Harvard man Felipe Calderón is headed back to his alma mater, much to the chagrin of his detractors.

—By Dana Liebelson

| Thu Jan. 3, 2013 3:06 AM PST

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Former Mexican President Felipe Calderón CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture/Flickr

Former Mexican President Felipe Calderón, who led a controversial military crackdown on drug cartels, is moving to the United States to take an academic fellowship with Harvard University. But protesters, both Mexican and American, say that given Calderón's political past, he shouldn't be offered this prestigious position or even allowed to work here.
"It's a total disgrace to the families of Mexican citizens who lost their lives because of the drug war," says John Randolph, who worked for the US Border Patrol for 26 years before retiring, and has posted a petition on Change.org asking Harvard to rescind Calderón's fellowship.
Randolph's petition, which has received more than 6,700 signatures, cites evidence similar to that presented in a 2009 Mother Jones article on the drug war by investigative journalist Charles Bowden. In his story, Bowden details how after taking power in 2006, Calderón failed to protect persecuted journalists and used the Mexican Army (and over a billion dollars in American aid money) to fight the drug cartels, a strategy that has resulted in more than 60,000 deaths and the disappearance of thousands.
"I can't help but think of the Mexican people who have tried to legitimately gain asylum in the United States because of the drug war—and have been turned down," says Randolph. "How can Calderón waltz in and work for Harvard?"
Eduardo Cortés Rivadeneyra, who runs a construction business in Puebla, Mexico, has started a similar petition (in Spanish). He tells Mother Jones that he felt "insulted" when he heard the news of Calderón's appointment at Harvard's Kennedy School. "I assure you that thousands of Mexicans don't want Calderón to teach in the US or anywhere else," he says.
According to a statement by Harvard Kennedy School dean David Ellwood, "President Calderón is a distinguished alumnus of the Kennedy School and is known for his efforts in Mexico to improve the economy, expand and protect public health, address the drug problem, and engage with other world leaders around shared goals." During Calderón's fellowship, students will have the opportunity to ask him "difficult questions on important policy issues," according to Ellwood's statement. Harvard Kennedy School spokesperson Molly Lanzarotta points out that the inaugural fellowship, which is designed for retiring world leaders, is a one-year position, "not a faculty teaching appointment."
Harvard isn't the first university to try to get the former Mexican president onto its campus. In 2012, Calderón was in talks with the University of Texas at Austin. Once news got out that Calderón was meeting with the university president, students and other community members staged a protest on campus, disrupting a meeting of top Mexican government officials. Ultimately, Calderón never had any follow-up discussions with the university or job offers, according to Gary Susswein, a spokesman for the university. Susswein adds that the decision-making process took place "independent of any protests."
Angelica Ortiz Garza, who doesn't have any connection with the university but started an online petition against Calderón's nomination at UT Austin, believes the protests "definitely had an impact on their decision." But unlike UT Austin, she notes, Harvard is "far from the border" and Calderón's time there as a student carries a lot of weight.
"So many tragedies occurred while he was in power, people are poorer, the country is in big debt, and there is a lot of corruption," Garza says. "Unfortunately this has been always the case in Mexico, presidents usually leave the country to work or live in a better place."

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Ban Common Sense and AR-15's Too?

I hate the propagandized ignorance of people who refuse to see the connection of an AR 15 military assault rifle with a 100 round drum magazine and the massacre of innocent kids. 

I hate the ignorance of people who can't see the "profit above human life" factor that insidiously underlies this moronic "guns versus people versus the 2nd amendment" insanity that the weapons industry spews.    


Maybe if our government threatened to ban common sense people would rush out and buy all of that up too? 

Oops, I forgot, you can't threaten to ban something that so few people have or something that can't be made profitable anyway.