Said In Spanish Series
On April 28th, 2019, Spain held an election. No party won a majority, but the incumbent PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party) won a plurality. In fifth place was the right-wing traditionalist nationalist party Vox, which got 10.3 percent of the vote and broke into Spain’s lower house of parliament, seating 24 representatives. Vox is an […]
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This Said in Spanish report contains seven items from Mexico, most of them about the “caravans”. The seven items: I. President AMLO says the Central American migrants must be registered in Mexico. II. AMLO still refuses to criticize Trump. III.Pope giving Mexican Catholic Church Half a Million Dollars to Help Migrants. IV. Mexican Interior Minister […]
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It’s now been 500 years since Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes arrived to Veracruz, Mexico. On April 21st, 2019, Cortes and his ships arrived to the island of San Juan de Ulua, right off Veracruz. The next day, April 22nd, 2019, the Spaniards went ashore. Thus began their conquest of the Aztec Empire, which fell on […]
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The Puerto Rican question arises again. In Congress, a proposal for rapid Puerto Rican statehood has been introduced. A recent National Review piece called for Puerto Rican statehood, with a bizarre justification for it. In all fairness to National Review, they did allow a rebuttal to be published a few days later. As for myself, […]
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Each year a Mexican NGO comes out with a list of the world’s most murderous cities in the previous year. Click here for my report on the 2017 list. This year, Mexico had 15 cities on the list. The United States had 4 cities on the list, plus one Puerto Rico (a U.S. territory). Brazil […]
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My latest Said in Spanish installment has four topics: 1. LA Mayor Eric Garcetti visits Mexico and hobnobs with Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard. 2 A Truck Tragedy in Mexico and Central American Illegal Alien Routes 3. In Mexico’s Veracruz state, a Mexican Education Official Dismissed, and Why 4. La Opinion and Univision Report Chinese […]
Mexico’s new President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known by initials AMLO, has been in office since December 1st. AMLO has a good relationship with Trump and refuses to criticize the American president. Nevertheless, we can probably expect future meddling in the U.S. by the AMLO administration. It’s hard for a Mexican administration to avoid it. […]
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Some Central Americans (mostly Hondurans) in the “caravan” made it to Piedras Negras, Mexico (across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas), planning to enter the United States. It didn’t work for most of them, but may yet, somewhere on the border. We neeed to get control of the border. To read the article, click here. […]
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Latest Said in Spanish Installment: I. Gabriel Quadri in Mexico, and interesting things he’s said. II. La Opinion reported an illegal alien who committed identity fraud and voted illegally. III. U.S. designated at dangerous to women. IV. AMLO still won’t criticize Trump. For the entire article, click here. Article by Allan Wall, published February 14th, […]
President Trump delivered the 2019 State of the Union address, and Stacey Abrams delivered the Democratic response. Well, the English-language Democratic response. There was also a Spanish-language Democratic response, although technically it wasn’t a “response” as it was released before Trump even spoke. But no matter, we already know the Democrats are against Trump. But […]