Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Sam Aronow"
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@AztlanHistorian No olvides a tu Octavio Paz.
I live in a working class (poor) neighborhood. It is strongly PAN. When the Morena candidate for our town’s president came to campaign, he was accompanied by a squad of La Guarda Nacional. It was unnecessary, but the people certainly noted the atmosphere created by the presence of soldiers, setting up a perimeter around the campito where Morena held their rally. I wouldn’t say people were angry, but they were not receptive to a party that arrived in this way. All of the rally attendees were imported from other colonias.
I’m not a Mexican citizen and I don’t support any particular party. But I worry about a “people’s party” that would use such tactics. When PAN or PRI has their campaign stops, they don’t bring soldiers. They bring packages of food for the poor. A kilo of rice, a few kilos of frijoles, a bottle of cooking oil. It’s almost nothing, but I think the people appreciate the gesture. They give the children cheap backpacks and pencil cases.
Maybe it’s the overall political environment that caused Morena to show up in my humble colonia with soldiers. They do it “just in case”. But it also tells me that the local Morena is not engaging with the poor people, even if they are the “populist” party.
What troubles me is how many of my friends in the colonia take pride in not voting. Maybe it’s is true that nothing will change when a different party comes into power, but I fear that if the right to vote is not exercised, the right can be lost.
I was not impressed with AMLO. I hope Sheinbaum does a better job.
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@SamAronow The head tilt is part of it and they can’t teach that in an app. 😂
Sam, my brother, somos angelenos, somos hijos de la Reina de Los Angeles. ¡Te abrazo!
When I was a toddler, I had a Mexican babysitter, an abuelita from down the block. So at the same time I was learning my native tongue English, Spanish was constantly filtering in. I don’t even remember her name or of which of the families she was the grandmother, but I remember a nice lady teaching me “manzana”, “naranja”, y “durazno”.
I took Spanish as my elective throughout primary, secondary, and college. I still recall some of the lessons, but at the time, I can’t say they helped me learn to speak the language.
No, the way I learned to speak Spanish initially was buying drugs around Pico & Hoover during the 80s, before crack took over. You could get better deals from the Guatemalan guys selling dime bags, 1/8ths, and 1/4s. Plus it was fun to nonchalantly hang out, exchanging pleasantries and shooting the breeze instead of being scared little yt boys eager to score and split.
However, I did not really learn to speak Spanish (Mexican Spanish) until I moved to Mexico. I moved to a rancho in the rural space between Dolores Hidalgo and San Miguel de Allende. I learned how much I didn’t know when I plopped myself down in a village where almost nobody spoke English, and then I learned enough to survive, then to function, and then to where I am now, over a dozen years later, able to function and sometimes converse.
I lived in this rancho for a year, until I met a gal in town and we decided to shack up. Then we decided to unshack after a few months and I found my current apartment in a working class neighborhood. That unfortunately has been gentrifying and gringo-fying lately. Ni modo.
I guess I was in L.A. for a funeral and visiting while you were in CDMX. I hope that someday our paths cross. Hit me up if you ever visit the state of Guanajuato. I’m in SMA, and it would be an honor to offer you hospitality, my brother Angeleno.
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