POLITICS ~ UNITED STATES IN MEXICO

POLITICS  ~ United States in Mexico

How does the election in the United States effect other countries?  For the last        two weeks every Saturday we have breakfast with Spanish lessons at this diner. Ruben our teacher clips newspaper articles out of the Spanish newspaper here in Mexico for us to listen to the words and repeat them along with explaining them to us in English.

Well the past two weeks it’s been focusing on how the Mexicans feel about both candidates.  You see it does affect not only the Americans but the whole world. 

There is this English newspaper here in Guadalajara that wrote an article that holds true because I am here to see it happening.  The peso fell to an historic low this past week closing at 19.96 to the U.S. dollar. 

Reasons cited for the peso decline are the continuing fall in international oil prices, speculation of an increase in U.S. interest rates and the bounce in the polls for Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for U.S. president who has vowed to deport all documented immigrants from the U.S., erect a wall along the 2,000-mile border and renegotiate or scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Mexican government officials have dismissed the Trump effect as significant reason for the peso’s decline.

Living here in Mexico and converting the American dollars to peso’s is what is helping Dan and I to survive after spending almost our whole life savings to cancer treatments here in Mexico.  The U.S. wanted to poison us with the conventional treatment.  So I am somewhat grateful to be able to live comfortably.

 Regarding the wall.  There has been a wall and fence that was started back in the 90’s, however it was never completed in some areas.  I invite you to go see the wall between California and the Tijuana Beaches.  On the side of Mexico, they have a monument with pictures of immigrants that passed through to the U.S.  It’s far from a wall but it separates the border and I must say well put together.

I do not like to post anything that is political for we all have our own opinions; however, I feel we should all check our facts and educate ourselves on each side of the fence.   There are two sides to every story.  So this election let’s not decide if we do not know all the facts.  Educate and Research for Knowledge is power.  May the best person represent us and the world.