{"id":11248,"date":"2018-06-27T17:23:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T00:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11248"},"modified":"2018-06-27T17:23:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T00:23:05","slug":"mexico-what-went-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/mexico-what-went-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico \u2014 What Went Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"site-content\">\n<div id=\"primary\" class=\"content-area\">\n<article id=\"post-607826\" class=\"article-single post-607826 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-immigration category-politics-policy category-world tag-democrats tag-free-trade tag-mexico section-article\" data-component=\"articleView\">\n<div class=\"section-content--full\">\n<div class=\"section-content--primary\">\n<div class=\"article-content\"><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\">Mexico gets a massive cash influx in remittances, American corporations get cheap labor, Democrats get voters . . .<\/span><span class=\"drop\">M<\/span>exico in just a few days could elect one of its more anti-American figures in recent memory, Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador.<\/p>\n<p>Obrador has often advanced the idea that a strangely aggrieved Mexico has the right to monitor the status of its citizens living illegally in the United States. Lately, he trumped that notion of entitlement by assuring fellow Mexicans that they have a \u201chuman right\u201d to enter the United States as they please. For Obrador, this is an innate privilege that he promised \u201cwe will defend\u201d \u2014 without offering any clarification on the meaning of \u201cdefend\u201d other than to render meaningless the historic notion of borders and sovereignty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/06\/mexico-what-went-wrong-economy-based-on-exporting-poor-people\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Mexico gets a massive cash influx in remittances, American corporations get cheap labor, Democrats get voters . . .Mexico in just a few days could elect one of its more anti-American figures in recent memory, Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador. Obrador has often advanced the idea that a strangely aggrieved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[220,847,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Vq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4109,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/what-to-expect-from-mexico-in-2011\/","url_meta":{"origin":11248,"position":0},"title":"What to Expect From Mexico in 2011","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 8, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Ricochet.com We will see more of the same in 2011 in Mexico. 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