Jíjole mano, now they are accusing Vicente Fox, México's sitting duck president, of being a full fledged Star Spangled lover gringo. Man, that's low. News of it in Spanish here and here.

Accusing Vicente Fox of being a gringo American is like telling George W. Bush he ain't texan, though I suspect some texans would love the latter in more than a heart beat.

The mexican media left is having a ball with Vicente Fox's citizenship past. By left I mean the highly centralized news outlet known as La Jornada.

They are documenting accusations made by a mexican citizen (unknown as of yet) that Vicente Fox is in reality an American citizen and not Mexican. The Mexican Constitution stipulates that in order to be a mexican president one must be Mexican. This could easily be achieved by having either parent as a mexican. In this case, Vicente Fox supposedly filled the criteria due to his pops. Vicente Fox's mother is Basque, a Spanish citizen. Hence the hubbub at the beginning of his term that perhaps Vicente Fox would be parcial to the supposedly now non-terrorist organization known as ETA in Spain.

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Open parentisis. In unrelated but germane news, before Vicente Fox's mandate, the Mexican Constitution stipulated in Art. 82 that in order to be a mexican president one had to have mexican born parents. Mexican political paranoia has accused since then Vicente Fox's mandate as an orchestrated political maneuver. Intelectual sponsors to said machiavelian sheenanagens are former mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari and his french citizen sidekick José María Córdoba Montoya. A nefarious and shadowy character in mexican government if I ever saw one. Can't find a darn thing on him on the net. For some, by the byes, he single handed crafted NAFTA on the mexican side. Close parentisis.

This, off course, would be cause for treason and lo and behold, where it to be true, Vicente Fox would face a firing squad akin the one that Maximilian saw in his days. Yeah, that Austrian guy whose Belguian wife went mad at the news of the death of his husband.

I personally don't know if this is a de facto admission that México and the United States share more than a border, heck, at least two governers from my home state in México, Baja California, have been born in good old Califas, California for you none Xicanos. Gives jus soli a new meaning in America. Or as my good ol pal Stan Steiner says in his book, La Raza: The Mexican Americans, chapter La Junta, the motherland.

Be that as it may, it sure adds to the surreality of ongoing mexican poitics. The fact that CNN, the BBC and other major news media round the world gave television time to a political tradition in México bespeaks tons. Surreal as it may seem.

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