Nothing Gringo - Mexico To Boycott U.S. Firms

It's bad enough that Mexico interferes in the internal affairs of the U.S. by encouraging illegal immigration and even supporting demonstrations in the U.S. supporting rights for illegal aliens, but to boycott American businesses is going too far.

CNN:

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) -- "The Great American Boycott" is spreading south of the border, as activists call for Mexicans to boycott U.S. businesses on May 1.

The protest is timed to coincide with a May 1 boycott of work and shopping in the United States that also has been dubbed "A Day Without Immigrants." The boycott, which grew out of huge pro-migrant marches across the United States, is designed to pressure Congress to legalize millions of undocumented people.

Mexican unions, political and community groups, newspaper columnists and even some Mexican government offices have joined the call in recent days.

"Remember, nothing gringo on May 1," advises one of the many e-mails being circulated among Internet users in Mexico.

"On May 1, people shouldn't buy anything from the interminable list of American businesses in Mexico," reads another. "That means no Dunkin' Donuts, no McDonald's, Burger King, Starbucks, Sears, Krispy Kreme or Wal-Mart."

Mexicans are biting the hand that feeds them a little too hard. As I have posted before, Mexicans think they have an inalienable right to migrate to the U.S.:

Mexico's economy, society and political system are built around the assumption that migration and amnesties for undocumented migrants will continue — and that the $20 billion they send home every year will keep coming, and almost certainly grow.

In fact, the government is counting on continued cash from a Mexican-born U.S. population it predicts will rise from 11 million to between 17.9 million and 20.4 million by 2030.

[. . .]

President Vicente Fox is one of many Mexican who considers the migrants "heroes," because they send money to their impoverished home villages, and in some cases risk death walking into America in pitiless desert sun.

The American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico has warned that by tying the Mexican "Nothing Gringo" campaign to the May 1 "Day Without Immigrants" boycott in the United States Mexicans and the orginizers of the demonstration supporting rights for illegal aliens are risking a backlash.

The Chamber of Commerce is right. Many will see the Nothing Gringo boycott of America businesses for what it is - blatant anti-Americanism. I certainly do.

UPDATE: It has been suggested that an appropriate response would be a Cinco de Mayo boycott.

Comments

[el güero]

Other way around: the US is biting the hand that feeds it--cheap labor from México is and has been a backbone of the US economy for decades, and the US interferes in Mexican politics a hell of a lot more than vice versa, cabrón!

On the point of migration, there's no legitimate reason anyone should be denied the right to migrate, permenantly or temporarily, wherever he or she pleases. If corporations are free to move their factories and their money all around the world looking for cheap labor, there's no reason to prevent people from doing the same looking for a decent life. Trying to deny Mexicans the right to enter the US is particularly questionable in light of the manner in which the US "acquired" half of México through conquest.

Perhaps the best response to a piece as ignorant as yours is, as Molotov put it, "¡Vive México cabrones!"

[Javier Loria]

C'mon why r u people get in to a war mexican vs usa we all are brothers so let finish whit this and not all mexicans are like the imigrants i am not saying that their are bad doing things but all americans think's that all the mexicans sell's tacos and got boots and listen only ranchero music but thats not true so let finish whit the Stereotypes and stop boycoting things,,:)

[Pedro]

Well with all your Dirty Poltitcians taking bribes from your good ole Cartials, and the way they control you, by shooting up all your People, you can talk Smack! Yea I like the way you say your going to boycott the USA on may 1, thats going to be a great day for us! We will have clean air and no snail tracks on our streets that we paid for. You say you clean and do all the other Crap jobs for us? Well not for to long, with the fences you wont be able to get your Familys no wait cockroaches over here. The only mexican or mohow i know is on welfere and public housing, and when you talk about taking over, there wont be any thing to take over you Idiot. If your country is so Great why dont you stay there? Because you dont have the balls to stay. Fuck all of you! Have a Great day in the slums!!

[Junior]

VIVA MEXICO!! VIVA AMERICA LATINA!!!!!!!!!
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ABAIXO O IMPERIALISMO YANKEE DE MERDA!!!!!!!!

[bob in exile]

The best thing the immigrants could do with that 20 billion a year bankroll would be to buy Euros before the American economy collapses. Oh!! is it going to collapse because of immigrants? Noooo!! It will collapse because of the greedy politicians the U.S. Citizens put in office.
Lets see.... shall we send billions to reconstruct Iraq?? Oh Yes...our bosom buddies (who have oil)...shall we reconstruct New Orleans...Oh No ! they do nothing for capitalism... !!
You cant say Im not buying anything in America because everything there is made in CHINA... Boy are you a bunch of dummies !!

[Reid Baer]

That means NO TACOS !

;)

Check out this vid:

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[Proud Mexican]

Well person under me; yes im talking directly to you. You only see the ignorance us mexicans have. Yes we tend to talk alotta smack. But most of us are more classy than you think. And ill give you reasons for us to be in this country/
1.We build&& clean for yall
2.We do the dirty work yall cant do
3.We are very friendly
4.We were in the southern land first!
And it pisses me off to think MOST OF THE ARMY SOLDIERS ARE MEXICAN!WE FIGHT FOR A COUNTRY WHO DOESNT EVEN WANT US!
like george lopez says
the most they can deport is 2.1 million mexicans; THAT AINT SH*T! THATS 7 QUINCEANERAS AND 2 WEDDINGS!.. weve almost already tooken over the southern america.. too late to deport us; and almost everyone who gets deported finds their way back!.
thats my view... oh.. and this "nothing gringo day" isnt true... my family is the most beaner famiy and we dont even do that. VIVA LA RAZA!! AAHHHOOOOOAAAHHH

[ALL-AMERICAN AMERICAN]

Just look at all the Mexican swine on this blog, writing like complete idiots. I'm not an expert in Spanish, but even I can tell that they lack a complete understanding of their own native language.
'Pinche' this, 'puto' that; it's the only words that Mexicans know, it seems.

Carolina, you got that from a poster. It's a nice sounding political message, but it's historically inaccurate. You see, Mexicans are, for the most part, decedents of Aztecs and Spaniards. Mexico as we know today is twice as large as the Aztec Empire was - none of which encompassed the present-day borders of the United States. The United States is as much the Mexican homeland as France is the British homeland. It's not, but if you have a decent knowledge of history - which I doubt - you would see the similarities. Your homeland is in the country in which you were born. Nothing justifies Mexico's exportation of their poverty, just so the Mexican government can ignore social issues. We are your superiors but not your babysitters!

El Alter, the United States was built by immigrants, true, but it's already built. The USA hands out the most citizenship's in the world, nearly equaling the rest of the world combined. Why should Mexicans have priority to enter our country as opposed to someone from an actually poor country, not just one with widespread inequality? Prior to World War II, we had very few illegal immigrants, and yet managed to the lead the world in standard of living. I'm sure we'd manage without you.

he, correction: You're just dumb. You're welcome.

latvian, Viva Mexico? What is there to have any national pride about? Are you seriously proud to be Mexican?! I am equally proud NOT to be Mexican.

;)

Cheers from Del Norte, the better side of the border.

[pepe]

Love your writing... full of ignorance and hate... i jsut love the way i can laugh at it all day... and by the way... your imagination may take you far someday but it would be also a good idea to live in the real world beyond your state, =) thanks again for the funny bunch of ignorant facts ;.... and if you ever stand on the biggest city among the world... dont let let your brains crash down.. u just got to Mexico City... cheers

[Trigg]

stupid dirty spics. your country is so dirty and disgusting that you all are dying of the swine flu. fuck mexico and its peice of shit citizens. this country WAS founded by immmigrants. but it was founded by the WHITE man. the difference?? mexicans are dirty and greesy disgusting slobs they will never do anything more then bust their ass there whole life for us. cause guess what you all work for the white man hahaha and you know its true. so one more time.... FUCK YOU! YEAH YOU!! YOU DIRTY SPIC

[Erik]

Please whata kind of stupid evil could think in that way, i am an european white mexican who has travell all over the world and i consider that hate is coused by ignoranrance and mental poverty. Mexicans are very different people, to be honnest i love my country i have seen the entire world and that allows me to recognice that México is an amazing place full of alternatives, i defenetly couldn´t even try to live into the biggest alienate country in the world if our people have to go up there is becouse the economical possibility buth our cultural roots will be always stronger than capitalism.
Best Regards to all nice smart american and mexican people.

Viva Mexico Cabrones y a todos los pinches gringos jijos de la verga que que nos odian, me da gusto que hemos recuperado nuestro territorio, jajajaja.......... we all belong to the entire world, not only to North America. Mexicans have build the states as all emigrants..

[SPEAKEASY]

They sure have helped california glad there here more crime drugs and they realy suck us dry glad we could help this worthless infestation of leaches to hell with the mexican flag
there runing our state into the ground

[THE ANTI-mexicans]

Mexico is the stinky ass of the united states and the cloaca of the world, so why you mexicanitos don't go back to your fucking country to say viva mexico you don't even have common sense and don't be angry cause it's true.....f...you all.

[FANNY]

DUDE!!! DONT BE STUPID!!!! MEXICANS WONT LOOSE!!! YOU GUYS ECONOMY WILL, WELL YOU GUYS ARE SUCKS, DONT UNDERSTAND, GOT NO BRAIN RIGHT??? FUCK THE GRINGOS!!
AND GUESS WHAT YOU BITCH, WE ALL ARE AMERICANS BECAUSE WE ALL LIVES HERE IN THE CONTINENT.

POBRES GRINGOS PENDEJOS.

[Mayra]

Who ever wrote this is obviously rich or something, you dont know how it is to live in a country where jobs are scarce. Duh they are considered heroes wouldnt you if your father went to a different country (oh wait your family prob did immigrate.. so arent you grandparents immigrates??)risking his life for you to have food on your table and so you could wear your brand named clothes obvioulsy you take everything for granted and dont realize that many people are in need and illegal or not they are willing to do anything for their family! Educate yourself the Mexican gov. doesnt encourage people to illegally immigrate but obviously you wouldnt know that because you dont watch what the mexican government has to say right? Just to update u though they try to stop people from coming because of the deaths that occur while crossing and if mexicans in the US want to protest they dont need the mexican gov for support get the right, they got plenty of Mexican American Citizens like myself, Polish, Indians etc for that. Even if americans did boycott the mexican restaurants etc., that would still affect the American economy intelligent one thats just hurting the country you dumbass wow before you post anything else get well informed!! PINCHES PENDEJOS!!!

[Francisco Reyes]

Um first of all the people that would actually follow thru wit dis boycott are prolly racist who dont eat at mexican resturants anyways so it wont hav no effect nyways. Plus look at how many mexicans are in the U.S. illegal and legal which do you think will more affect.

[arturo]

pinches gringos puletas namas se creen grandes atras de un teclado si me estuvieras biendo de frene hasta me chuparias el pene con tal de que no te hiciera nada su pinche pais que namas se quieren hacer los bergas

fuck the gringos¡¡¡
gringos=stupid bitch girl

puro mexicano loko bandido

[MARIA DE LA CONCHITA GUADALUPE]

PINCHES ARDILLAS AL BOSQUE! POBRES PENDEJOS!!!! JAJAJA YA QUISIERAN IMBECILES

[MARIA DE LA CONCHITA GUADALUPE]

PINCHES ARDILLAS AL BOSQUE! POBRES PENDEJOS!!!! JAJAJA YA QUISIERAN IMBECILES

[Abelardo Gutierrez]

Well, for starters, mexican restaurants on the 'Greatest country in the world' (ha ha ha ha) are part of YOUR economy, we dont get any profit out of a restaurant with the word TACO or MEXICAN on it... So, you would be helping the May 1th movement, the very same resason of this article.

Mexican goverment do not supports illegal migration, but do not espect us to be very happy for all of the death mexicans trying to cross the border, or the racisism on your country against our people (racisism that, im glad to say, it's not found on mexico).

Ilegal migrators usually dont have a chance to survive on our country, things are very diffrent 'round here, very few people, out of our total population, are blessed with a hard working family or an advantaged economic status.

Finally, If people wanna 'boycot your resataurants' it is not because they want to destroy your economy, a few restaruants wouldn do the work, for as much as we wished to, it is just a way of saying:

We are not happy, give our people their rights, they are people too.

P.S. I did not used any kind of rough language in this post because I wanted people to read it and find it an intelligent comment and not an insult...
But you crossed our flag... you crossed the Mexican Flag's Shield...
We do not Burn your flag or cross it. I dont care if you are racist, or if you hate just mexicans, or if you just wanted to look interesting by crossing our flag, but here in mexico, That's Jail, and to be Honest, it is very insulting.

If this had happened here, Me crossing your Flag, man... This would have made it to the papers.

You guys are not the most important, nor powerful country in the world, I assume that you know that by now, so think about that the next time you try to do something like this.

Peace

Viva Mexico.

[Juan]

the boycott in mexico, was created by fool people, you dont have to belive of this..but please leave the mexicans restaurants out of this...im mexican, and i tell you that we go tu USA because here are margination everywere, so we ant support our families...unfortunatly.

May/5...Puebla's battle, we defeated the french army, the best army in the world in that time, by we, the worstest army in america, so..thats because we celebrate it. So don't mock of mexico.

P.D. The bushpesos are a mock of mexico, bush dont like immigrants..but he souldn't mock of we.

Thats my viewpoint.

any question or agrgument let me know, send me a mail to [email protected] ty.
=)

[Damian]

Gringo go home.,,and return us the lands that you robbed us,

VIVA PANCHO VILLA UNICO INVASOR DE EUA

PANCHO VILLA THE ONE WHO INVADED EUA

[PANCHO VILLA]

VIVA MEXICO CABRONES. GRINGO LOS MEXICANOS NO SOMOS ILEGALES RECUERDA ESTO ES AZTLAN.

[Latvian]

Viva Mexico!!!

[he]

your just dumb

[El Alter]

Boycott mexican Restaurants on Cinco de Mayo go ahead you don't realize that Mexicans and all Other Hispanic-Latin minorities are a GREAT part of american economy and they will always be as long as there's asswholes like you who don't want the jobs we are left do do U should get Ur History Straight This Country was founded on Immigrants Some of this country was Mexican territory and U will never be able to function correctly as a country without us because we are this country

[alicia]

i dont want to even read that but i have something to say.

wow i find it super retarded that you would boycott a fucking Mexican restaurant when all MMexicans should be out there boycotting their jobs. Fuck America is dumb. & it keeps getting dumber.

[PANCHO VILLA]

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[Carolina]

If you think im illegal because im MEXICAN LEARN True History Because Im In HOMELAND!!!!