Mexico asks for land back

Guzman: Only asking to be polite

MEXICO CITY (RWN) - The Mexican Empire would like the land it gave to the United States in 1852 back. And it's prepared to take it by force, if necessary, Mexican Empire Chancellor Juan Guzman said today.

"The lands south of the Gila River in Arizona and New Mexico are culturally and socially with the Mexican Empire," Guzman said in an address to the empire's legislative body. "They share with us a lineage, a history and a common goal: to better themselves."

The 30 million acres that make up southern Arizona and New Mexico were sold to the United States government in the Gadsden Purchase of 1852. Many in the United States felt that the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, in which Mexico ceded Texas to America, was a raw deal for the Mexicans, and approved of spending $10,000,000 for the vast desert acreage included in the Gadsden Purchase.

Over the years, Phoenix became a regional economic powerhouse, but was turned into a charnel house by a 2016 Islamic States biological warfare offensive that will render the city uninhabitable for the 50 years.

"Guzman made a shrewd move asking for only the Gadsden lands back," wrote Webb Painter, a Tucson, Ariz.-based critic of the ISA government and author of "The Old Pueblo" blog. "Since 2016, the only real economic development has been south of the Gila River, in Tucson and Safford and Yuma."

The area that Guzman is asking for has a majority Hispanic population, thanks in large part to unchecked migration from Mexico and Central American during the waning days of the old regime.

It's also predominantly Catholic and has been the scene of numerous protests against Islamic authorities.

Three years ago, a protest by farm workers for better pay in Dona Ana County, N.M., turned bloody when the Islamic county administrator called in police to break up the rally. Seven people were arrested and 30 went to the hospital in the wake of police intervention. Protests have been held in Albuquerque, Tucson, Ariz., and Yuma, Ariz., since then, all of them ending with some violence.

"Guzman's smart," Painter wrote in his blog. "He knows that if he can figure out a way to save the ISA's face, he'll get some land that is a pain for this country, where most of the citizens don't want to live under Islamic rule, anyway."

But a deal may not happen quickly, if it ever happens at all.

"Chancellor Guzman is entitled to his opinion, certainly," said Absalom Williams, a spokesman for President-for-Life Kingsley. "But he is sorely mistaken if he believes that the forces of Islam will not fight tooth and nail for every inch of this nation's soil."

A military fight along the southern border would present a problem for an ISA army that's already taxed to the extreme. Two of the Army's six infantry divisions and two of the Army's three armored divisions are in Deseret, trying to restore Utah and parts of Colorado to Muslim rule. Two more infantry divisions and the remaining armored divisions are assigned permanent duty along the Bible Belt border.


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