{"id":315197,"date":"2017-06-30T11:34:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T10:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/not-your-typical-mexican-politician\/"},"modified":"2017-06-30T11:34:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T10:34:42","slug":"not-your-typical-mexican-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/not-your-typical-mexican-politician\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Your Typical Mexican Politician"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>When recalling notorious Mexican politicians, a string of populists, socialists, and fame-seeking warlords come to mind; each one elevated to worshipful status because of how they addressed a manufactured crisis. You know, because people of the plundering ilk write the official history books. It\u2019s the same reason that people list the biggest thieves and warmongers as the \u201cbest\u201d U.S. presidents.\u00a0 Consequently, many have heard names like Benito Juarez, Pancho Villa, and Miguel Hidalgo. But, few have heard of Lucas Alam\u00e1n.<\/p>\n<p>Benito Juarez is revered for ending the widespread church practice in Mexico of settling disputes amongst its members in private courts. He turned the function over to the state. Juarez is also praised for implementing the \u201cLaw of Nationalization of the Ecclesiastical Wealth\u201d which seized church property.<\/p>\n<p>Priest Miguel Hidalgo was defrocked for violating his vows by fathering several illegitimate children and raising an army to sack propertied Spaniards. He is, of course, revered for this life of service.<\/p>\n<p>Alam\u00e1n, to the contrary, supported private courts and the church\u2019s dispute-resolution functions. He saw the church as performing an important function in Mexican life that should not be usurped by the state. He also strongly opposed the plunder and destruction wreaked upon Mexico by Father Hidalgo\u2019s 100,000-man roving mob.\u00a0 He refused to believe that Father Hidalgo\u2019s bloody campaign was necessary to bring a peaceful independence from Spain saying that it was a \u201cmonstrous merging of religion with murder, plunder, and screams of death and desolation that I heard thousands of times in my youth and that I still hear as a dreadful echo in my ears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmi-gold-silver.com\/blog\/buy-old-us-gold-coins\/?utm_source=LRC_Text_Ad&amp;utm_campaign=buy_old_us_coins\">Time to buy old US gold coins<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>He criticized Hidalgo for supposedly trying to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/06\/david-hathaway\/not-typical-mexican-politician\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When recalling notorious Mexican politicians, a string of populists, socialists, and fame-seeking warlords come to mind; each one elevated to worshipful status because of how they addressed a manufactured crisis. You know, because people of the plundering ilk write the official history books. It\u2019s the same reason that people list the biggest thieves and warmongers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-315197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}