Bricks in the Wall

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Silver
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Bricks in the Wall

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Mexico's former President tweeted that he is not going to pay for the wall proposed by Trump. His tweet contains a bad word that I don't want to paste here, but you can look it up if you'd like.

Well, somebody better build the wall because the Lamanites are about to tear through the Gentiles like a young lion through the flock. Lots of pictures at the link below.

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Looting, Riots In Mexico Spiral Out Of Control Over 20% Gas Hike; Hundreds Arrested

by Tyler Durden
Jan 5, 2017 5:27 PM

Four days after the first sporadic protests emerged in Mexico City, following the infamous "gasolinazo", or mandatory 15%-20% increase in Mexican gas prices which went into effect on January 1, the mood across the country has significantly deteriorated, with hundreds of demonstrators blocking highways, snarling traffic, raiding gas stations, jeopardizing critical supplies, and looting stores as angry but impotent motorists lashed out at the price surge, which is only going to get worse as inflation spikes even more following the record plunge in the Mexican Peso.

As a reminder, the price of oil rose Sunday by as high as 20.1% to 88 cents per liter, with diesel at 83 cents — the equivalent of 12 days of a minimum wage to fill a tank of gas - compared to the U.S.’s seven hours — and the price ceiling will be adjusted daily starting Feb. 18, before letting supply and demand determine them in March.

The state-owned oil company Pemex said Tuesday that blockades of fuel terminals in the states of Chihuahua, Morelos and Durango had caused a "critical situation" in distributing fuel to gas stations there. It said that if the blockades continued, it could interrupt operations at airports in Chihuahua and Baja California.

Mexicans’ collective anger over the situation is being directed mostly at President Enrique Peña Nieto, who in 2015 had promised that country’s frequent pump price hikes would end with his much-touted finance and energy reform plans. However, as a result of the plunge in oil prices , the long-awaited liberalization of the country’s energy sector which would have led to lower prices, the promised relief at the pump has yet to materialize.

Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, president Nieto called the gas price hike “painful” yet “inevitable.”

larsenb
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Maybe Trump is thinking of diverting the foreign aid we give Mexico every year to add bricks to the wall . . . . though the aid seems to be dwindling from year to year: 2010 aid was ~$750 million; 2013, $210 million and last year was $52 million.

Poor Vincente Fox . . has an apoplectic fit.

paulrobots
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With the loss of billion dollar manufacturing plants announced this week, they are already paying for it. ;)

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