Why Mexicans Fear 2010

Forget 2012. As far as many Mexicans are concerned, the ancient Mayas were being generous: the sky's actually going to fall next year. Why? Because it's 2010, Mexico's bicentennial, and Mexican history has an eerie way of repeating itself. Mexico's 1910 centennial, after all, saw the start of the bloody, decade-long Mexican Revolution, which killed more than a million people. And that cataclysm was precisely a century after the start of Mexico's bloody, decade-long War of Independence in 1810.

You get the picture. As a result, there's been no shortage of talk lately about possible unrest, especially in the form of armed rebel groups, erupting south of the border in 2010. But is there really a basis for concern? None as apparent as the popular grievances that existed in 1809 or 1909. But this is still Mexico; and while Spanish colonizers no longer oppress the country, and dictators like Porfirio Diaz aren't brutalizing campesinos, the country nonetheless is reeling from the worst criminal violence in its history and one of its hardest economic slumps. "We are very near a social crisis," JosÉ Narro, the director of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City, said recently. "The conditions are there."

My Summary

What I think about this prediction about the Mexcians going to a brutal death or war is pretty uncertain. I dont think its going to happen there really isn't any recent news about the Mexican people going through some tough times. Well they always have problems but if you think about it all the gangs for example the Zetas they are a pretty big gang that are even coming to this country that we live in. Maybe the big war or death they are talking about will be from the Zetas or many other gangs. What if they want to go to war with the U.S and maybe start some big controversy that will end up in killing alot of people. But we will never know until 2010 which is going to be in ummm 9 hours. Pretty cool.