A while back, I saw a video where it was mentioned that industrial capitalism was "Mordor Economics", as opposed to "Hobbit economics", which would be community-based, cooperative, that of communes, gift economies, and the like. It would be natural, then, to go ahead and call the anglozionist empire as "Mordor", and it wouldn't be too far from the truth. For one thing, it kind of looks like Mordor. Also, they are actually developing a surveillance system called Palantir, pretty much fully owning the evil that they are. Generally, I am tempted to use the term Mordor to refer to the anglozionist occupation of North America.
But as a mexican I cannot do this, because we already have a Mordor at home. It would be too confusing having two different places called Mordor (and, in fact, there are three zionist countries in the world, all of which would nicely fit the name Mordor if you think about it). So I will have to refrain from using that name to refer to our northern neighbours. No worries, I remember once I saw a documentary about life in the US, it was called Mad Max, so I guess I can say "The land of Mad Max"?
So what do we call Mordor here in Mexico? The answer is EdoMex, which is short for "Estado de Mexico", which translates to "The State of Mexico." Allow me to clear the confusion. The word "state" here doesn't mean the body of political institutions governing the country, but rather, a specific administrative region. It is actually close to what is called a "state" in the land of Mad Max, such as California, New Mexico, Texas, all of which are actually mexican states occupied by anglozionist invaders.
EdoMex got the nickname of Mordor a few years back, precisely when it was being governed by the man who would later become our last neoliberal president, Enrique Peña Nieto, under whose administration it became one of the states with the highest crime rates, as well as one where feminicide was rampant. But the "Mordorification" of EdoMex isn't really the single achievement of a neoliberal governor, or of neoliberalism itself (at least, not directly), but simply a natural consequence of demographic movements in the central valley of Mexico. EdoMex has always been a place of high criminality, and so the name Mordor actually came quite naturally to it.
Now here's the interesting part: Mexico City is not really a city.
"Lay off the drugs", you might say at this point. We've all seen Mexico City on tv, especially now that they've just hosted the world cup. It certainly looks a lot better than any city in the anglozionist north, bar none. On what grounds do you come now and say that it is not actually a city?
Well, Mexico City is not the whole city, and it is not all a city. The northern half of the political entity called "Mexico City" is, indeed, the better part of the city, but not all of it, the rest of it being in the immediately adjacent areas belonging to Edomex. At the same time, the southern part of Mexico City (or CDMX) is not at all a city. If you were to ask a person living in Milpa Alta whether they live in the city, they would say they don't even though they know they live in the region called "Mexico City". So, Mexico City is not the whole city, and it is not entirely a city. Do you think that is interesting? I do.
The southern part of Mexico City is made up of several different parts. There are large extensions of land used for farming, with towns scattered all about the place, which of course are not technically called towns, but something like "neighbourhoods" (colonias, which of course doesn't mean a colony, but, the smallest political subdivision of the city, a bit larger than a neighbourhood proper.) There is an interesting place called "El Desierto de los Leones", "The Desert of Lions", which is not a desert, but mostly woodland. There is, of course, Xochimilco, where the world-famous "Chinampas" are located, which is a large region used for farming. It is not land, though, but actually large floating structures floating on what used to be the lake on top of which Mexico City would be built.
Yes, the center of the city is mostly built on top of a lake, making it actually quite vulnerable, as everybody knows, to earthquakes. I am sure you have seen the Palace of Belles-Artes at some point. What you might not know from just looking at it, is that it is so heavy, it is sinking at the rate of about 2cm per year! (that is, about an inch, for people who haven't caught up with science.)
Now, back to Edomex. North (and west and east) of the main metropolitan area, is where the city has been growing. Some part of Edomex is, then, an extension of Mexico City. Most of the people living there have actually came from all over the country. They are not really natives from Mexico City, but immigrants from other states. As I said, they are the product of demographic movements over the years, as people have migrated to the city looking for job opportunities. They are what we call "chilangos". If you've ever seen the product of these demographic movements in your own countries, you would already know these are places of much poverty and high criminality, and for most of the city-adjacent parts of Edomex, this is largely true. Of course, there are exceptions, and there are also very dangerous slums right in the heart of mexico city as well, the most famous (but not the only one) being Tepito. But some neighbourhoods (we call them barrios) in Edomex are particularly famous for being really dangerous: Naucalpan, Ecatepec, Ciudad Neza (aka Mi-Nezota, aka la ciudad de los rascasuelos.) Another characteristic of these places is their high population density. The urban parts of Edomex are actually the most densely populated areas of "the city". It is also in Edomex, interestingly, where the government has set up cable cars as a form of public transportation. Edomex, more than being merely a poor outgrowth of the city, is a place where much development has taken place, and where millions of families carry out actually rather decent livelihoods, as I have witnessed many times.
Now, a great deal of the people residing in Edomex actually work in the city itself. Every morning, and every evening, the subway and bus networks that connect the neighbourhoods of edomex with Mexico City proper are filled with commuters going to and back from work. They are by and large the workforce that moves so much of the city's economy. Public transportation in some of these routes is also famously dangerous, where transport vans are often assaulted by robbers taking people's money and phones at gun point. I have been lucky, once having taken this transportation with something like 3 iPhones in my backpack without any incidents. For most of the people who live there, this is already known to be a common occurence, to the point that people actually buy "decoy" phones that don't actually work, so that the robbers take that one instead of the real one. I once bought one of those, not knowing that I was buying pretty much a brick. It was, of course, cheap as fuck.
I had wanted to write this post for a while already, particularly the "mexico city is not a city" part. It is one of those things that I find so interesting about the city where I grew up. Beyond this, however, I've been meaning to write some posts talking about Mexican lore. I guess you could say I want to share my culture, and, having just hosted the world cup and being in the screens of people from all over the world, this is a good time to do so. There is so much to our country, good things, but also of course bad things. Right now everybody sees the good, and that's nice, but there is also bad stuff, and I am not going to shy away from that. Anglozionists depict Mexico as a dangerous place run by cartels, but this is actually quite far from the truth. It used to be, when we had a certain neoliberal president. And cartels are actually financed and armed by the anglozionists, so it's no surprise that is what *they* see.
But here, I just want to share some of the stuff about our culture that I find interesting myself. Perhaps only me. But it's my blog.