Nuevo Leon’s Independence Push – When Being Right Isn’t Enough
Back in April, when the Texas Nationalist Movement announced our intention to extend assistance to independence movements in Northern Mexico, the media response was predictable. Like trained seals barking for fish, they performed their usual routine. “There are no independence movements in Mexico!” they proclaimed with their trademark smug certainty.
Fast forward to today, and Nuevo Leon is making international headlines with its push toward independence, led by figures like Gilberto Lozano who has spearheaded efforts to organize a public consultation on the issue. The opposition media finds itself in an uncomfortable position – caught between their knee-jerk denunciation of anything related to independence and the reality unfolding before their eyes. However, being right isn’t enough. What’s happening in Nuevo Leon deserves more than a simple “I told you so.”
The truth is that the situation in Nuevo Leon mirrors what we’re seeing in Texas in ways that the establishment media either can’t or won’t acknowledge. Like Texas, Nuevo Leon is an economic powerhouse that’s tired of being treated like a piggy bank for a dysfunctional central government. The numbers tell the story. Nuevo Leon, with its industrial heart in Monterrey, generates a disproportionate share of Mexico’s GDP, yet sees a fraction of those resources returned for local…