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Meet Ricardo Juarez
By Greg L | 6 April 2007 | Zapatistas, Illegal Aliens | 8 Comments
Meet Ricardo Juarez, darling of the left, and frequent spokesperson for the illegal alien apologists who is eager to smear anyone who fails to believe that all illegal aliens deserve amnesty. Lately he’s been getting a fair amount of press, but none of the reporters have wondered who this person really is, although plenty of readers have been.
After losing his job with the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History, Ricardo Juarez came to the United States in 1995 from Mexico, leaving behind his wife and children in order to gain employment and send money back home. He became a construction worker. Sometime around 2002 he founded an organization called Comite Zapatista Los Pasamontanas along with Teresita Jacinth and Patty Lopez, which was allied with an organization called the Mexico Solidarity Front, and was also a signatory on public statements by ANSWER, the radical leftist anti-war group which includes the Worker’s World Party, the Congress for Korean Reunification, International Voice Of The Proletariat, the Freedom Socialist Party, and the German Communist Party.
In case your grasp of Spanish isn’t quite comprehensive, let me translate “Comite Zapatista Los Pasamontanas” into English for you: “Zapatista Committee of the Knitted Cap”. The Zapatista movement is affiliated with an ongoing armed insurgency in several provinces of Mexico by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, or EZLN, a communist guerrilla group which has engaged in acts of terrorism throughout Mexico including bombings, political assassinations and military operations against the Mexican Army. They have their own fashion statement of sorts, which is a ski mask, or “knitted cap”, known as a Pasamontana, which they often wear during their military and political operations in order to hide their identity, and as a uniform. This group’s first public action was to support protests in Freehold, New Jersey when that city attempted to gain some control over a significant illegal alien problem, and the point man for the local illegal aliens in Freehold was a Mr. Mahronny Hildago.
At some point soon after the Freehold protests, the name “Comite Zapatista Los Pasamontanas” disappeared, and a new organization appeared called Mexicanos Sin Fronteras, which translates as “Mexicans Without Borders”, appeared. Founders of that organization, also allied with the Mexico Solidarity Network, included Teresita Jacinth, Ricardo Juarez, and Patty Lopez. The banner for Mexicanos Sin Fronteras includes a picture of Emiliano Zapata, the namesake of the Zapatista movement, and they participate in Zapatista activities such as the “other campaign”. The Mexican Solidarity Network provides financial and material assistance the EZLN and even sponsors study abroad programs for American college students to spend a few months with the EZLN getting a heavy dose of communist propaganda along with a college credit or two. As an IRS 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, the Mexican Solidarity Front collects donations on the behalf of Mexicanos Sin Fronteras, which allows donors who wish to support the Zapatista cause in this fashion to write off their contributions as tax deductions on their federal income taxes.
Mexicanos Sin Fronteras burst onto the local political scene when it organized protests at Manassas City Hall in January of 2005. Coming to support them was Mahronny Hidlago, who repaid Ricardo Juarez for his earlier assistance while the group was operating under the “Zapatista Committee of the Knitted Cap” name. In addition to calling for immediate amnesty for all illegal aliens in the United States, they’ve made a number of other interesting policy statements:
Mexican Without Borders we declared ourselves in duel, we shared our but deep pain and we expressed our unconditional solidarity with our indigenous sisters and brothers and the EZLN.
Mexican Without Borders it has formally subscribed the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandona Forest and is part of the Other Campaign that was summoned by the EZLN and that at the moment this conformed by hundreds thousand of Mexican citizens and hundreds of organizations of the civil society.
They’ve sent a representatives to address the EZLN and personally deliver these statements of support. Here’s a picture from the Mexicans Without Borders website which is described by them as their representative Arnoldo Borjas addressing the leadership of the EZLN.
Earlier this year representatives from Mexicanos Sin Fronteras attended the Zapatista’s celebration of the New Year in Mexico. Here’s a picture of what that celebration looked like:
Mr. Juarez’s actions would seem to indicate that the above picture might represent his vision of what contribution to American culture he is willing to make. Millions of illegal aliens, who after receiving amnesty can confidently exercise their First-Amendment rights to free speech, the right to bear arms, and freedom of association in order to parade about in ski masks, under the flag of a communist organization, and help diversify the American culture in new and creative ways. His rhetoric to a compliant local press always speaks of peace and respect, while his less public actions promote something which seems rather opposed to these notions.
As long as Mr. Juarez behaves in a manner consistent with the law, and by every indication he does, he certainly has the right to promote his agenda, as distasteful as it may be to many of us. We shouldn’t overlook what that agenda is when we consider his statements, however. So far that is precisely what the local press has vigorously done, which is a grave disservice to it’s readers, and to the electorate as a whole. While Mr. Ricardo Juarez freely and wrongly smears everyone opposed to his agenda as a racist bigot in the local press, someone should be calling him to account for demonstrably being a supporter of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation and an avowed communist.
My guess is that the Manassas Journal-Messenger will decline to do so.
References:
Immigrant Helps Others Adjust, reposted from the Potomac News, May 26th 2005
Antorcha Gualalupana 2002, announcement by Ricardo Juarez of Comite Zapatista Los Pasamontanas
TeamsterNet announcement of Freehold New Jersey protests, January 8th, 2004
Answering ANSWER, Cliff Lazar, February 2003
The Zapatista Connection, BVBL, July 20th, 2006
Zapatistas In Prince William Update, BVBL, November 1st, 2006
The Zapatista’s New Year, BVBL, January 6th, 2007
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All you need to know about this guy was seen in the NBC report from the other day. He called HSM a hate group, and when asked why it was a hate group, he fumbled and bumbled and was unable to say why he had that opinion. I am sure he was shocked that a reporter would ask such a question.
Ricard Juarez probaly has family members here that are ILLEGAL!
Probably not, since chain immigration rules allow family members over without the scrutiny that is applied to regular immigrants.
Do you think we could get the aliens to stay home again this May 1 as they did last year? Does anyone remember how easy it was to drive to work that day without all that traffic? That alone should have been a wake-up call to our legislators who continue to raise our taxes to “improve our roads” which, without the huge influx of immigrants, isn’t so urgent.
It is estimated that in Virginia alone there are 250,000 thousand illegals. I’d bet the majority live in the Northern VA region. Combine that with those that live in DC and the Maryland suburbs, and you are talking about a large number of folks that should not be on our roads and public transportation system.
250,000 thousand illegals has probably the same effect on traffic as 1 million people who actually know how to drive.
I’m sick and tired of these liars saying that everytime we protest illegal immigration we are racists. As an American I can’t go to Mexico illegally and declare my Mexican citizenship. I can’t go to Canada illegally and declare my Canadian citizenship. What makes them think it’s OK for them to come here illegally and break our American laws? The whole ssue had has nothing to do with being hispanic. I don’t care if your from Germany, Africa, Russia, China, etc.. or Mexico. It’s the law! The law sees no color. This whole issue personally touches me because I married an immigrant woman that moved here from Serbia and went through the proper channels and it angers me that they feel it is there right to illigeally jump ahead of all the immigrants that are going through the proper and legal steps to be an American citizen.