{"id":1291,"date":"2008-01-10T02:24:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T06:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2008-01-10T02:24:09","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T06:24:09","slug":"aztlan-from-a-new-mexico-professor-this-goes-out-to-amy-goodman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/10\/aztlan-from-a-new-mexico-professor-this-goes-out-to-amy-goodman\/","title":{"rendered":"Aztlan: from A New Mexico professor – this goes out to Amy Goodman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Predicts ‘Hispanic Homeland’<\/strong>
\nBy The Associated Press<\/strong><\/p>\n

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. \u2014 A University of New Mexico Chicano Studies professor predicts a new, sovereign Hispanic nation within the century, taking in the Southwest and several northern states of Mexico.<\/p>\n

Charles Truxillo suggests the \u201cRepublica del Norte,\u201d the Republic of the North, is \u201can inevitability.\u201d<\/p>\n

He envisions it encompassing all of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and southern Colorado, plus the northern tier of Mexican states: Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Le\u00f3n and Tamaulipas.<\/p>\n

Along both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border \u201cthere is a growing fusion, a reviving of connections,\u201d Truxillo said. \u201cSouthwest Chicanos and Norte\u00f1o Mexicanos are becoming one people again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Truxillo, 47, has said the new country should be brought into being \u201cby any means necessary,\u201d but recently said it was unlikely to be formed by civil war. Instead, its creation will be accomplished by the electoral pressure of the future majority Hispanic population in the region, he said.<\/p>\n

Other UNM professors were skeptical<\/p>\n

Felipe Gonz\u00e1les, director of UNM’s Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, said there’s a \u201ccertain homeland undercurrent\u201d among New Mexico Hispanics who believe land was stolen and promises broken. But, he said, a new nation would need much more widespread support.<\/p>\n

\u201cEducated elites are going to have to pick up on this idea and run with it and use it as a point of confrontation if it is to succeed,\u201d Gonz\u00e1les said.<\/p>\n

Truxillo contends states have the right to secede under the Articles of Confederation of 1777, in which states retained \u201csovereignty, freedom and independence.\u201d He contends the Articles were not superseded in that regard by the U.S. Constitution and that although the Civil War settled the question militarily, it was never resolved by courts.<\/p>\n

History Professor Daniel Feller disagreed<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Constitution does supersede the Articles of Confederation,\u201d Feller said. \u201cIt takes no notice of the articles and is not presented as bearing any relation to them. The Constitution does not declare, recognize or in any way acknowledge the right to secede.\u201d<\/p>\n

And, he noted, the full title was \u201cArticles of Confederation and Perpetual Union.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.S. Supreme Court said in 1869 the union was indestructible, political science Professor Joseph Stewart said.<\/p>\n

He also said he was \u201csomewhat skeptical in the sense of minority politics\u201d about a possible Republic of the North. He said Americans of Mexican descent have moved all over the United States and that \u201cI don’t see that Hispanic population becoming more distinct but in fact becoming less distinct.\u201d<\/p>\n

Juan Jos\u00e9 Pe\u00f1a, Hispanic activist and vice chairman of the Hispanic Roundtable, said there’s not enough political consciousness among Mexican Americans to form a separate nation.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, there’s no movement capable of undertaking it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Truxillo, who teaches at UNM’s Chicano Studies Program on a yearly contract, believes it’s his job to help develop a \u201ccadre of intellectuals\u201d to think about how it can become a reality…READ THE REST HERE<\/a>
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\nDr. Charles Truxillo is a native of New Mexico. He attended public schools in Albuquerque and Belen. Dr. Truxillo received his graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of New Mexico, majoring in Latin American, Borderlands, and Asian History. Dr. Truxillo also attended St. Michael’s Catholic seminary in California. Later, he worked as an instructor in the University College of UNM, serving as director of the University College’s Social Science program from 1988 to 1990. Throughout this period Dr. Truxillo traveled extensively in Mexico, Central America, Spain, and Western Europe. Between 1992 and 1997, he was an Assistant Professor of History at New Mexico Highlands University. While at NMHI, he annually organized student tours to Mexico and sponsored student and faculty forums and symposiums. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Predicts ‘Hispanic Homeland’ By The Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. \u2014 A University of New Mexico Chicano Studies professor predicts a new, sovereign Hispanic nation within the century, taking in the Southwest and several northern states of Mexico. Charles Truxillo suggests the \u201cRepublica del Norte,\u201d the Republic of the North, is \u201can inevitability.\u201d He envisions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}