The Most Hated Gringo in the World Report - 7

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Throughout my time living in Mexico, I've been hinting at the impression, and that's all it's been until now, an impression, that the Gringolandizing of San Miguel de Allende was not a happenstance accident. So many of my faithful and devoted fans have sent me such seething, venom-spitting support telling me, among many things, how I am the most hated Gringo in the World and that of all the Gringos who have ever crossed the border, the mighty and magnificent Gringolandians have dubbed me the most ill-informed.

One of the many things that has inspired their Tacos of Wrath has been my gall for suggesting that the Gringolandizing of San Miguel de Allende, of which the Gringolandians contribute each time they lay down a million or two dollars for overpriced houses, is a concerted, organized, and Cultural Imperialistic Effort. It is not a bunch of old people who come for a circumstantial weekend and end up with a new house in their Investment Portfolio. They are wooed and here are the facts. It's no longer hearsay…the truth is in.

Aspen-based developer Bald Mountain is just one of many of those who see only dollar signs and how to increase their bank accounts with more them. These are the guys who could care less about Mexican language and culture. These are the guys who would transform the Mexican country into something very American and they are doing just that.

"For some time, the land stretching from Calle Cardo to Calle Nueva, that was once part of the Instituto Allende with houses and a hotel, then became a holding of the Aristos Hotels, has been undergoing changes. Now it is to be a US$234-million luxury resort and residential community named Rosewood, and ground was broken on June 28 by Aspen-based developer Bald Mountain. The city has benefited in various ways." (http://www.infosma.com/newexciting/8-7-21.htm#3)

Do not miss this point: Who exactly is saying that the city of SMA has benefited in many ways? The Mexicans of SMA, the street vendors, the owners of the mom-and-pop stores?

And, do not miss THIS point: For five years, I've been talking to SMA store workers, cab drivers, hotel maids, bus station maids and janitors, and it has been from them I have been gathering the rising discontent about how the Gringos are buying their town. And, let me tell you; that's exactly what the organized American Real Estate Conglomerates have in mind: To hell with language and culture, we want money.

"For some time, the land stretching from Calle Cardo to Calle Nueva, that was once part of the Instituto Allende with houses and a hotel, then became a holding of the Aristos Hotels, has been undergoing changes. Now it is to be a US$234-million luxury resort and residential community named Rosewood, and ground was broken on June 28 by Aspen-based developer Bald Mountain." (Ibid)

I've been saying this for over five years that SMA's Gringolandia was not just a few elderly folks coming for week's vacation and being talked into buying a house. They were "pre-sold" by slick advertising and pampered and wooed long before coming to Mexico.

Here's the bribe the Gringolandian Moguls used to convince the Mexican city and state officials that "development" is for their own good and that Americans are the only answer to their miserable third-world existences:

"DIF has received US$200,000 from Bald Mountain; the new crossing at Aldama and Cardo was contributed to the city; US$11,000 went for planning works to be carried out at Landeta Park, and Bald Mountain promises one percent of all sales will go to a non-profit SMA foundation for community benefit." (Ibid)

It is with a contribution here and a promise there that they slowly but surely destroy patrimony:

"Plans are for 250 new trees to replace old and/diseased ones, or those necessarily removed in construction. The official name is Rosewood San Miguel de Allende and Artesana Rosewood Residences. Rosewood Hotels and Resorts of Dallas, Texas, have charge of operation of both the resort and the residences. The resort hotel is scheduled to open in 2010 with 63 guest rooms and suites, event facilities and public spaces for rotating exhibitions. There are to be fitness center and spa, restaurants, wine and tequila cellars, and swimming pools. The residences will range from 1,800 square feet (US$850,000) to 8,000 square feet (US$3 million)." (Ibid)

Their steps to 21st Century Cultural Imperialism:

First, destroy the native language by moving in and refusing to learn the language. Soon, the locals have adapted to service the invading and infecting culture by learning the invader's language.

Second, destroy the unique colonial character of the architecture.

Do you believe for one moment this resort will look and feel like Colonial Mexico?

So many vile threats have been filling my email inbox since 2004 from Gringos in SMA for suggesting that what the Gringolandians have had in mind all along is the creation of a Disneyland.

Well, you'll have your non-existent Disneyland-like theme park's construction in motion by 2010 according to Antonio Ramírez in his article, "Anuncian Recate de Pueblos Mineros.

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