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To: marcos who wrote (147257)	10/7/2004 3:52:43 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 281500

Greed is Bad.' - well, explain your Tren Dorado then, chaparro -g- .... there is all kinds of greed ... i once barely escaped with my life after suggesting that Zapata might perhaps possibly have been susceptible to certain forms of it, had you not had him shot The Train of Gold is very much misunderstood. Carranza was a magnificently complex guy, personally incorruptible but completely at ease with his thieving minions. He will probably be best remembered for getting rid of V. Huerta, a dyed-in-the-wool bad hombre (as well as Zapata, who didn't live long enough to become nouveaux rico) and for being the Constitution's midwife, a singular achievement without which it is impossible to say what kind of crazy stuff would have happened, as if La Revolucion wasn't one of the most surreal events ever in the most surreal country in the world, as Sr. Bunuel put it once. I would give my eyeteeth to have been present when Villa finally broke his self-imposed prohibition against alcohol and took a sip of mezcal with Zapata in Mexico City while sitting on the Presidential Throne. The Che Guevaras, Zapatas, Villas, JFK, MLKs, and RFKs of the world simply don't make it to a ripe old age for some reason I don't fully comprehend. Charisma kills. I see a bit of Carranza in Allawi, a good guy who has and will have to do many bad things to bring peace to his country, if he doesn't get blown up first.