Thursday, October 27, 2005
Mexicans Rebuff U.S. Aid
Mexico City (FN) - Mexicans suffering from the aftermath of Hurricane Wilma have delivered a polite "No, gracias" to offers of U.S. assistance.
Sources within the Mexican Department of Foreign Affairs stated that they feared the intervention of FEMA in the Mexican crisis would just make things worse.
"No me gusta loco norte-americanos," said one Mexican official.
In an effort to reassure Mexican citizens worried about the potentially devastating effects of FEMA intervention, Mexican President Vicente Fox publicly unveiled a plan to block the unwelcome assistance.
The plan involves mobilizing the full resources of Mexico's Department of Tourism and Stereotypes. All Mexican government workers, including the President's office, have been instructed to repeatedly answer "No hablo ingles" if their call-displays show Washington, D.C. area codes. Border guards have been told to act lazy, take long lunch breaks and slur their speech as though drunk if any U.S. government vehicles approach the border. In the event that some aid workers break through, Mexican troops dressed as Mariachi performers have been stationed near the border to distract Americans with colourful songs and hilarious pidgeon-English.
"This is no joking matter. Mexican lives are at stake. You have my commitment that no effort will be spared to stop this onslaught of American assistance," Fox said.
posted by Mentok @ 10:23 a.m.,
1 Comments:
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At 10:07 p.m.,
Mentok said...
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No, sadly, I don't play cribbage. It was one of my late father's favourite games, but I never got around to picking it up.
(Boy, how's that for an atypical downer !)
Why do you ask?
