Mexico Fueled Hitler’s Nazi Germany

Mexico Supplied Nazi Germany With Oil During World War II

 

The Mexican government encouraged foreign entrepreneurs to develop the oil and mining industries of Mexico. However, in March 1938, Mexico seized the assets of 17 legally based, foreign-owned oil corporations, based in Mexico, prompting a boycott of Mexican oil.  Thus, during World War II, Mexico sold its oil to Nazi Germany

 

 

 

A History of Foreign Investments in Mexico

 

By Dr. Thomas M. B. Shepherd

 

My grandparents and parents, American citizens, were residents of the City of Guanajuato in the State of Guanajuato, where they founded and operated El Cedro Silver Mining Company in 1936. They brought with them technical knowledge, energy and working capital, with which they purchased supplies from established Mexican companies in the area. They thus contributed to the economic development of the City of Guanajuato, of the State of Guanajuato and of the Republic of Mexico.

 

Whereas Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas had encouraged my family (as well as other American, British and Dutch families) to emigrate to Mexico and provided them with inmigrado papers (permanency residency status as business proprietors), in March 1938, President Cárdenas did an about face and expropriated the assets of 17 legally-based, American, British and Dutch petroleum companies, including Standard Oil of Mexico, and sought to cripple foreign-owned and operated mining companies in his effort to drive out foreign capitalists and nationalize the petroleum industry and the mining industry.

 

In response, a worldwide boycott of Mexican oil was inaugurated, during which time Mexico began selling its oil to Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II. Thus President Cardenas and his cabinet fueled World War II.

 

As a result, the Lázaro Cárdenas regime created dissention between foreign entrepreneurs and the Mexican people. He also created widespread mistrust of the Mexican government and people.

 

A lengthy and violent miner’s strike ensued, which shut down the operations of El Cedro and other mining concerns for months. During the strike, my older infant brother, who was born in Mexico in 1937, and my mother, then pregnant with me, were evacuated from Guanajuato for their safety. I was born several months later (November 1938) in Joplin, Missouri.  Due to the losses they incurred during the lengthy strike, my grandparents and my father were thereby forced to liquidate the company that they had built from scratch.

 

The Blaise Family

 

The Oiling of a Crisis: 1938

 

The Phenomenon of Lazaro Cardenas

 

I was born and reared in Joplin, Missouri, where my grandparents owned and operated the Admiralty Zinc (Mining) Company, the Snyder Bus Line (later purchased by Crown Coach Company, then Jefferson Lines) and the Galena Harrow (Plow) Factory, prior to my birth.

 

My great-great grandfather, Hon. Ignace Hainer, Hungarian-American lawyer, journalist and professor of modern languages at the University of Missouri, was an outspoken abolitionist during the Civil War.

 

One of my great-great uncles served as an Associate Supreme Court Justice of Oklahoma Territory from 1898 until 1907, when Oklahoma acquired Statehood. He also served as Chief Counsel to the Federal Trade Commission from 1929 to 1933.

 

Following the completion of my secondary education in the State of Missouri, where I was selected by my teachers to be a delegate to Missouri Boys State, I enrolled as a student at the International School of Philosophy and Letters of Universidad Nacional Autónoma in Mexico City in 1956. One of my first and most interesting classes was The History of Foreign Investments in Mexico.

 

I learned that Mexico has had a history of very aggressively attempting to attract foreign capital, foreign technology and foreign entrepreneurs. Once a foreigner has established a business and a life in Mexico, he has his business and property confiscated by the Mexican government, which reserves for itself a 51% controlling interest in any corporation that receives financing by the Bank of Mexico. Is it any wonder people do not trust the Mexican government or the Mexican people?

 

I am also an alumnus of the University of Oklahoma, from where I received a bachelor’s degree and continued my studies in journalism, sociology, political science and regional and city planning at the Graduate College of University of Oklahoma.

 

While enrolled in a class titled The Sociology of Latin America, I was informed by Professor Fred Silberstein that he was mandated by higher ups to GIVE a foreign student a grade on his transcript higher than he actually EARNED in the class. For instance, if a British national, a French national, an Arab national, an Argentinean national, a Chilean national or a Mexican national earned a B, he was GIVEN an A on his transcript. If an American citizen earned a B, he received a B on his transcript.

 

Because of the unfair Anti-American grading policy endorsed by Oklahoma’s Board of Regents and because of the refusal of OU President John Hollomon and OU Vice President Verne Kennedy to take action to change the policy, I withdrew from the Graduate College of the University of Oklahoma with a B average. I have since founded the Shepherd-Montessori Institute, of which I am Chancellor.

 

I realized I had not only been betrayed by the Mexican government. I had also been betrayed by the American government, where I served in the Marine Corps Reserve and the United States Coast Guard during my youth.

 

Dr. Thomas Mitchell Blaise Shepherd

Dr. Tom Miguel Blaise Separdi

 

 

Mexico City Today: Political, Social Volcano

A 1968 Political Analysis

by Tom Blaise de Shepherd

 

http://www.surfingman10.org/mexicocity1968b.html

 

 

 

National Autonomous University of Mexico

Mexico, D.F.

 

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http://www.unam.mx/