A new "Hispanic homeland"? (Insider Report).

University of New Mexico professor Charles Truxillo predicts that the current border between the U.S. and Mexico will be supplanted by a new political entity called "Republica del Norte."

"Stretching from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico, it would include all of the present U.S. states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, plus southern Colorado," reported the March 10th Albuquerque Tribune. This comports with the "El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan," the vision pursued by radical Chicano activists to recapture territory supposedly stolen from Mexico. Truxillo, who teaches "Chicano studies" at UNM, expands that vision by suggesting that "Republica del Norte" would also absorb "the northern tier of current Mexican states: Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas."

Truxillo, a self-described disciple of Chicano-Marxist terrorist Reies Lopez Tijerina, insists that creation of this new Hispanic homeland is "an inevitability.... Not within the next 20 years but within 80 years. I may not live to see the Hispanic homeland, but by the end of the century my students' kids will live in it, sovereign and free."

Radical Chicano students at other universities have not only taken the vision of an Hispanic homeland to heart, they have threatened others who are not enchanted by that prospect. The March 5th Washington Times reported that members of the Berkeley Conservative Foundation at the University of California Berkeley became "a target of death threats after the group printed a story criticizing a Hispanic campus group's call for revolutionary liberation from white people."

In late February, the California Patriot newsmagazine published a critique of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MECha). Shortly thereafter, some members of the Conservative Foundation were harassed by MECha cadres, and others received death threats. On the following day, the Patriot's editorial office was ransacked: All 3,000 copies of the magazine were stolen, and thousands of dollars' worth of damage was done.