La Voz de Aztlan Editorial
Los Angeles, Alta California
May 5, 2001

MALDEF, "Drinko por Cinco" and
Anheuser-Busch

Most U.S. based Raza are not aware that "Cinco de Mayo" is not celebrated in Mexico as it is in Aztlan. Why and how did this day become so celebrated in the southwestern part of the United States? There are many reasons, but one of the principal ones is its "marketing" by the mostly Jewish owned alcohol industry.

Take for example the multi-billion dollar Jewish brewery by the name of Anheuser-Busch. The corporation which is, presently controlled by August Busch IV, learned that marketing Budweiser beer and other alcohol products to both the Black and Mexican communities could be highly profitable. Thirty years ago, Anheuser-Busch began a highly successful program that included buying the cooperation of national Hispanic and Black organizations and leaders. One consequence of the alcohol's industry targeting of Mexicanos was the slogan "Drinko por Cinco". The devastation to both communities, has in many cases, been worst than the crack-cocaine epidemic.

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) as well as Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition have been two principal ethnic organizations that have been bought by the Jewish owned Anheuser-Busch Corporation. It is interesting to know that the Jewish Mogul Ron Burkle, who is behind the Chicano candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles Tony Villar (a.k.a. Antonio Villaraigosa), also helped set up some of the deals with the Rainbow Coalition, MALDEF and the Anheuser-Busch Corporation.

Yosef and Jonathan JacksonAt a party thrown by Ron Burkle at his Green Acres mansion in 1998, Jesse Jackson asked the Jewish Mogul to set up a deal with Anheuser-Busch on behalf of his sons Yosef and Jonathan. If the deal was made, Jackson would lay off pushing a boycott of Budweiser in the Black community. Ron Burkle then set up a meeting between his good friend August Busch IV and Yosef Jackson. Both Yosef and Jonathan ended up with a very sweet deal. They were awarded Chicago’s largest Anheuser-Busch beer distributorship. The sons reportedly paid for the assets, equipment and two buildings with a $6.7 million bank loan. Anheuser-Busch had spent $10.5 million in 1991 for the land and one of the buildings purchased by the Jacksons. Also Ron Burkle hired Jesse Jackson’s mistress Karin Stanford after news that she had bore him an illegitimate son and after questions were being asked about her high salary in a Jackson non-profit organization.

The situation with MALDEF has been pretty much the same thing. The history of MALDEF has been one of betrayal where Jews have taken over through the purging of Mexican males and their replacement by "malinchistas" who are married to Jews. The takeover started with Vilma Martinez who is married to a Jewish Mogul. MALDEF was first started by an activist from Texas and Mario Obledo of California. The Jews first move was to put in Vilma Martinez as the National President. After this, everything went downhill for La Raza. Vilma Martinez has been behind MALDEF to this day. She was responsible for putting in the present National President, Antonia Hernandez who's real name is Mrs. Antonia Stern. During a power struggle by La Raza to regain control of MALDEF, Antonia (Stern) Hernandez was actually "fired" by the then Board of Directors but Mrs. Stern's capable Jewish attorneys were able to re-install her back through their influence in the judicial system.

Budweiser's Vilma MartinezVilma Martinez, the principal woman behind MALDEF, is on the Board of Directors of the Anheuser-Busch Corporation and has a very good working relationship with August Busch IV. She is the "funnel" for monies from Budweiser to MALDEF. This relationship is so cozy that in 1993, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund christened its renovated Los Angeles headquarters the "MALDEF Anheuser-Busch Nonprofit Center". MALDEF now pushes Budweiser beer and other alcoholic products in the Mexicano/Chicano community at every opportunity and lobbies politicians to abstain from passing any laws detrimental to the alcohol industry. They also look the other way when confronted with facts that many of our families are being destroyed by alcoholism. They file ineffective class actions suits to make it appear that they are working for the civil rights of the Mexican-American community and this actions are highly publicized in the Jewish owned media but the reality is something else.

Alcohol is a drug like any other drug. This drug is more devastating than many of the other drugs like marijuana. The monetary costs and psychological wreckage this drug is causing society are astronomical. The health costs, carnage on the highways, and the violence attributable to alcohol are well known. In fact, August Busch IV has first hand knowledge of the misery and wreckage his products can cause. In 1983, he killed a young girl while driving drunk in his Corvette. He was 19-years old and the police found empty cans of Budweiser in his wrecked car. Unlike countless Chicanos who have to face drunk driving charges each year, the beer industry Jewish Mogul was able to buy a "not guilty verdict" from the court.

The buying off of organizations like MALDEF, have long term negative consequences to our community. Addiction research that proves that Mexicanos have a genetic predisposition to alcoholism is being suppressed by the alcohol industry. We all know what "fire water" did to the American Indian, well we Mexicanos have pretty much the same genes as our North American indigenous brothers. It does not take a rocket scientist to see that many of our men are addicted to alcohol. Addiction to the drug alcohol is at times more problematic than addiction to other drugs like cocaine, heroin or nicotine. The tobacco industry has now paid billions because of the damage its product has caused. With organizations like MALDEF, in the pockets of the alcohol industry, it would be very difficult to bring similar class actions suits on behalf of our community.

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