Thread by @realJeffreyP

It is crucial Americans learn the truth about Mexico’s growing influence on political matters of national importance in the United States. It is not well understood yet we are living at a time when it is of the utmost importance for reasons many are unaware of even today. #MAGA

I write this an an American born, California raised U.S. citizen who ended up having a unique insider’s perspective about Mexico, it’s leadership and business circles. Why the clarification? It is a story about a non-Hispanic who ended up on a path to Mexico and Latin America,

after growing up with computers and eventually through a completely unanticipated series of events, starting the first bilingual Spanish/English online community for Hispanics on the Internet.

It was an experience that resulted in a complete, unique tour through the depths of

Latin American business, culture and politics at the highest levels, including befriending and working with elected Presidents of Latin countries such as Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala and others. It led to unique life experiences a American guy from a traditional U.S. household

would never have imagined, such as the very surreal bizarre reality (in retrospect) that I was for a long time on friendly speaking terms with top Mexican business and political figures such as Pepe Aguilar, Carlos Slim, Emilio Azcárraga, Vicente Fox and others, most who I met in

the late 90’s and knew quite well, was around them in one way or another for many years. My company was Quepasa corp., the original Hispanic brand online. It was something like Yahoo was in the beginning for the mainstream market, launched during the original .com “internet boom”

of that time. Quepasa attracted many top personalities in Latin media, such as Gloria Estefan who became our spokesperson, Jennifer Lopez (J-lo) in a more advanced version of our business which eventually reached a size of about fifty million users while I was CEO. Now, years

later, that same company still exists as a social networking business under a different name. It was taken over in a acquisition transaction by then-venture capitalist Rick Scott, ten years ago, before he became Governor of Florida. His group ended up changing Quepasa’s name

to MeetMe, it still trades on the Nasdaq Stock Market with the stock symbol MEET. All of this is explained to give you some background.

When you run a company that grows to a certain size in its sector, it’s not entirely unlike being part of a club. Never thought I was

the smartest guy in the world nor would I. Yet for the most part by virtue of being first to market, it was a unique experience to be able to get to know most of the thought leaders and decision markers around Hispanic Mexican (American) and Latin American business and politics

during those years and many of the relationships lasted a long time. I went in to that world not knowing anything about it but always kept my eyes and ears very much open.

Because of the extremely fast growth trajectory we had when things first started, I took it upon myself to

study the Spanish language nonstop, every waking minute practically which gave me something few other white American guys had, the ability to talk to and understand everything everyone had to say on the Mexican side of the border and a platform and purpose for knowing and

working with many of them. And when you are perceived as being in a leadership role, things are extremely accessible there. I would find myself in situations that now when I reflect on things, seem quite crazy, just one example is how I used to spend a lot of time around the

Mexican Senate, I had several friends who were high level Senators in Mexico, I was there enough to where I’d even have lunch in the cafeteria. Ironically, did the same thing in D.C. for a number of years. Just examples of the extent to which I found myself embedded in both

places. Sometimes life takes us to places we would never imagine. Back home in the U.S., for the most part by virtue of being CEO of the first consumer-facing “.com” tech company in Arizona, I ended up supporting and working with the Governor of our state at the time,

Janet Napolitano. As many of you know, she was the first Gov. to back Obama in his run for President and went on to become Sec. of Homeland Security. As a part of Janet’s group of friends I became involved with many top personalities in the U.S. Democratic party during that time

and was exposed to things I never imagined learning or seeing. Back to the company story, you will see me reflect how at one point we had a peak audience size of about 50 million. It was strange to have 30 million followers on my Quepasa account, I guess because many of them

were bilingual Hispanics, a unlikely outcome for a guy who once got a D in Spanish class. You might have experienced yourself how it is easier to learn when we have our own reasons as opposed to some teacher getting on our case. Anyways, when I say I had

access to a tremendous amount of unique info during the years working on my business and political initiatives relating to Mexico, often directly from top decision makers and personalities on the Mexico side of the border and in Washington D.C. circles, I mean it.

Just a few specific examples, one of my former workers now runs Facebook for the country of Mexico; my former best friend and business partner of ten years now serves as the senior advisor to Mexican businessman Carlos Slim.

For those who already know me, don’t mean to be repetitive. I keep getting new followers and many of them don’t have my background story, sorry about any redundancy. Whoever you are, please know that I appreciate your interest in the topics I’ve been covering,

I wouldn’t be speaking up unless there was a lot more knowledge to share. We all have that voice that tells us when something is important and for a while now, I’ve known this info needs to get out. People are more distracted than ever before online yet it it is an urgent time.

A quick note about trolls and haters. There are things happening now not seen in earlier generations online. If you are some sort of gov. or other “disinfo” agent, (this seems to be a relatively new phenomena..it does really seem to be a thing, though) I hope whatever negativity

you are posting on my threads helps you somehow although I suspect most see through it. If you are in that category and want to talk as others have, I’m pretty easy to find. There is a lawsuit against my former Democrat colleagues pinned to my Twitter timeline. For everyone else,

including the very kind American conservatives I’ve been meeting during the past 8 months..if you are concerned about Mexico’s quickly growing invisible influence on the U.S., you are in the right place. A good deal more actionable info will be coming your way shortly my friends.