Aztlán
About The Book
Aztlán
This trilogy is a work of speculative fiction. Based on true events and facts, some parts are imagined simply as “What if…” had taken place in lieu of derailment or defeat. Any similarity in names, dates, events, results, and persons is purely and strictly coincidental. They are made up to give the narrative a personal touch. Many of the plans outlined in these works are actual plans put into play during the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s to 1980s. The three novels are focused on the key concepts of ethnic identity, organization, strategic plans for empowerment, visioning the mobilization of resources, and implementation of the overall goal of realizing Aztlán.
Dystopia and Derailment: Gringo Politics in the Building of Aztlán, Volume I, deals with the first attempts at self-governance and the beginning of Aztlán in South Texas. Volume II, Redemption and Retribution: Aztlan Begins Again, deals with the Raza Unida Party going statewide and na- tional as an electoral strategy to replicate Aztlán, a nation within a nation, across the country. Volume III, Aztlán: The Nation of Aztlán, is the internationalization of the Raza Unida Party. It focuses on the reality of self-determination and governance in what once was a Gringo politicized world led by reactionary, fascist right-wing Republicans and supported by many Democrats.
This Volume III begins after the 2020 Presidential election. Donald Chump lost to a Democrat, Joe Bitten. Chump dismissed Congress before his term was up on January 11, 2021. He declared a National Emergency and tried to invalidate the national General Election of November 3, 2020. He then mobilized the National Guard in every state, deployed federal troops to all states he lost and some territories, mainly Puerto Rico. He declared himself Continuing Interim President of the United States for an indefinite time. During his first term, he had built a useless 40-foot high fence along the US-Mexico border and openly supported armed, white-led, militias that took up patrolling the border with Mexico.
Why Read It ?
Aztlán
By 2021, JAG and the other core leaders in both MAYO and ZAZ now under one unified leader- ship command led by JAG begin to rethink their goals. Only a few of the original founders were still alive or well enough to continue the fight. Their grown children and grandchildren were now the vanguard of the movement. The immediate focus of JAG’s network was the re-making of the USA and the Americas via demographic growth, electoral strength, consumer, and labor power. Organizing under the slogans of “We Are the Future,” “US: We are the US of A,” “Paint the White House Brown” and “Take Back our Homelands” they worked toward a new political alignment of peoples in the Americas. The principal goal became the building of an equitable world government without nationalities and citizenship criteria other than being part of humankind and protective of Mother Earth.