Working as a police officer in Mexico
Chapter 910 - 478: Life Will Get Better, Won't It?_3

Even as late as 2020, many people still didn't understand why the economy of the East was rising so quickly.

It was like an investor placing bets ahead of time; if the returns are guaranteed, of course one would bet big.

Especially under such circumstances when no one else in the world believed in success, he was the first to take a stand!

Actually, there was another reason...

At the very least, they didn't support drug trafficking, which in terms of morality, placed them ahead of the overall level of the United States.

This was the most important thing!

He smoked a cigarette, crossed his legs, and squinted his eyes...

Watching the storm unfold!

...

The Black Canyon at the Nevada-Arizona border.

A particularly famous landmark stood there: the Hoover Dam!

Many people didn't even know about this place, but everyone who visited said it was... truly beautiful.

Yet, few realized that this place was nothing less than a bone-devouring den of sins!

The Hoover Dam intercepted the Colorado River, whose downstream led to Mexico!

In 1922, the United States unilaterally passed the Colorado River Contract, dividing the water resources of the Colorado River among seven U.S. States, balancing conflicts of interest between the States, and earning a reputation as a milestone in the partitioning of Colorado River water rights.

However, this milestone did not require inviting Mexico, another country through which the river flows. Instead, the contract contained merely a one-line provision that stated if future water disputes arose with Mexico, the States would renegotiate the allocation. Translating its essence into simple Chinese, it basically meant: "Ignore them; we'll just sort things out among ourselves."

By the end of World War II in 1944, the Americans' words had clearly become much more explicit. They signed the Colorado River Agreement with the Mexican Government, stipulating that the United States would provide Mexico with 1.85 billion m³ of water annually. Doesn't this oddly specific figure seem suspicious?

Indeed, since the annual runoff of the Colorado River was 18.5 billion m³, this agreement gave Mexico roughly 10%—a request even beggars wouldn't dare make at E City's charity table.

By 1956, the famously thorough Americans planned four major dams upstream of the Colorado River, including the Aspinall Dam, the Fleming George Dam, the Navajo Dam, and the Grand Canyon Project.

Then, after the freedom of trade allowed goods from three countries to flow freely in 1989, cola instantly occupied over 70% of the regional market share.

And with that, the final remnants of Mexico's water resources were completely monopolized.

Thus...

The accomplishment of "Mexico being far too close to the United States" was realized.

It was a textbook example of...

To make the United States thrive, Mexico must suffer.

However, at this moment...

Outside the Hoover Dam, a group of people was gathered, holding banners to protest!

The U.S. Government was preparing to blow up this nearly 70-year-old dam.

This was strongly demanded in the "Ceasefire Agreement!"

Destroy the Hoover Dam, Aspinall Dam, Fleming George Dam, cancel the Grand Canyon Project...

Such demands...

The Americans agreed...

One could only say that the pressure from the capitalists was overwhelming. As for the farmers?

Wall Street was almost bombed into oblivion; would they still care about your few acres of farmland?

You!

Do you all even deserve to call yourselves Americans?

So, protest if you will—but the decisions of the elites cannot be reversed.

Some people did suggest brushing things under the rug… After all, the impact after the explosions would be enormous!

But Clinton figured it was better to avoid unnecessary trouble!

The Black Panther Party was waging guerrilla warfare in the mountains, veterans' pensions hadn't been distributed, racial tensions among Black Americans were boiling over, and Wall Street's blackmail scandal had only just ended...

With a mountain of problems waiting, of course, stirring things up further was the last thing they wanted.

"Prepare for detonation, everyone evacuate!"

The voice crackled through the walkie-talkie.

People around began to disperse.

"Three..."

"Two..."

"One!"

"Detonate!"

As the countdown concluded, the detonator was activated, boom!

The Hoover Dam—an obstacle for Mexico for decades—was shattered, and the raging waters immediately surged downstream!

The former dry beds of the lower basin were instantly submerged.

On the Colorado River's Sonora State side, countless Mexican citizens had already gathered.

"Here it comes! Here it comes! Here it comes!"

Someone yelled, and the crowd collectively widened their eyes, watching the waters crash down from upstream!

Many dark-skinned farmers jumped up and down on the riverbank in excitement, with a few even preparing to plunge in—fortunately, police were there to maintain order.

Journalists captured every moment of the scene.

A few months later, during Mexico's 1992 national college entrance exams, one question would appear:

"The destruction of Hoover Dam and the flow of water through the Colorado River downstream proved what?"

"Answer: It demonstrated the decline of U.S. dominance in North America and the rise of Mexico's people!"

Life...

will get better, won't it?

…

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