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She compared him with the conservative Mexicans who, in the 1850s, invited the French to help overthrow the liberal government of President Benito Juarez.

Montebello resident Rosa Maria Juarez, 96, doesn’t like what’s happening to the country, and in these tumultuous times, she has a strategy for getting through each day.

“I’ve always kept up with the news, but I don’t want to watch it now,” Juarez said.

Avoiding daily news of President Trump’s attacks on the judiciary, the Constitution, the media, political enemies and foreign countries is but one part of Juarez’s game plan for survival.

“We’re a country that’s going down, like the Titanic,” Juarez said.