A New Hope For Mexico by Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Author:Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Nonfiction
Publisher: OR Books
Published: 2018-06-18T16:00:00+00:00

¡Oye, Trump! Speech 8

The Silent Complicity of Peña Nieto’s Administration

New York City and Washington, D.C., March 14 and 15, 2017

Following my meeting with migrants in New York, we had scheduled an interview with the United Nation’s High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations. The meeting was postponed due to a winter storm but we still managed to deliver a formal letter of complaint to his office condemning discrimination against the Mexican people and the orders issued by Donald Trump to begin construction of the border wall and widen persecution of migrants more generally.

This complaint should have been presented by the Mexican government the moment those arbitrary measures, which violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to which all nations, including the US, are signatories, were taken. However, Peña Nieto’s regime, lacking political and moral authority, permitted this affront to our people to go unchallenged.

The letter reads as follows:

Mr. Andrew Gilmour,

Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights and Head of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Dear Sir,

As the whole world is aware, the people of Mexico face a grave economic crisis as well as instability and violence.

This has resulted from the imposition of the neoliberal model derived from the so-called “Washington Consensus.” Since that time, a small group of Mexicans and foreigners have dedicated themselves to pillaging the resources of Mexico and depriving the vast majority of the Mexican people of what is rightfully theirs, and thereby denying them any meaningful future.

This greedy minority cares nothing for the development of our country. The government—which exists to serve to serve the people—has created widespread poverty. Government support for our rural areas ceased; jobs were no longer created, and our young people were neglected. They have been deprived of the right to education and work. This explains, in large part, the widespread resentment and violence that has plagued my country for many years.

Faced with this crisis, and lacking any other options, millions of Mexicans have undertaken an exhausting and painful journey through the desert to cross the border into the United States in the hopes of making an honest living there.

Millions of Mexicans have been driven from our country due to privatization and unemployment. They migrated to lessen their hunger and poverty, and now face a climate of hatred and discrimination disseminated during the campaign of president Donald Trump.

The plans to construct a border wall and persecute migrants in this country are in violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights—fundamental documents signed by members of the UN, including the United States of America.

Based on the above, and given Enrique Peña Nieto’s failure to act in the face of these threats, we have come to present this complaint and ask you to condemn the United States and call upon them to cease violating human rights and practicing racial discrimination.

We must not forget that that titan of liberty, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a

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