President Andrés Manuel López Obrador affirmed that the arrival of the Fourth Transformation in the country’s public life meant the end of subordination to foreign governments that predominated in 35 years of neoliberal policy.
“The best tribute we can pay to those who 162 years ago defended the country from foreign aggression and voracity is to invoke their memory to tell them that the Mexicans of this generation have recovered sovereignty, national dignity and the freedom to decide. the course of Mexico without foreign interference or pressure; that we have established constructive, peaceful, respectful and equal relations with other peoples of the world; that we have left behind a time of surrender and submission; that we are committed to building a truly democratic Mexico, and to combat corruption, inequality and poverty, and that the seed of the example of those who fought in the Battle of Puebla has fallen on fertile soil,” he expressed.
Accompanied by members of the Legal and Expanded Cabinet, he endorsed the position of the government he heads in favor of economic integration, cooperation, good neighborliness and friendship between peoples; however, he said, relations must be based on respect for politics. internal to each nation.
“We have maintained good economic and commercial relations with the United States, treating each other with respect and mutually taking advantage of our neighborhood for the benefit of our people. Fortunately, this has been understood by President Biden, who always says that our relationship must be based on equality. And we appreciate that because Mexico cannot refuse economic integration. (…) We are a free and independent country, that is the fundamental condition,” he emphasized.
“This text is so instructive, so illustrative, that it is impossible not to return to it, again and again,” said the president at the Mausoleum of General Ignacio Zaragoza, while reading:
«Mexico is an extraordinarily easy country to dominate because it is enough to control one man: the president. We have to abandon the idea of putting an American citizen in the presidency of Mexico, since this would lead us to war again. The solution, said the Secretary of State, needs more time: we must open the doors of our universities to ambitious young Mexicans and make the effort to educate them in the American way of life, in our values and in respect for the leadership of the USA. Mexico will eventually need competent administrators. These young people will reach important positions and eventually take over the presidency. Without the United States needing to spend a cent or fire a shot, they will do what we want. And they will do it better and more radically than us.
In the commemoration of the Battle of Puebla, the president took the flag protest to the young people of the National Military Service and witnessed the performance of the civic-military parade.
This event was attended by: the governor of Puebla, Sergio Salomón Céspedes Peregrina; the Secretaries of the Interior, Luisa María Alcalde Luján; of Security and Citizen Protection, Rosa Icela Rodríguez Velázquez; of Public Education, Leticia Ramírez Amaya and of Culture, Alejandra Frausto Guerrero; the secretaries of National Defense, Luis Cresencio Sandoval González; from Marina, José Rafael Ojeda Durán; of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation, Jorge Nuño Lara, of Agriculture and Rural Development, Víctor Manuel Villalobos Arámbula and of Tourism, Miguel Torruco Marqués.
In addition, the president was accompanied by: the undersecretaries of National Defense, Gabriel García Rincón and of the Navy, José Luis Arellano Ruiz; the head of the National System for the Comprehensive Development of the Family, Nuria Fernández Espresate and the municipal president of Puebla, Adán Domínguez Sánchez.
Source: lopezobrador
