And if that means being a communist, a populist, put me on the list
Oh god they’re going to kill him
I translated this clip to English so here you go guys:
With everything that we can help the people of Cuba with, we will so that there’s no more doubt anymore (including oil) because they’re a people who are suffering an inhumane, unjust blockade and we cannot turn our back on the people of Cuba. And we don’t have to ask permission to any foreign government because we are a free, independent, and sovereign country.
Then with everything we can help them with… If they tell us “Sell us oil because we can’t get any” then of course we will! When we ask them “Help us because we don’t have medical specialists” including during the pandemic, medics came! And Cuban medical specialists are working in our country and we’re very grateful to them. And we’re part of the universal fraternity.
That makes us different too and really, truly, it fills me with pride that we’re different from the conservatives - we cannot be the same. I respect those that think differently, we came here with a movement in favor of justice and humanism. Those that were here, not everyone of course, but the bossy ones, they were always looking for profit, personal benefit, they were interested in money. Their real god is money. What we want is fraternity, we want justice and we’re in solidarity with all peoples. And if that means being a communist, populist, then put me on the list.
Where are all the doubters and haters now? Everyone called AMLO a liberal but I always believed in el presidente.
I declare uncritical support for MORENO. Viva Mexico!
I don’t think 42 upvotes represent how historical is that speech. Am I being too optimistic?
Wasn’t that why Venezuela got even more sanctioned to hell with their Petrocaribe program? IIRC a fuel crisis (due to the end of the aforementioned Petrocaribe) was also part of the conditions for the current Haitian situation. The USA can’t expect to control the entirety of Central America through sanctions alone. Hope AMLO follows through on that promise and Mexico can weather the storm.
Considering that a shit ton of US industries are in Mexico, i don’t think they can easily sanction us. Also mexico is a huge % of their trade.
Well yes, but I haven’t seen many US geopolitical decisions that could be considered “sane” over the past 8 years or so. They also used to rely a lot on China a while back, but the bi-partisan “trade war” keeps escalating. Biden might just sleepwalk into this one too, accelerating the US isolation even more just to “look strong.”
But by “weather the storm” I mean the other tactics short of sanctions the US has perfected over the past 70 years to try and keep Latin American countries within their control. Colour revolutions, mass disinformation campaigns, financing reactionary liberal parties, stuff like that.
They could tighten the noose around key figures and their bases of wealth. It does not take much for capitalists to squeal and turn on the government if their capital is threatened in any way whatsoever. It doesn’t even need to be an extreme or total sanction, just enough to anger some capitalists and then turn them on the government.
To add to this, the US wouldn’t dare sanction Mexico. Especially if it allied together with China. They cumulatively make up for 30% of all trade with the US, and are both major suppliers for their industries.
I don’t see how that prevents the U.S. from sanctioning Mexico. The U.S. currently has or had sanctions on Mexican corporations that the State Department claimed were assisting Venezuela. I figure more targeted sanctions to bring Mexico to heel, if necessary, aren’t out of the question.
Because the US will self destruct if it does. Businesses won’t get raw materials for their products, or labour.
I remember one year they threatened to close the border because of migrants. But then backed off with just a verbal commitment given from Mexico. I can just imagine the perfect phone call trump got.
And that’s just Mexico alone. Trump had to back off on the Chinese trade war because businesses couldn’t handle the pain even with gov reimbursement.
Imagine what would happen if they sanctioned both Mexico and China?
