Peña Nieto a Trump - Mexicans deserve respect !

Enrique Peña Nieto a Trump.

Mexicans deserve respect.  Mexicans residing in the U.S. deserve respect.
See the speech here.
http://www.univision.com/shows/noticiero-univision/enrique-pena-nieto-sobre-donald-trump-mi-prioridad-es-proteger-a-los-mexicanos-donde-quiera-que-se-encuentren-video#eov


Enrique Peña Nieto sobre Donald Trump: "Mi prioridad es proteger a los mexicanos donde quiera que se encuentren"

Ayotzinapa - The Mexican Federal Police were involved

A report by two researchers, one from Mexico and one from U.C. Berkely has made a major connection. They demonstrate that the Mexican Federal Police were significantly involved in the murder and disappearance of the students in Ayotzinapa and Iguala as protestors have long claimed.  This report reveals that the Mexican government has lied from the beginning.

At present the report has not received attention in the U.S., except on Huffington Report.  It has been published by Proceso in Mexico, a legitimate news magazine.

Mexico's federal police collaborated with local forces in the September attack on 43 students whose disappearance and presumed killings have led to mass protests in the country, according to an investigative report published Sunday in the Mexican magazine Proceso.

Federal authorities also likely tortured key witnesses who offered critical testimony for an investigation by the Mexican attorney general's office into the disappearances, the lead reporter for the Proceso story told The Huffington Post.

Groups protest Pro-corporate policies of Mexican Government and President Peña Nieto

SACRAMENTO, Calif. —Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto praised Gov. Jerry Brown and state lawmakers Tuesday for approving a series of immigrant-friendly laws, saying California is taking a lead role in the absence of national immigration reform.


He specifically mentioned a law that allows immigrants in the country illegally to obtain driver's licenses, a law that has yet to take effect because a final decision has not been made about the appearance of the licenses.

Watch the KCRA  report: Some protest as Mexican president visits Sacramento, speaks http://www.kcra.com/politics/mexican-president-to-face-protest-in-sacramento/27737714#ixzz3BZ0CXDM6

California also allows immigrants here illegally to apply for state-funded college scholarships and aid at public universities. And earlier this month, Brown and the Democratic legislative leaders announced a plan to spend $3 million to provide legal help for the estimated 3,900 unaccompanied immigrant children from Central America who are in the state.

Pena Nieto said such actions signaled that California was recognizing human dignity no matter a person's immigration status.

"The progress you have promoted not only benefits Californians because you have sent a very clear message to the U.S. and the entire world," he said during an address in Spanish to a joint session of the Legislature.

His visit followed Brown's trade mission to Mexico earlier this summer. The Democratic governor wants to promote greater cross-border cooperation with the country that is California's largest export market, most notably on alternative energy projects that could help combat climate change.

The Protest against Peña Nieto  organized by the Zapatista Solidarity Committee and others argued that Mexico is undemocratic and  suppresses political dissent.  A recent report ranks Mexico as seventh on the list of countries where journalists are killed.

Mexican President Peña Nieto comes to California Capitol

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is visiting the Sacramento capitol this week and his publicity machine is in full motion getting plaudits written by paid publicists. If Governor Rick Perry came to California and made a report on the state of the economy in Texas would you accept his report without skepticism ?  As a counter balance, here are two recent posts on this blog about the actual conditions in Mexico.   The first is  excepts from a review of David Bacon’s book and the second is a post by Bacon on the PRI's assault on labor in Mexico.   There is much more to say. I recommend Bacon’s book, and the book Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter’s Journey though a country’s descent into darkness.  by journalist Alfredo Corchado. (2013).

From A review of David Bacon’s The Right to Stay Home.

By Duane Campbell

The U.S. public is  engaged  in a sustained and divisive debate over immigration. Unfortunately, at the same  time , most in the  U.S. do not recognize that U.S. economic policy,  particularly NAFTA created many of  the conditions that produce the very immigration of some 8 million people  that many on the Right and the Tea Party   so oppose.

The passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994 accelerated a neo-liberal form of economic growth in Mexico that drove poor farmers, particularly in the indigenous south to lose their farms and their livelihood.  In  response  young men, and increasingly the young women,  made the dangerous trek to the U.S. in search of work and an income to feed their families and keep their families from losing their  farms.  

A new student movement emerges in Mexico

 Abigail Thorton

A nascent student group calling itself Yo Soy 132 (or I Am 132) held its second national march June 10, in protest of Mexican presidential candidate, Enrique Peña Nieto. Estimates had the crowd numbers in Mexico City alone at over 90,000–almost double the estimated 46,000 that were present for the first march against the candidate in mid-May.

Much of the recent organizing in the country has been explicitly against the possible victory of Peña Nieto, a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI by its Spanish initials, that is positioned to potentially return to power after 12 years out of the presidency and before that over 70 years in power. The PRI is considered by many to have been an authoritarian regime, and some Mexicans fear the possibility that with the return of the PRI, there could also be a rollback of freedoms in this still fledgling democracy.

Recent momentum and interest in what many had considered to be a lackluster presidential campaign has been credited to the development of this new student movement. At a campus visit by Peña Nieto to the Universidad Iberoamericana (known as the Ibero) on May 11, students at this private university surprised many by surrounding the conference and shouting accusations, questions and demands that the candidate leave the campus. Amidst this unexpected protest, Peña Nieto left abruptly, with students in pursuit. Videos of the scene were quickly uploaded to various social media networks, and images of the candidate fleeing the campus immediately went viral.

Read the entire piece. http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/7160

The Americas Program