Josefina Vazquez Mota, the presidential nominee of Mexico’s
ruling National Action Party: Last
in the polls, Mota is calling
on Washington to take more responsibility
for the chaos and
violence across
the border. The Mexican election is July 1.
Josefina Mota Fears
U.S. Election Narrative Endangers Mexicans at Home and Across Border (Excelsior,
Mexico)
“Operations like ‘Fast
and Furious’ can no longer be permitted. … I appeal for common sense to prevail and for a
responsible dialogue free of political agendas that get caught up in the
electoral arena. This will inevitably make the acceptance of shared
responsibility harder to attain, and will harm and even foster aggression against
Mexican communities in the United States.”
-- Mexico Presidential Candidate Josefina Vazquez Mota
Protesters in Mexico City demonstrate against media censorship and its perceived favoring of Enrique Pena Nieto, the presidential candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party [PRI]. The PRI ruled Mexico for most of its modern history, and is regarded by many as irretrievably corrupt. Nieto is leading in the polls by a wide margin.
The presidential candidate for the National Action Party, Josefina
Vazquez Mota, called or common sense to prevail in the United States when it
comes to security and migration, and not to allow these
issues from being politicized on the altar of electoral ambition, with has an impact
on our fellow citizens.
[Editor’s Note: In a three way race for the Mexican presidency,
the
most recent polls show that Enrique Peña Nieto
of the Institutional Revolutionary Party is leading with 36.1 percent, Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the Party of the Democratic Revolution,
who narrowly lost the last election in a Bush-Gore squeaker, is in second place
with 19.5 percent, and Josefina Vazquez Mota,
the candidate of the now ruling National Action Party, is narrowly behind Obrador
with 19.1 percent. The election is scheduled for July 1].
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By participating in the Fourth National Forum on Safety and
Justice, this year entitled, "Four Years of Penal Reform: What’s Missing?,”
Mota said that Mexico has made extraordinary efforts on the matter of security,
which is why it feels like it has the moral right to demand the same from the United
States.
In this context, the presidential standard bearer the National
Action Party also urged the American Union to address the issue of weapons
sales, and warned that operations like “Fast and Furious”
can no longer be permitted.
Mota stressed that thanks to ignorance about the reality of
Mexico, decisions made in the United States are far removed from what is required.
Therefore, Mota expressed concern that at election time, these issues could end
up being used against Mexicans living in that country.
"I appeal for common sense to prevail and for a responsible
institutional dialogue free of political agendas that get caught up in the
electoral arena. This will inevitably make the acceptance of shared
responsibility harder to attain, and will harm and even foster aggression against
Mexican communities in the United States," she said.
Mota also stressed the need to establish an agenda of shared
responsibility and a clear timeline for action with the government of the United
States and other actors.
"U.S. recognition that what happens on its side of the
border is inextricably tied to what happens on this side, in our country, must
take place - and we must recognize precisely the same point, "she said.
Above all, she said, it would be, "a very grave mistake,
to say the least, or a matter of great confusion and injustice, to assume that
what we are living through today is only a problem and challenge for Mexico.
This is a challenge to the global order. And for everything that phrase means
and stands for, the United States has a fundamental responsibility."
The PAN presidential candidate stressed that the issue of weapons
is no less important, and that mechanisms must be devised for reacting to
complaints from the United States, where the weapons are sold, so that Washington
assumes joint responsibility for the problem.
