EPR on Mexican elections
'With PAN & Fox there will be no peace'
Following are excerpts from a statement by the
Revolutionary People's Democratic Party (PDPR) and People's
Revolutionary Army (EPR) that addresses the recent election
of Vicente Fox and the National Action Party (PAN) to the
presidency of Mexico. Fox's victory ended the rule by the
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) since the Mexican
Revolution. The EPR, one of the revolutionary organizations
in Mexico, first emerged in an armed action against the
Mexican state
in 1996 in the state of Guerrero, delivering the
"Manifesto of Aguas Blancas."
To the people of Mexico
To the people of
the world
To the national & international
press
Sisters and brothers, comrades,
With the results of the July 2 elections in Mexico, it is
not democracy that has triumphed. Rather, the winner is a new
power group linked to reaction, the right wing, the financial
oligarchy and transnational capital--fundamentally U.S.
capital.
On the one hand the [Fox government] will sell an image of
resolving the nation's problems. On the other, he will carry
out the policy of the PRI: repression, hunger and
militarization will be his presidential policies,
guaranteeing the economic, poli t ical, military and legal
conditions that allow the increased penetration of trans
national capital in the national economy.
With folksy language, demagogy, and boots in the closet,
now we have Fox with a suit and tie. But in essence he is the
same. He is for the policies of privatization, governing the
country as if it were a corporation.
The proposals to prohibit abortion, impose value-added
taxes on food and medicine, and to privatize the electrical
and petrochemical sectors are not simply mistakes, much less
a newcomer's
ranting. Rather they express the true character of the Fox
government, which is intolerant, privatizing, anti-people and
backward.
Guanajuato [state] is the laboratory for Fox's reactionary
ideas. It is where he has begun to carry out his true
policies, the ones he will impose in the next six years.
There he is showing his true neo-liberal face. There and in
the whole country his political cronyism will continue.
The objective of the PAN government is the
"Americanization" of our country's life, under the direct
order of the Inter national Monetary Fund and the World Bank,
subjecting our economy to the designs of imperialism. This
will bring with it a great er loss of national sovereignty
and of the cultural values of our people. With these policies
it is promoting the super-exploitation of labor through the
promotion of the maquiladora industries, total privatization
of the strategic sectors of national production and fostering
elitist education based on imposing the gringo educational
model.
The Fox cabinet is composed of neo-liberal personalities
who in the Salinas era were protected while they enriched
themselves. Today they make up the "new" political class that
will govern our country. They were the ones that helped the
PRI to starve the people in the past decades.
With the arrival of the PAN, the conservative
clergy--which has always been on the side of the
powerful--today becomes stronger because together with Fox it
is promoting legal initiatives that go against the rights of
women, lay education and the progressive cultural development
of Mexican children. It will also intensify the blows against
the progressive clergy that is on the side of the poor.
By promising to make abortion a crime, the future Fox
government opens the way to an alliance with the conservative
clergy. Intolerance and the ideas of the Holy Inquisition
will characterize the socio-political policies of Foxism.
In summary, Foxism is preparing a new neo-liberal attack
jointly with the intellectuals of the system that urged a
"useful vote" to guarantee the victory of the PAN. Today they
promote reforms in the Federal Labor Law and neo-corporatism
in order to finance the new group in power and to facilitate
the attack on the workers and thereby to subordinate the
trade union movement.
We will see a reorganization of the repressive, police and
military forces that will carry out a deepening of the Low
Intensity Warfare against the people's and revolutionary
movement. There will be a greater direct participation of
foreign counterinsurgency advisors.
In the face of the regime's new offensive, revolutionary
armed struggle continues to be an unavoidable necessity to
defend the people's interests and to respond to the attacks
that will come from the Fox government. The people's movement
must take steps toward reorganization, coordination and unity
to raise the banners of national resistance that together
will allow us to build a just and egalitarian society.
Through the Peoples Democratic Republic, the united people
will win!
Through the revolutionary democratic road, all the people
to power!
With the people's struggle, the EPR will win!
Revolutionary Peoples Democratic Party (PDPR)
Peoples Revolutionary Army (EPR)
General Command - EPR
Mexican Republic, Aug. 28, 2000
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