Peninsula 360 Press editorial office
On June 6, 2021, Mexico will experience the biggest and most complex elections in its history, elections in which compatriots living in the United States should not be left behind, those who seek to be heard and taken into account in coming from the country that saw them born.
This was the view of Enrique Esparza, host of the program "Hablando del Tema", and his guest Javier Gonzalez, founding member of the Bay Area Community, who called on fellow Americans in the U.S. and Mexico not to sell their vote.
"We need a campaign to make the community, our people and all the people of Mexico aware that at the moment they are selling their vote and at the moment they are receiving something in return, they are harming their present and the future of their children," Esparza said.
He said these politicians, who are in power, use the need of the most vulnerable to obtain votes that will lead them to positions in politics at the municipal, state and federal levels.
"We are not talking about you voting for one or the other, but that you have a conscience, that you know the proposals well, that you know this person who is going to lead your community, your municipality, your town, your state, who is going to represent us in the Chamber of Deputies or in the Senate. We must have a conscience and break this bad habit," he said.
The program, which is transmitted by peninsula360press.com every Saturday, had as a special guest Carlos Pozos, known as "Lord Molecule", who from Monday to Friday attends in his character of journalist to the informative session - tomorrow - given by the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known by many as AMLO.
Thus, during his speech, from Mexico City, he referred to the fact that practices such as bribes to voters continue in various parts of the country: "President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has always said, from his campaign, that they should receive what they were given but that when it comes to casting the vote, how is it secret, they should do it with conscience".
"In the last elections of 2018, thank God, the citizens, already fed up with 36 years of bad management, of total corruption in the government, decided for a change, for this real change, what is the administration of the fourth transformation that has two years with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador at the head," he added.
In turn, the journalist explained that every morning, AMLO seeks to remind the Mexican people of all the bad management that has existed over the past 36 years before he became president by the hand of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) party.
"Unfortunately we Mexicans lack that memory, I think we have a very short memory, we soon forget it and we are very likely to sell our vote, but I insist, I think that fortunately in 2018 it was seen that as much as they gave away the Money Express cards, as much as they gave away gifts and construction material, there was that weariness and the citizens voted for a real change, what is change for brunette," he said.
He recalled that the millions of Mexicans living in the U.S. who were expelled from Mexico by the neoliberal system will be very important in the upcoming elections, however, so far, only 83 compatriots have registered to have their voter credentials.
In that sense, he said the Mexican government will send 181,258 ballot packages to the United States, for which it will invest 5.1 million dollars.
For his part, Enrique Esparza recalled that there are a number of barriers for Mexicans in the U.S. to exercise their vote, since only obtaining an appointment at the nearest consulate can take between six months and a year, and this is added to bureaucratic procedures that make many desist in their desire to exercise the vote.
In this sense, Javier Gonzalez stressed that "unfortunately we have a series of barriers to exercise our vote abroad ... is an odyssey to process a voter card.
In view of these irregularities, Lord Molécula promised to make Chancellor Marcelo Ebrard and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador themselves aware of them, so that they can take the corresponding measures and support the consulates and embassies in moving towards a fourth transformation.
On the other hand, Enrique Esparza and Javier Gonzalez called on the community to take care of themselves and protect others in the face of the increase in positive cases of Covid-19, a virus that has claimed the lives of more than 299,000 people in the country, and that so far has accumulated more than 16 million 250,000 people with the disease.
"Don't let your guard down. This is a pandemic that has touched family and close friends. We returned to this situation of red where we have to keep ... This is a call from us, from the Mexican community and for all people who are seeing us, not only Latino but of any ethnicity or any nation, we have to throw it, "said Javier.
Finally, both added that if one is a victim of these irregularities and others such as support in case of repatriation of bodies, where the consulate is not supporting with more than 500 dollars, they should communicate and send their cases, so that a file can be formed and that through Lord Molécula it can be channeled to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
