Peninsula 360 Press
On June 6, 2021, Mexico will experience the largest and most complex elections in its history, elections that should not leave behind the compatriots living in the U.S., who seek to be heard and taken into account in the coming of the country where they were born.
This was stated by "Hablando del Tema" host Enrique Esparza and his guest Javier Gonzalez, founding member of the Bay Area Community, who made a call to their compatriots in the U.S. and Mexico not to sell their vote.
"We need an awareness campaign to the community, to our people and to all the people of Mexico to please think that the moment you are selling your vote and the moment you are getting something in return, you are hurting your present and the future of your children," Esparza said.
And, he said, these politicians, who are in need of power, take advantage of the needs of the most vulnerable to get votes that will lead them to reach political positions at the municipal, state and federal levels.
"We are not talking about voting for one or the other, but that they have conscience, that they know the proposals, that they know this person who is going to lead their community, their municipality, their town, their state, who is going to represent us in the House of Representatives or in the Senate. We have to be aware and break this bad habit," he said.
The show, which airs on peninsula360press.com every Saturday, featured special guest Carlos Pozos, known as "Lord Molecule," who Monday through Friday attends the "morning" briefing given by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known to many as AMLO, in his capacity as a journalist.
Thus, during his speech from Mexico City, he said that practices such as bribes to voters continue in various parts of the country: "President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has always said it, since the campaign said it, that they received what they were given but that at the time of casting the ballot or vote, as it is secret, they did it with conscience.
"In the past elections of 2018, thank God, the citizenship already fed up with 36 years of mismanagement, of total corruption in the government, decided for a change, for this real change what is the administration of the government of the fourth transformation that has two years with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador at the helm," he added.
In turn, the journalist explained that every morning, AMLO seeks to remind the Mexican people of all the mismanagement that has existed over the past 36 years before he came to the presidency by the hand of the National Regeneration Movement party (MORENA).
"Unfortunately Mexicans lack that memory, I think we have a very short memory, we soon forget and we are very likely to sell our vote, but I insist, I believe that fortunately in 2018 it was seen that as much as they gave away Money Express cards, as much as they gave handouts and material for construction, there was that fed up and the citizens voted for a real change, what is the change for morena," he said.
He recalled 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 been registered to have their voter registration card.
In that sense, he noted that the Mexican government will send 181,258 ballot packets 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, because just get an appointment at the nearest consulate can take between six months and a year, and this is in addition to bureaucratic procedures that make many desist in their desire to exercise the vote.
In that sense, Javier Gonzalez stressed that "unfortunately we have a number of barriers to exercise our vote abroad ... it is an ordeal to process a voter card.
Given these irregularities, Lord Molecule pledged to inform Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard and President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador himself, so that they can take the appropriate measures and support the consulates and embassies also move 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 due to the increase of positive cases of Covid-19, a virus that has claimed the lives of more than 299 thousand people in the country, and that so far accumulates more than 16 million 250 thousand people with the disease.
"We must not let our guard down. This is a pandemic that has touched family and close friends. We have returned to this situation of the red where we have to guard ourselves? This is a call from us, from the Mexican community and for all the people who are watching us, not only Latinos but of any ethnicity or any nation, we have to give it our all," said Javier.
Finally, both added that if you are a victim of these irregularities and others such as support in case of repatriation of bodies, where the consulate is not supporting more than $ 500, contact and send their cases, so they can form a file and that through Lord Molecule is channeled to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
