President Claudia Sheinbaum declared that the criticism her government receives is because it acts righteously.
“They slander us because they know of our honesty, they know that we are not going to submit to the interests of those who previously held power or enjoyed privileges, nor to any foreign government or interest,” he said during the civil-military parade for the anniversary of the Mexican Revolution.
The president defended the country’s sovereignty this Thursday and assured that “whoever calls for “foreign intervention” is “wrong.”
“He who calls for foreign intervention is wrong, he who thinks that by allying with the outside he will have strength is wrong, he who believes that women are weak is wrong,” he noted.
Furthermore, he stated that his government is not going to submit “to the interests of those who previously held power, nor to any foreign government or interest.”
Sheinbaum, who took office in October 2024, evoked the 1910 uprising as a feat that rejected injustice and cemented social rights, democracy and sovereignty.
He recalled, in this sense, that the Mexican Revolution emerged in resistance to the regime of Porfirio Díaz (1876-1911), which maintained an “authoritarianism based on repression, fear and forced submission of the people,” while delivering natural resources to foreign companies and maintaining indigenous communities in conditions of dispossession and exploitation.
The president traced a historical journey from the emergence of anti-reelectionism led by Francisco I. Madero, the outbreak of the armed movement on November 20, 1910, to the coup d’état of 1913 and the assassination of President Madero (1911-1913) and Vice President José María Pino Suárez, in which she noted the intervention of the US ambassador of the time, Henry Lane Wilson.
“This foreign interference, added to internal betrayal, culminated in the murder of Madero and Pino Suárez, a crime that opened one of the most painful and violent chapters in the history of Mexico,” he said.
He also remembered the subsequent resistance led by Venustiano Carranza, and the armies of Emiliano Zapata, in the south, and Francisco Villa, in the north; and the process that culminated in the Constitution of 1917, which he defined as “the most advanced in the world in social justice,” for recognizing labor, agrarian, educational rights and sovereignty over natural resources.
The president linked that legacy to the self-called Fourth Transformation, begun in 2018, which, she said, is a peaceful transformation that “reclaims justice, freedom, democracy and shared prosperity” and that remains strong “because the majority of the people support it.”
In this context, he criticized what he described as attempts to restore privileges for a few, as well as speeches that “normalize violence as a path, that glorify imposition.”
Sheinbaum highlighted that, unlike in the past, in today’s Mexico “no one is silenced anymore, no one is persecuted for thinking differently and that is an achievement of the people of Mexico.”
He also stated that currently it is governed with austerity, ethics and honesty: “Moral authority cannot be bought with all the money in the world. It is built throughout life with coherence and convictions,” he stated.
The president closed her speech with a recognition of the Armed Forces, which emerged from the Revolution, and called to maintain “loyalty to the people and love to the country.”
“Mexico advances along the path of honesty, peace, democracy and
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Sheinbaum has stated that behind the demonstrations called by young people from “Generation Z” there are opposition groups, violent entities and even influences from abroad.
The president rejects that it is a genuine youth movement and affirms that many of those who marched were not truly part of Generation Z and that there was a political operation to “hook” young people into a critical narrative against their government.
Sheinbaum has said he defends the right to peacefully protest, but warns about violence from certain groups.
The November 15 protest in Mexico City brought together thousands and ended with clashes between a so-called “black block” and the capital’s police around the Zócalo.
Sheinbaum assured that these mobilizations have no consequences for his transformation project: “In the Fourth Transformation, power is exercised to serve and not to subdue,” he stated, rejecting privileges and the imposition of external interests.
With EFE information
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