"LET US RETURN TO THE PROPOSALS OF "OPERATION JUAREZ"

Col. Mohamed Ali Seineldin, spoke by telephone from the Campo de Mayo prison in Argentina where he is unjustly imprisoned.

The year 1982 represented a crossroads for Hispanic America, beginning with two historic events: Argentina's patriotic war to recover the Malvinas Islands, whose hero, Colonel Mohamed Ali Seineldin will address a few words to this seminar shortly, and the patriotic decrees issued by former Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo, who will also participate with written remarks to this event, against the usurious abuses of the London and Wall Street-based international financial establishment, which led to national ruin.

The only American who encouraged and understood the dimension of the Argentine and Mexican resistance at that time, was Lyndon LaRouche. LaRouche promoted the correct meaning of the Monroe Doctrine against the British imperial invader, and with the same patriotism, opposed the hegemonic Anglo-American outlook which led the United States to betray its own republican tradition, and join NATO'S first great out-of-area deployment which defeated Argentina.

At that time Mexico was also under fire by the Anglo- American financial power, intent on stopping cold the most decisive efforts of Mexico's history, to transform itself into an industrial power. The government of Jose Lopez Portillo had assumed the great task of transforming oil, a non-renewable resource, into renewable resources through industrialization. Among the many obstacles that the interests of international usury imposed on Mexico, the most important was that of the Trilateral Commission government of Jimmy Carter, which proclaimed that it "would not allow another Japan south of the U.S. border." Through the evil conception was unleashed the most merciless and atrocious war of slanders, pernicious rumors and finally the most scandalous looting in the history of Mexico to that time.

In the face of that offensive, Jose Lopez Portillo and Lyndon LaRouche each independently agreed that the suspension of foreign debt payments, and the reorganization of the national banking system, were the only effective defense against the unbridled looting of the country, carried out using the foreign debt as a pretext.

The reality Mexico faced was the same affecting all nations, and had it had the support of Brazil and Argentina, the entire continent would have shaken off the plague of usury and its free-trade policies.

It is with great joy that we celebrate the presence here today of these two great Hispanic American nations.

In July of 1982, when a Mexican representative asked LaRouche to put in writing his suggestions on what Mexico must do, I thought that Lyndon would perhaps write four pages, points one through four. But he didn't see the opportunity and conjuncture as superficial ones, so he wrote a book which very quickly became the world-famous work "Operation Juarez." Not only did it include the Mexican decrees of August and September of 1982. It also outlined the actions necessary to convert Ibero-America into a world economic power: a new financial and credit system, an Ibero-American common market, and a strategy for integration and sovereign industrial development.

From that moment on, in October of 1982, at Henry Kissinger's urging, a secret order was given that Lyndon H. LaRouche would never be allowed to return to Mexico--an order which explains why we do have him here physically today, despite our efforts.

Nonetheless, today we have brought together the protagonists of that great history, and are building the bridges necessary to emerge victorious from earlier defeats. Our meeting remedies the omissions of the past.

Argentina's economic tragedy of recent months has given us a new opportunity to exercise true solidarity. This is no individual crisis.

As seen in the fact that we have seven nations negotiating simultaneously with the IMF because of the same problems, we are in the final phase of a systemic crisis, in which "we are all Argentina".

Today the alternatives are clear: either Ibero-America unites to fight for a global solution to this generalized systemic crisis, and that necessarily implies an alliance with the forces Lyndon H. LaRouche represents in the United States; or, divided, we shall succumb as nations, disintegrated, worn down by internal battles, seized by violence, drug-trafficking, hunger and disease.

The Anglo-Americans' evil design is to impose a new, English-speaking, racist and genocidal Roman Empire, in the disguise of the Northern Command and the Free Trade Area of the Americas, whose renewed offensive has taken off since the events of September 11, 2023.

As will become clear in the course of this seminar, this crisis is also our opportunity to go on the offensive. We are not either the bad guys or the fools of the movie. The crisis is already causing upheaval in the United States itself, in which LaRouche is the only Presidential pre-candidate who represents the best of American history, and the option to build the New Bretton Woods for the benefit of all.

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