El Diario del Coahuila, one of the state's leading dailies, ran great coverage of LaRouche's press conference in its Nov. 6 edition. The paper ran a color photo of LaRouche speaking at the Autonomous University of Coahuila (UAC) on the front page, with the large caption: “A Return To Protectionism Is Urgent. Chaos Must Be Avoided. Interview on Page 2.” The article itself takes up nearly all of page 2, illustrated by two photos of LaRouche: one from the UAC forum which shows LaRouche and some of the audience, and another from the press conference. The caption under the picture reads: " ’The United States is bankrupt, half of its states are bankrupt, and, technically, the federal government and banking system are in ruins,' says Lyndon H. LaRouche.”
The newspaper article also picked up on one of the more explosive points which LaRouche had emphasized in his meetings in Mexico: that President Vicente Fox's reaction to the treatment he and Mexico have received from President Bush, is understandable, since President Bush betrayed his promises to Mexico.
Extensive translated extracts from the article follow. The material in brackets is a paraphrase of the article text.

Interview with Lyndon H. LaRouche
“A Return To Protectionism Is Urgent”
“The Liberal System Is Finished; We Must Avoid Chaos”

Former U.S. presidential candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche states that the financial system headed by the International Monetary Fund is falling apart, and that the nations of the world must return to protectionism before they end up in chaos.

LaRouche was invited by the Autonomous University of Coahuila to speak about new economic tendencies, and during his visit to Saltillo, he strongly criticized the United States government for having created slaves in the Third World, and he stated that the liberal system is at an end.

At a press conference, he accused U.S. President George W. Bush with having serious moral and mental defects, aside from joking about the limited intelligence of the current President.

Questioned about Bush's obsession with making war on Iraq, he answered that Bush “is not very intelligent and is emotionally unbalanced.”

He stressed that President Fox's position regarding the conflict with Iraq has been sensible, given that there has been no immigration accord, which makes it clear that the Bush family lied in promising the Mexican president what until now it has yet to fulfill.

The liberal scheme is dead; time to move to protectionism

LaRouche insisted that the United States is bankrupt. Half of its states are bankrupt, and technically, the federal government and the banking system are in ruins, and only the might of the United States has prevented everything from collapsing. Whatever happens in the [November 5] elections, they will close a chapter of history, because decisions will center on whether or not there will be war, and on economic matters, the great question will be whether the current IMF system will be thrown onto the garbage heap, with the cooperation of the world's governments.

He pronounced the liberal system dead, and that what is now on the agenda is a protectionist system of growth. “If we don't do this, we are going to die. We have no alternative. No government has that alternative: it's either chaos, or reconstruction.”

He emphasized that what we are seeing now is something worse than any economic depression experienced in modern history. That is, if governments fall apart, and if there is an attempt to use military might to force the collection of the debt, a situation will be generated worldwide which will be known as a new version of the Dark Age that prevailed in Europe in the 4th (sic) century.

International Monetary Fund: A Toilet

"The IMF is a public toilet, and therefore this should lead to the reorganization of a bankrupt system and the achieving of the principle of the General Welfare or the Common Good. The people must be defended, while the bankrupt banks will continue to function under government supervision, because these are essential to the economy and to the people.”

[... LaRouche talks about the necessity of increasing levels of employment, and that to achieve this, an agreement must be reached among sovereign nation-states, as is already being discussed in Korea, China and countries of Southeast Asia.]

“My concern is to encourage the government of the United States to accept this kind of reorganization, and developments are going to help this come about. Not because they agree with me, but because they have no alternative.”

[... LaRouche talks about 1964, of the change from an economy of production to one of consumption; that the United States began to base itself on cheap labor throughout the world and failed to make the necessary investments.]

“We turned the world population into a mass of cheap labor where working people could not even maintain their families.”

He added that the United States has been living on the basis of production by cheap slave labor around the world, the which brought about a psychological change in the attitude of the generation which came to power, who were adolescents during the war against Indochina in 1964.

"We Are Living By Sucking The Blood Of The Rest Of The World”

[Here, LaRouche says that what is happening in the United States is not part of a cyclical process of ebb and flow, but is rather a systemic crisis.]

Energy Should Be Available To Every Social Class

With regard to the opening up of Mexico's energy sector, he indicated that this should be done under a protectionist policy in which the State controls investment. He clarified that the energy policy of Mexico and of the United States are closely related, so that a good energy system should be under government supervision of the generating and distribution plants.

In this context, the authority of the government should be used to support companies that are private, but regulated by the State since the point is for these companies to represent a good investment so that the people themselves will deposit their savings in them. Energy is not an investment in a company because this is measured in terms of per capita and per square kilometer production in the entire population of a country. So, the goal is to distribute low-cost services, which is the task of government.

He said that he will continue to encourage the establishment of an energy and water program that would receive federal credit, approved by the U.S. National Congress, to be applied to 25-year long projects.

These would deal with integrated development of energy as well as water distribution. “If we do this in the United States, we should approach the problem in Mexico in the same way, because they are related,” he concluded.

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