The following is a translation of the introduction by Excelsior to the second half of Lyndon LaRouche's interview. To read the text of the complete interview itself, click here.

Lyndon LaRouche, a controversial personality who aspires to the Presidency of the United States for the sixth time, and who affirms that he is qualified for this post, when asked what opinion President Vicente Fox merits, responds, that what "concerns" him is the institution of the Presidency of Mexico, a country of which he is a "long-standing friend." He also warns that the war against Iraq--"an unconscionable abomination"--"would precipitate a collapse of the world economy, and of trade, from which every national economy, including Mexico's, would suffer monstrously."

LaRouche--founder of the U.S. Labor Party and political groups of similar names in various countries, such as Mexico, and who asserts “I have no kinship” with either the left, or the right, or the center, but rather is the principal intellectual representative of the “American system of political economy so described by Alexander Hamilton”--preferred to answer in writing various questions formulated by Excelsior during his visit to Mexico. He turned down a live interview, given time limitations.

“Under the conditions of global economic collapse such a war with Iraq would trigger, supply would exceed demand to such degree that no net advantage to Mexico's position as a petroleum-exporting nation would occur. Quite the contrary,” he warns.

LaRouche --80 years old-- is a man dedicated to economics and politics, the latter activity for which he was persecuted even to the point of being jailed during the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. The author of the persecution was Henry A. Kissinger, who, as Secretary of State [sic], began in 1983 the greatest intelligence and counter-intelligence operation in history harmful to a single individual, a U.S. citizen.

He proposes--on another subject--that Mexico play a “mediating role” between the United States and Cuba, “in reaching the relevant changes in trading relations.” He expresses his confidence that “a discussion of practical steps toward that would be on the agenda of early discussions between the Presidencies of the U.S.A. and Mexico.”

Born in Rochester, New Hampshire, LaRouche studied economics at Northeast University in Boston, Massachusetts. His greatest professional accomplishment was the discovery of the so-called LaRouche-Riemann Method, applied to the economy. He is the author of various books on economic matters, as also on political science.

Known also as an economic forecaster, he maintains that eight of his nine forecasts of the United States economy's behavior have turned out to be correct. The ninth, he says, is in the process of being confirmed, precisely by the developments of the U.S. economy.

When inquired about his ideological and political convictions, LaRouche likes to say that he is “a Roosevelt democrat.” In his exact words: “I represent the President Franklin D. Roosevelt current of the U.S. Democratic Party, and am the opponent of those who have rejected his tradition in the party.”

It is worth pointing out that LaRouche was 11 years old when Roosevelt was elected President for the first time. When this President died, LaRouche was 23 years old, and was, as a soldier, in a battlefront in Asia.

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