Question: My name is Abraham. My question is somewhat more concrete: What is the role of Mexican youth in the world, and the transformation of the world?

LaRouche: Mexico probably has the most important position of any nation below the U.S. border. The reasons are largely historical. For example, Mexico had to fight against the worst from Europe, more than anyone else. I mean, in more recent times, other things have happened to other countries, but Mexico faced the brunt of it, with the attempt to prevent, initially from Spain, the independence of the emerging nations of the Americas, especially those below the U.S. border. So, this history of Mexico and its proximity to the United States, has put Mexico in a very special position among all the states of the Americas. Mexico has an implicit constitution, in addition to the formal Constitution, which is extremely relevant.

Mexico also has within it, because of the influence from the Nazis, and from Napoleon III's occupation of Mexico, has a history of fight within Mexico against Synarchism, or what is called Synarchism in this century, this past century. So, Mexico is in the forefront: Mexico has faced both the attack by the synarchists from the left, and the attack by the synarchists from the right.

For example, Soustelle. Take the case of Jacques Soustelle, a perfect example. Jacques Soustelle was an agent, specifically, of a group of influences from France, based around the association of Schlumberger, Mallet, de Neuflize. This is typified in the Western Hemisphere by the case of Jean de Menil, based out of Houston, Texas, who was the husband of the Madame Schlumberger, who was very important in this area. And these three people, Paul Rivet--the teacher of Soustelle operating in Peru; de Menil out of Houston; Schlumberger operating in Caracas; and Soustelle operating in Mexico City, actually represented the left, the so-called pro-Marxist left in Peru, in Mexico, and so forth. They became the core of the left wing of the Synarchist network, throughout the Caribbean region and below.

You're being hit now from that. This takes the form of the indigenist movement against the Mexican Republic. That's your "left,” and things like that. Then the "right,” the pseudo-Catholics of the right, who are the enemies of the present Pope--which is a crazy position for a Catholic to have, but they have that--who are essentially in the tradition of William Buckley, Sr., who is a key figure in orchestrating both sides in the Cristeros War of the 1920s. So Mexico has faced--in the form of Woodrow Wilson's policy in the period of the First World War--Mexico has faced the brunt of the troubles in the United States and from the United States, more than any other nation.

Mexico is also a powerful nation, implicitly. It's been much destroyed since 1982, when Mexico was a much more powerful nation, when Lopéz Portillo was still President. And you look back to Lopéz Portillos' address to the United Nations in October of 1982, you see the voice, the spirit, of the actual Mexico and its leading role in the hemisphere, is clearly displayed.

In more recent times, Mexico has come upon poorer times, with poorer influence and much foreign oppression, particularly with the transformation of the Bank of Mexico into an instrument of foreign power, and of the worst kind of foreign power. So therefore, that's crucial.

Look, for example: When Lopéz Portillo was fighting, and I was involved in that, as some of you know, with a discussion with him and with other people throughout the hemisphere, in fighting around the issue of the Malvinas War and the things that went with it; when he initially made his resistance to the raid on Mexico's finances in 1982, he had the initial backing both from the junta of Argentina, and the President of Brazil, both of whom, under U.S. pressure, backed off from supporting Lopéz Portillo.

So, the President of Mexico was isolated, politically, in the hemisphere, but nonetheless, he went to New York, to the United Nations, and delivered this historic address, which every patriotic Mexican should read again today. This historic address shows the true Mexico, the essence of Mexico, the essence of Mexico's brave leadership within the hemisphere. And it shows also the importance of Mexico, relative to the efforts of Brazil and Argentina today. Mexico is still number one in the hemisphere in this particular fight.

Therefore, being youth in Mexico, in particular, you actually carry a legacy, even from people you do not personally know, that the intellectual youth of Mexico, when organized in a patriotic venture, not only on behalf of Mexico itself but on behalf of the hemisphere, on behalf of justice on the planet, represent a powerful force, albeit only an intellectual force--but it's that kind of intellectual force that makes the greatest revolutions in human history.

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