Question: (from Leesburg) The question here is, we have a gathering of four people of the Youth Movement, and we all--we organize in Spanish and English, and our question here is, what's going to be our role once you are President, in the different nations? Well, we come from Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, and Mexico--right now here, we have all these four countries, represented by the four people. What's going to be our role to make these measures reality, once you're President, in our different countries?

LaRouche: Well, look back to 1982, to the paper I wrote, which was published just before the crisis in Mexico occurred in August of that year: Operation Juárez, which lays out a general policy for the Americas, and U.S. relationship with the nations of Central and South America. Now, where there's some technical differences in the circumstances then, and now, the essence of the policy, as laid out there, in 1982, is our continued policy essentially today.

And, when you look at what I've proposed, in terms of large-scale projects internationally, and my key role in meetings with representatives of other nations, in working out the guidelines for agreements to this effect, that, obviously, my view, is that the United States, as a point of reference--the Presidency of the United States, as a point of reference, for bringing the world into order, as an order among a community of sovereign nation-states, united by principle.

Now, in practice, the economic functioning of various parts of the world is regional. That is, Europe is, in a sense, a region. Asia and Southeast Asia are a region. The area of Russia, the Koreas, and Japan is a sub-region. That is, these nations have such close interrelationships, relative to their relationship to other parts of the world, or even the larger region, that they have a special functional characteristic, and special functional requirements.

Therefore, I think about Eurasia; I think about West Asia, such as the Arab world and Turkey; I think about Africa, I think about northern Africa, which is essentially Arab Africa, and southern Africa, or Sub-Saharan Africa. I think about Central and South America as a region, with very close relations, very similar kinds of problems and close cooperation over the coming period.

So therefore, my view of this part of the world, of Central and South America, is a special view of the United States relationship to the functional interrelationships, the requirements of the region there. And I think in terms of things, as I laid out in terms of Operation Juárez. I have a similar, but different view, of what the reality is, in Eurasia; and I have a kindred, but different view of the requirements of U.S. policy toward Africa, especially Sub-Saharan Africa.

But, essentially that's the way. My function is, now, is to use the political power, the historical position of the Presidency of the United States, as a point of reference to unite the world, or at least most of it, around the idea of creating a permanent community of respectively sovereign nation-states; sovereign nation-states, which by virtue of their proximity and other features of their situation, will have special relations, and special requirements, as a region, with respecting to neighboring nation-states.

But, nonetheless, essentially, a single world, composed of perfectly sovereign nation-states, who, together form a community of principle, of common principle among them, and have, from time to time, special requirements because of regional and other considerations. And therefore, my relationship of course, to the Western Hemisphere, to the Americas, is special: Because the relationship of the United States to the nations of the Americas, is historically special, since the beginning of our own struggle for independence and liberty, here in the United States.

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