The National Front To Save the Mexican Countryside (FNRCM), an association of independent Mexican farmers fighting to both save independent farmers in Mexico, and save the nation’s food supply from utter destruction under today’s usurious free trade policies, has taken off the gloves against the U.S. President Donald Trump administration’s escalating destabilization of Mexico in the fraudulent name of “fighting drugs.” On May 2, the FNRCM issued the following Open Letter addressed to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and the people of Mexico, under the title, “It Is Time To Put an End to Blackmail and Restore National Sovereignty.”
May 7—Ever since the infamous Opium Wars, orchestrated by the British Empire against the Chinese people in the mid-19th Century, drug trafficking has been established as a tool and extension of colonial policies designed to violate sovereignty and subjugate nations.
Those imperial interests remain in force today. In recent decades, they have taken control of the U.S. government’s foreign policy, embedded within Anglo-American banking and financial structures. They use drug cartels as their private armies, fostering violence, terror, corruption, and the weakening of states to impose neoliberal economic policies that hinder economic growth and deepen food dependency.
These neoliberal policies took off in Mexico with the signing of NAFTA [the North American Free Trade Agreement]. In their wake, the concept of a national economy was weakened, and national intelligence and security capabilities were dismantled. The nation lost its purpose, and since then, the political class has entered a spiral of increasing corruption.
We are beginning to see government officials, governors, and mayors implicated in corruption scandals and linked to drug trafficking. It is against this backdrop that the U.S. government indicted the now-former Governor of Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya, and others implicated in the case, following which the Southern District Court of New York issued a summons for his appearance and the State Department may seek his extradition.
We are witnessing the typical scenario in which the corruptors sue the corrupt….
It is clear that the U.S. government’s motivation is not to combat corruption and drug trafficking. It is also clear that through drug trafficking, they have managed to corrupt politicians, to then use them as a tool for blackmail which strengthens their strategies for economic domination.
President Sheinbaum, a blackmailer exists only as long as the victim allows it. Mexico has its own institutions and the relevant international agreements to uphold the rule of law and bring to justice anyone who has broken the law and been connected to drug trafficking.
The defense of sovereignty does not include protecting those who, by colluding with international drug traffickers, have betrayed it, causing grave harm to the nation.
What is at stake is not the fate of a single person or a political group. What is at risk is the very existence of Mexico as a sovereign nation. We must reverse the economic policies that have left us in this vulnerable position—policies which undermine national security and erode our institutional framework.
The National Front To Save the Mexican Countryside calls on all Mexicans to unite, and reiterates the necessity of excluding staple grains from the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, as the first step in a process of protecting the domestic market, and as the basis for restoring a national credit policy that will make it possible to build up public spending, thereby setting us on the path to economic growth and food sovereignty.
In this regard, we agree with you that now is the time to defend national sovereignty above all else. It is inconsistent to pay lip service to sovereignty, while continuing to tolerate those who, driven by ambition and a thirst for political power, ally themselves with criminal interests.
