The National Front To Save the Mexican Countryside (FNRCM), an association of independent Mexican farmers fighting to save Mexican farmers and the nation’s food supply from utter destruction under today’s usurious free trade policies, this week took off the gloves on the Trump administration’s destabilization operation unleashed against Mexico’s government in the fraudulent name of “fighting drugs.” The FNRCM issued an Open Letter addressed to President Claudia Sheinbaum and the people of Mexico, titled “It Is Time to Put an End to Blackmail and Restore National Sovereignty.” It opens:
“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 gained momentum in Mexico with the signing of NAFTA [the North American Free Trade Accord]. 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.”
Yes, officials, governments and mayors have become corrupted by the drug-traffickers, but in these indictments and extradition requests by the Trump administration “we are witnessing the typical scenario in which the corruptors sue the corrupt. As Loretta Lynch, the Deputy Attorney General under the Obama administration, once stated, `The United States’ fight against foreign corruption is not a service we provide to the international community, but a necessary coercive action to protect our own interests and the ability of U.S. companies to compete globally.’
“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, only to use them as a tool for blackmail that allows them to deepen their economic strategies of domination,” the farmers charged.
“President Sheinbaum, a blackmailer only exists 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 linked to drug trafficking….
“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 that 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 need to exclude staple grains from the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, as the first step in a process to protect the domestic market, and as the basis for restoring a national credit policy that will enable the revitalization of public spending, thereby setting us on the path to economic growth and food sovereignty….”
