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Mexican foreign minister Marcelo Ebrard and Tijuana major Montserrat Caballero have installed near the border a segment of the Berlin Wall bearing the inscription: “May this be a lesson to build a society that knocks down walls and builds bridges.” The lesson is actually about something else.
Built in 1961, the Berlin Wall was the project of a Stalinist East German regime to prevent captive Germans from fleeing to West Berlin, where freedom prevailed. Of 140 deaths at the wall, 91 were shot dead by Communist guards. The order to shoot was not lifted until April 1989, same year the wall came down.
Mayor Caballero acknowledged that “the social and political conflict is different than the Berlin Wall.” Foreign minister Marcelo Ebrard is a more interesting case.
Ebrard served as mayor of Mexico City from 2006-2012 and mounted a failed campaign for president in 2011. After a stint with the Global Network of Safer Cities, Ebrard became involved in American politics.
“How a One-Time Political Star in Mexico Ended Up Campaigning for Clinton,” headlined a November 6, 2016 New Yorker profile of Ebrard by Francisco Goldman. “It was after hearing Donald Trump speak,” Ebrard explained, “that I decided to get much more involved, beyond just giving opinions. The risk represented by el Señor Trump, the things that he says, in particular about Mexico, but in general, too, are like nothing else I’ve encountered.”
According to Ebrard, Mexicans in the USA for three generations still felt threated by the “xenophobia” of Trump. As the Mexican politician said, Trump’s wall “is a publicity scheme,” and “he, like Hitler, is a good communicator.” Ebrard “decided to get more involved” by getting out the vote for Hillary Clinton.
As Goldman notes, Ebrard had “previously worked with Voto Latino, and with other voter-registration and participation groups in California, Arizona, Florida, Chicago, and elsewhere, and he is working with those groups again now.” During the 2016 campaign, Ebrard explained, he went “from being a consultant to somebody committed to direct political action.”
So a ruling-class Mexican politician openly participates in an American election, deploying “direct political action” on behalf of open-border Democrat Hillary Clinton. This all went down without any charges of collusion or election interference by American politicians and the establishment media.
Ebrard is now running for president of Mexico with the Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (MORENA) party. If the candidate wants to teach an historical lesson, Ebrard might dial it back to 1968, in the run-up to the Mexico City Olympics.
On October 2, 1968, several thousand students gathered in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, the main square in the Tlatelolco neighborhood of Mexico City. According to British journalist Robert Trevor, in the crowd that day, “The majority of these protesters throughout this era were college and high school students who sought to make a better Mexico for them and their children to grow up in. These protests never turned physical for the students.”
In Trevor’s account, Mexican government troops began firing on the crowd from the surrounding rooftops, joined by helicopters. The government claimed only 25 casualties, including seven policemen, but Trevor knew that hundreds had been killed. The official figures and names of those murdered, arrested and imprisoned were never released.
The ruling Partido Revolutionario Institucional (PRI) regime, which had dominated Mexico since the 1920s, conducted no investigation. President Diaz Ordaz and interior minister Luis Echeverria faced no charges and Echeverria, who became president in 1970, maintained the same pattern of violence.
On June 10, 1971, government-trained paramilitary forces attacked peaceful protesters at the Santo Tomás campus of the National Polytechnical Institute. An estimated 120 perished in what has become known as the Corpus Christi Massacre. Nobody faced charges and the PRI regime continued to cover up both attacks and smother dissent across the country.
The PRI regimes continued until 2000 when Coca-Cola magnate Vincente Fox of the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) took power, but this was little more than a change of labels. The PRI continued to dominate Mexican institutions and Fox maintained the coverup.
In 2001 Fox ordered a special prosecutor for the crimes of the past but nothing came of it, and the president blocked release of information. In 2007, architect Rosa Maria Alvarado found bodies buried under a hospital near the massacre site. Mexican police threatened violence if she went public with the revelation.
In 2014, students at a Mexican teacher college commandeered busses to attend demonstrations commemorating the a1968 massacre. Mexican police attacked the students, killing six and dragging off 43 others. The PRI government claimed they had been taken by a drug gang and incinerated in a garbage dump.
Six months after the murder-kidnapping former president Vincente Fox appeared on Univision and said “it’s about time” the parents give up their demands on the Mexican government and “accept reality.”
In September 2018, Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, showed up at Tlatelolco plaza pledging to “never ever use the military to repress the Mexican people.” As far as an investigation into the 1968 slaughter, holding PRI bosses to account, and advocacy for victims’ families, AMLO had nothing to say.
Statements on the massacre by Marcelo Ebrard are hard to find. Maybe he’ll make one on October 2, the 55th anniversary. The “one-time political star” wants to teach the USA a lesson, but as Mexicans know, he has plenty to deal with at home. Maybe Hillary Clinton can help him get out the vote.
Ebrard is running for president of Mexico. Ebrard compares Trump’s efforts to keep out illegal aliens to the Berlim Wall. Ebrard supports Hillary Clinton’s open border policy, which allows hundrerds of thousands of people, who would otherwise stay in Mexico and vote for HIM, to go to the U.S. and vote for CLINTON
The Berlin wall was put up to keep people IN.
So, does Mexico want to keep people in Mexico?
I’m confused.
They don’t want a wall
They apparently want all tje Mexicans to LEAVE
I wish they would put up a wall to make Mexicans stay in Mexico. And Guatemalans, Salvadorans, Nicaraguans, and so on. We don’t need any more people here. It’s getting crowded, and sooner or later somebody will take over my parking place.
Former Prez Fox, despicable, visited Yakima and Tri-Cities Washington in order to gather votes (from all the illegals there) to support his run in MX DF.
Funny how Mexico has built a wall on it’s southern border, yet the United States can’t do the same.
Nobody is fleeing to any of the “free” countries, just the evil western ones
Luis Echeverria also aspired to have Mexico play a larger role international politics (especially the so called Non Alligned Movement) and the capstone of his career was to be elected United Nations Secretary General, since Mexican presidents are limited to one six year term. In 1975 Mexico voted for the infamous UN resolution equating Zionism with racism. It was a mystery to many, since Mexico had normal relations with Israel and the Middle East conflict was so peripheral to Mexico. The “Yes” vote on that resolution spawned an economically painfully tourist boycott of Mexico. Echeverria was trying to suck up to Arab countries in the hope they’d support his campaign to get elected UN Secretary General.
Unfortunately for Echeverria, the Soviets swung support to Kurt Waldheim. They knew about his Nazi war criminal past, which made him vulnerable to blackmail (that past also no doubt appealed to many Arab states). Echeverria’s role in the Tlatelolco and Corpus Christi massacres didn’t hurt him with the United Nations, but Waldheim’s Nazi past made him the more popular with the Soviets and Arabs.
We need a total wall around the UN and need them confined to their little place we can do without the UN Terrorists supporters
We should relocate UN to anywhere outside the USA and defund ASAP. A worthless group of fools.
Tools of satan!
Interesting article. Hmm, how did Mexico obtain a piece of the Berlin Wall?
Ebrard is just another bad actor, precisely what the US doesn’t need interfering in 2024.
Possibly. Or better, send the UN to the Middle East.
He follows Lopez Obrador’s example.
What an ostentatious display of ignorance by Ebrard and Caballero.
Caballero reminds me of the adage about not throwing stones, etc. Some 25 years ago, the then major of TJ ordered all of the TJ police force to turn in their guns and start using “slingshots”. Yes, SLINGSHOTS!
Why? Because of internal corruption, faith had been completely lost in the TJ police dept. They came to believe the fuzz was working with the Cartels. I had cousins working for that dept at the time, that’s how i know.
Lesson: Ebrard and Caballero should clean their own houses first before ragging on others abput their’s.
The Cartels offer two outcomes to prospective “friends”: enrichment or annihilation.
They enrich themselves from US consumption of drugs, and blame their success on the appetites of US consumers.
Perhaps it is time to make drug use a capital crime.
Mexico has this all wrong. The Berlin Wall was terrible because it forced people to stay in whereas the Wall on the Mexican Border is to Keep People Out. And that is why it is Mexico and always will be.
Marcelo Ebrard and Tijuana major Montserrat Caballero have utilized typical the tool of the left – compare two different things, and call them the same thing. The Berlin Wall was built by communists to forcibly keep their people in to enslave them. The Trump wall was built to keep people from illegally entering the United States, and to protect American citizens. Foreigners illegally or legally entering the US is not a human right. It is a privilege granted by being issued a legal visitation visa, or Green card through the designated process.