Press release
LaRouche Addresses Students in Monterrey, Mexico: This Crisis is Not Necessary
April 18, 2008 (LPAC)--U.S. statesman Lyndon H. LaRouche today addressed a packed auditorium of 240 people, at least 200 of them students, at one of Mexico's most elite universities, the Monterrey Institute for Technological and Higher Studies (ITESM), hosted by the student associations of both the International Relations and the Economics Departments.
LaRouche, who has spoken at the Monterrey campus of the ITESM three times before, is an institution there. In introducing LaRouche, one of the student hosts told the audience that they were going to hear from one of the most important men in the world, a man who had run for President of the United States, who had ideas which are crucial, and they should listen. The response from those present, as LaRouche spoke and then answered 6 or 8 questions, was excellent, with tremendous applause and uproarious laughter at various times--especially when he declared that the economists are all wrong, and know nothing.
LaRouche laid out the collapse of the world economy and his three measures to address that collapse, in the context of the great conflict which has determined the sweep of history since the 1890's: the conflict between the British imperial power which seeks to keep the majority of the people stupid and nations undeveloped, and the United States as expressed in Franklin Delano Roosevelt's commitment to eradicate imperialism from the planet. There is no need or reason for this crisis we face today, he declared; it is a result of the imperial desire to control the world through war, and to keep people and nations in backwardness. Malthusians are the curse of the planet; we must eradicate the policy of under-development and anti-development, of genocide, and go back to Roosevelt. who understood that issue of civilization. If we develop the powers of mind of our peoples, there is no reason ever to have an economic depression, and you, who are young, can change the planet over the next 50 years.
LaRouche's presentation followed two days of events, which included two radio shows, in which LaRouche blasted the British Empire for its crimes in creating the food crisis, and trying to steal Mexico's oil; and an indepth discussion with a delegation of the Pro-PLHINO Committee, a group from the state of Sonora which is fighting to implement a tri-state Northwest Mexico hydraulic plan, that would direct water into arid areas which, with irrigation, could become a flourishing agricultural region once again. The Pro-PLHINO Committee was represented by Antonio Valdez Villanueva, Secretary General of the CTM grade union confederation in Ciudad Obregon, Sonora; Vicente Solis, advisor to the State Executive Board of the CTM of Sonora; and Alberto Vizcarra O. and Jesus Maria Martinez, both members of the LaRouche Movement in Sonora.
