FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16
PROGRAM # 8267 12:00 PM PT
Mexico Edition.
As Mexico presidential elections approach, in public squares and university campuses, citizens supporting the opposition speak of the need to end the current regime headed by the PRI. The National Indigenous Council and its spokesperson, known as Marichuy, are calling to organize the resistance to rescue the country from those who have kidnapped it. Well known scholars talk about a necessary nonviolent revolution. The first step, they say, will be to defeat the electoral fraud that is already underway, and that can only be overcome by voting. They will have to follow up with a fight so that the vote is respected. Others say that democracy in Mexico will be possible when the ruling party, usually called the PRI, is finished. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this broadcast of the Voz Pública program, from México City.
Guests: (audio segments) Pablo González Casanova, Former President, National Autonomous University of México – UNAM; Juan Villoro, Author; members of the Organization Organización Llegó la Hora del Florecimiento de los Pueblos; María de Jesús Patricio Martínez, spokesperson for the Indigenous Council of Government; Guadalupe Vázquez Luna, indigenous survivor of Acteal’s massacre, Chiapas; Eduardo Nava, Michoacán University of San Nicolás de Hidalgo; Dr. Alexander John Main, University of Arizona, México City.
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