We are in a crisis of the total system which must be faced: Bartlett Diaz

2012-01-26 04:00:00

Manuel Bartlett Diaz in a lengthy interview 
that made ​​executives and reporters of this 
publishing house

Manuel Bartlett Diaz (MBD) has returned to the state that ruled for nearly 20 years. It does so as a candidate to the Senate, but not the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)-the political institution in which he fought all his life, but championed by the Workers' Party (PT) and supporting the cause Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador leads.

Former federal interior minister paid a visit to the premises of La Jornada de Oriente (JO). In an extensive interview with executives and reporters made ​​this publishing house, Bartlett talked about how he was always on the wing of the tricolor claimed social justice and revolutionary nationalism, of their struggle, since it occupied the Palace of Covián against the technocracy and how the PRI and the country eventually turn to the right when Carlos Salinas de Gortari won the presidency of the Republic.

He referred to the fruits that has given the marriage between the PRI and the National Action Party (PAN) with retrograde laws-some even sneak a fascist, that individual rights, the organization and repress social protest and have widened to levels never before seen the gap between rich and poor.

That brace of a PRI "derechizado" with National Action, he added, has had its replica in Puebla, where the PRI behave submissively, as comparsa Governor Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, appearing as a "confused opposition."

In contrast, the former governor of Puebla, who already held a seat for two terms of six years, praised the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), which he defines as "a genuine social force, strong and surprising." Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says he is "the only truly popular leader in the country and the only real change is."

Bartlett finishes warning that, as a champion of the left, its mission is "to give a cleaned Puebla" and particularly "shake the PRI."

The talk is initiated by Bartlett Diaz with a diagnosis of the country, talking about a deep crisis that is not limited to economics, but has transferred to politics, social life, institutions and even moral. In sum, says, afflicts the country a "total crisis" and must confront.

"I think this election is crucial, I've never seen the country so badly as now. We have had financial crises, but this is a total crisis, a crisis of governance, is a crisis of state, a comprehensive crisis beyond an economic crisis. It is a moral crisis so. It has been decomposing in the management of the State, public affairs, corruption is widespread. I'm not trying to justify to anyone, it is generally awful, terrible, a country with a moral decline in the public sector in the governorate. Is an economic crisis, employment, social crisis is acute, not circumstantial, is not like the other crises we have had, because here you lost control, there was a financial imbalance, "he says.

He adds, "we see growing poverty, wealth and have more concentrated than we could have. What has led to this situation? ... No, not this crisis has brought us the current U.S. and Europe, which recently broke out, ours is much older than that, is more acute as presents additional challenges that Europe has no economic activity not buy, sell and America is the same, but the problem is that we have no domestic market, rather than an exporting country are an importing country, then it is dramatic because it assumes that globalization leads countries to market integration, but we are an importing country, we are exporting many things, but these exports, if we begin to analyze, they are much of multinationals that sell cars to the U.S.. Then it is a total system crisis. "

Bartlett Diaz then refers to the problem of violence and militarization of the country:

"The safety issue we generated several problems, we generated the militarization of the country. This country was not militarized, we assumed an army barracks, doing civil work, participating in civil defense programs, according to farmers (users) out there with Operation Condor, but was in the barracks, did not see the Army in the streets. "

To give an example of what is happening with the militia, Bartlett Diaz recalls the episode in which Gen. Alfonso Duarte complained in September last year, with Baja California Gov. Jose Guadalupe Osuna Millan, the behavior of Secretary of Government, Cuauhtemoc Cardona.

"Today the army is everywhere, has taken control of the police do not know if remember a scene that was terrible in Baja California after the report of the governor to enter the room, heard a scream and go into the general area, the governor, prying cameras are working, then yells General (Cardona) 'Come here you, you're a Bum!' and puts it in front of the governor. It is a scene, well, that placing military to civilian authority despised, is berating the authorities, that is very serious, that brings us another side to the disproportionate military spending since we do banana republic, as he spent all those South American resources on armies and weapons and had no schools, this is happening, it goes there. "

Then refers to the intrigue of Felipe Calderon Hinojosa by given contracts on natural resources like oil and mining.

Then goes on to talk about Enrique Peña Nieto, who says that "your party is Televisa." He criticizes the PRI presidential candidate statements about repealing the law that prevents the media propaganda space-charge during campaigns.

"Linking the PRI candidate pointer ferocious and insatiable these interests and bring others besides, it is certainly a danger, to use Spanish well, a danger to this country. Then the candidate pointer with all the strength back is the continuity of what is happening, is the Mexican drama.

JO - Is that why you agreed to join the left?

MBD-What we need is a change, calls for urgent change. There is a relationship years ago matches motivated by many years in government, in the Senate, marched up together! ...

JO-Con Cuauhtemoc Cardenas Solorzano ...

MBD-Yes, Cuauhtémoc, but I talked a lot with Senator (Alberto) Anaya (national leader of the Labour Party) and the invitation extended to me is to go to the Senate because they need people to give battle, like the one the Senate gave above (the force), six years ago.

JO - Why Left today is defined, or does it always been a leftist?

MBD-is ​​the position I have ever had. Formally he was in a left-wing party when it was. The PRI gives rise to the left ...

JO-A few ...

MBD-An important part is of PRI, there is such as Cuauhtémoc (Cardenas) in Salinas, is the power of Lopez Obrador, is the Communist Party and those things are also important at the time. I hear many say "I am left," and what is that?, I answer what Bobbio says: "Left is a movement that stands for equality ', ie has a policy, strategy, an act of equality in society, that says Bobbio.

JO - That is the definition that pleases you?

MBD-Yes, there are leftist Trotskyites, Marxists, Maoists, finally, there were all these ranges, but with a common thread. The old PRI or former PRI had to democracy and social justice principles. The Constitution was ahead of social guarantees, so you could have qualified as a leftist party, which then has an open shift to the right.

JO - So you stayed in the same place, which were moved others?

MBD-so it proved.

JO - Holds his early 20 years ago?

MBD-Essentially I think so. Here I have things I have written, I have had positions, do not think that has changed radically, nor have I been invited to transform.

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