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Flu Epidemic: If You Undermine a President You Undermine a Nation

April 27, 2009 (LPAC)—Mexican authorities today announced that all public and private schools in Mexico City, the state of Mexico, and San Luis Potosi would remain closed until May 6, in an effort to prevent the spread of the swine flu which has already killed 81 people in that country. Likewise, all sports and entertainment events, as well as the celebration of Sunday religious services, have been suspended indefinitely.

But even as the government was taking these minimal, appropriate public health measures, the Health Secretary of Mexico City, Armando Ahued, had to admit today that the scheduled major cuts in water supplied to Mexico City residents and businesses, which are planned for May 1-4, would likely seriously worsen the spread of the deadly influenza. The water cuts are due to a drought in Mexico, and dangerously low water levels in the Cutzamala system and related dams, which in turn is the result of decades of disastrous disinvestment in basic economic infrastructure, especially urgently needed water projects.

Leading U.S. economist Lyndon LaRouche today put the crisis into broader, sharper focus:

"What's the mystery?" about the high morbidity rates of the swine flu in Mexico, as compared to the U.S. "Go through the country, and what do you think the risk factors are that define that? It's as obvious as hell!"

Mexico's physical economy has been torn to shreds over the last 25 years of British free trade and globalization policies, especially under NAFTA. Food production and consumption have plummeted. Poverty and unemployment have grown dramatically. The population's nutritional and overall immunological levels are sinking rapidly, and drug consumption among youth is rising dangerously. Over the last 25 years, 13 million Mexicans fled to the U.S. as economic refugees, in desperate search of sustenance, and now millions of them are being driven back to Mexico as the U.S. economy sinks into deep depression. They are returning to no jobs, no health care, no infrastructure—and, worst of all, no hope.

"What is happening in Mexico is a result of the operation against Jose Lopez Portillo," Mexico's nation-building President from 1976 to 1982, who allied with Lyndon LaRouche to try to defend his country against financial warfare by the City of London and Wall Street. "Some people in Mexico today," LaRouche explained, "will say: 'Well, we couldn't do this, we couldn't do that...' You couldn't do this, because of what was done to Lopez Portillo. You are paying the price for trying to destroy Lopez Portillo. You try to destroy the President of Mexico, you demoralize the country, and now you wonder why you've got a problem? This is the time to revive the spirit of Lopez Portillo, and unite all the patriots of Mexico in one bucket," LaRouche said.


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