The WikiLeaks wave has now moved to Latin America, where newspapers around the region have been supplied with U.S. diplomatic cables from local U.S. Embassies. This article by columnist Luis Hernandez Navarro of Mexico’s La Jornada underscores the tremendous damage the cables have done to the credibility of President Felipe Calderon, and the fear that many Mexicans have of a U.S. invasion.
For La Jornada, Luis Hernandez Navarro writes in part:
These materials are a kind of X-ray of influence in Mexico, the degree of subjugation of Mexican authorities to the designs of Washington, the failure of President Felipe Calderon’s fight against narco-trafficking, the impunity of the nation’s system of law enforcement and the enormous social inequalities that prevail in our nation.
This X-ray reveals a clear diagnosis of the nation’s public health, which is alarming and outrageous. Never in history has such a vast and enormous amount of information about the nature of power in Mexico been disseminated to the public.
Since February 16, more information from the U.S. diplomatic cables has been intermittently published that offers an image of power in Mexico that is as bleak as it is deplorable. One cable documents how then-presidential candidate Felipe Calderon, held to a double standard on the border wall, when he discloses to the U.S. Embassy his decision to make public statements opposing the [U.S.] border wall, “because I cannot afford to lose votes to AMLO [Andres Manuel Lopes Obrador],” adding that it wasn’t his intention to stoke the debate.
They show that warnings about the loss of national sovereignty made by the most apocalyptic critics were not exaggerated. And they remind us that the struggle for national liberation is not the outdated nostalgia of nationalists, but a necessity that is the order of the day.
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