Thursday, 4 April 2013

Interpol: An Instrument of Political Persecution


In recent years, the Mexican government has devoted itself pursuing the people who it considers its enemies. Those people are considered to be enemies because they oppose the government’s interests or because they have fought to defend democracy with their ideas, strategies and principles, and to usher in a welfare system that is fairer and more balanced for the most vulnerable groups, among them the working class.
In order to achieve this objective, those in government have used threats, repression, corruption and even the cruellest and most sinister dententions and assassinations that a modern society could imagine. Particularly in the period between 2000 and 2012, the PAN (National Action Party) governments led by Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón devoted themselves to deforming the state of law and perverting the application of justice. This was coupled with major inefficiencies in public administration and increased corruption which completed our country’s collapse. This was marked by: worsening marginalisation and poverty, a lack of honesty and transparency, insecurity, the loss of jobs and opportunities, the handing over of the country’s resources to foreign hands, the shameful subjugation to the country’s most conservative and hypocritical corporate groups, and the xenophobic and demented repression of democratic and independent union organisations.
With this corrupt mentality they politically pursued their adversaries using all sorts of arbitrary actions, illegal means and abuses of power. One of these methods, favoured due to its inherent perversity and cowardice, has been the manipulation of Interpol in order to threaten their opponents and confine them one place in which they are forced to remain so as not to run the risk of being arrested without justification, thereby eluding the hatred of their pursuers who have employed the media to manipulate and shock them by threatening the use of Interpol’s Red Notices for the purpose of detention and eventual extradition.
In my particular case, for the last seven years they have absurdly and unfoundedly attempted to maintain a Red Notice based solely on manipulation and deception, basing it on lies and slander and through public attacks by corrupt media and journalists. To their disgrace, these attacks are totally ignored outside Mexico. Fox, Calderón, Marta Sahagún, as well as their partners, employees and complicit businesspeople, have deceived themselves into thinking that the rest of the world shares their dirty, perverse mentality.
They corrupted judges and media, and shameless, abject, mercenary lawyers with no ethical criteria, who set themselves up as the dross of the noble legal profession, and of course they corrupted unscrupulous individuals recruited from the scum of the union movement. To their humiliation and frustration, none of this helped achieve their disgraceful aims.
From the start, the Canadian government rejected all this unfounded rubbish based on untruths, and instead they offered me better protection and gave me a home in this great country, which has one of the most noble and correct justice systems, and higher levels of education, of security, of social wellbeing, of solidarity and of respect anywhere in the world. The Mexican government’s slanderous and maligning theatre collapsed and was swept away into ridicule and disgrace, before the indifference of those in power.
At the same time, distinguished, brave and honest judges and magistrates whose decisions salvage the little honesty and confidence that remain in the Mexican legal system, unanimously resolved in the First Collegiate Tribunal in Criminal Matters of the First Circuit that Interpol Mexico and the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PRG) violated the Constitution when they imposed that unfounded Red Notice which was motivated only by their morbid political persecution. This dignified decision in my favour makes it clear once more that although there are judges, magistrates and ministers of the Court who are merely taking orders, there are others who are honest and brave who will not let themselves be pressured, corrupted or intimidated, and they save the image of Mexican Judiciary Power.
The excellent decision from the First Collegiate Tribunal in Criminal Matters, which is based on the principles on justice and respect for democracy and human rights, as well as the wise strategy of the Los Mineros legal defence, exposed the most serious aspect of this situation, which must be analysed in depth by jurists and political scientists as well as by the current government itself. Interpol Mexico has no representation or legal validity given that when it was created as a dependent directorate of the PGR and was affiliated to International Interpol, it did so without the legally required approval or ratification from the Senate of the Republic.
What is more, Interpol Mexico maintained that Red Notice entirely illegally, that is to say, for the last three years they were in violation of the Constitution, knowing that the illegitimate arrest warrants had already been removed precisely because they were unconstitutional.
Enrique Peña Nieto’s government now has before it the huge task of applying justice correctly so as to act honourably and improve the image of Mexico abroad, because readers can be sure of one thing: if this had happened in Canada, or in any developed country, the civil servants who acted outside the law, like Fox and Calderón and their crowd of collaborators and complicit businesspeople, would not only have lost their jobs, but they, the real criminals, would have been imprisoned and would still be in prison today.

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