Nerlda vargas: Mexicans are choosing the future of their nation today

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NerIda Vargas, Mexican migrant leader in the United States, joining us to give us her opinion on the current elections.  TeleSUR

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00:00 We're joined by Nerida Vargas, who is a Mexican migrant leader in the United States.

00:05 Hello Nerida, can you hear us?

00:07 Welcome to Mexico Decides.

00:08 Hi, thank you for having me in your program.

00:14 It's a pleasure.

00:15 So tell us, how have you lived this election day?

00:18 It's very historical for us.

00:21 It's the first time in the United States that Mexican election is being placed.

00:26 And 23 Mexican consulates in the whole world.

00:32 Nine of those consulates are in California, which is where we live.

00:37 In California we have nine Mexican consulates.

00:40 There have been a lot of the people that come to fight for their rights to vote.

00:49 And we are very pleased to have a lot of Mexicans that they decide the future that we're going

00:56 to have first time in history election a woman as a president of Mexico.

01:05 That is clear.

01:07 And of course, this is an election that will have a huge impact in the region.

01:11 So I wanted to break down a little bit, what are the options for international audience?

01:16 What are the options that are at stake here in the Mexican election?

01:20 So let's begin by watching a little material from Claudia Sheinbaum, and then you'll tell

01:26 us your opinion on this candidate.

01:28 Let's go with Claudia Sheinbaum.

01:30 She's a doctor, a scientific, and she is very pleasured.

01:38 She was here in Los Angeles, California last year in October of 2023.

01:44 I was there to listen to her information that what she's planning to do for all the Mexicans,

01:52 even though that we are in the United States, we're still Mexicans before migrants.

01:58 We are Mexicans and we need to have a government that listen to us too.

02:02 And she's one of the very important leaders that we have since 1990s in Mexico.

02:09 So we have, she is being really good to listen to all the information that we, in the needs

02:19 that we have for all the families and community that we have in this 52 Mexican consulates

02:25 that we always need for all our process, the documentation that we, as a Mexican, we need

02:31 to pursue in the United States.

02:35 And Nerida, this election have been widely regarded as an election really on the continuity

02:41 of the project, the political project of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

02:46 And that is what's at stake with that and the opposition.

02:49 What is your view on this idea of watching this elections as really a quest of the continuity

02:55 of this project?

02:56 That's true.

02:57 That's the continuation.

02:58 Dr. Schoenbart is the continuation of the government that we need for Mexico, because

03:09 we need to make a stop down all the corruption they've been doing.

03:16 So for any way is election and democracy, we need to have our democracy, even though

03:24 whoever is, when continuation, when Dr. Schoenbart, she will also continue on his work.

03:31 So the voice is in the Mexicans.

03:35 Wherever we decide, if we decide to continue his work, President Obrador, we want to have

03:42 a change and learning for what we have in the six years and changing for a good or what

03:49 we decide to do in continuation.

03:52 Now Nerida, these elections are also particular in terms of the opposition, really.

03:58 Both traditional parties from Mexico have gathered together to face the ruling Morena

04:04 and the coalition in which it takes part.

04:08 So what is your take?

04:11 How would you explain to an international audience, how can we understand the opposition,

04:15 the Mexican opposition in this election?

04:19 The engineer, she is very social activist at the beginning of his political life.

04:29 She was very good in Mexican and Native Indians.

04:35 And she was a strategy for also changing and nutritional for kids.

04:42 She has a lot of good programs too.

04:44 So the work that she has to do is to change and learn for all the mistakes that the previous

04:51 government they did.

04:52 And like I'm saying, for us, being in outside of Mexico doesn't take in as any rights.

04:58 So we need to have the right to decide because we're still continuing going and providing

05:03 with all the money that we sent to Mexico.

05:08 We have the power for the border community, border economics.

05:12 We provide to the Mexican economic during the COVID-19 a lot of help.

05:19 Of course, we are really a lot of economic help in the U.S. because we are the workers

05:24 that we've been providing economic and moving in the United States too.

05:28 So she is a business owner, but she knows that she needs to provide employment to also

05:38 to the Mexican people so they stay in Mexico and they don't have to immigrate to the United

05:42 States.

05:44 And now we have a third option in this election, even though polls are saying that it would

05:49 be the third runner up to the presidency.

05:52 Also Jorge Alvarez-Mainez is competing.

05:54 How would you describe his position, his candidacy in this election?

06:00 I'm being lucky because I meet all three as a leader Mexican immigrant in the United States.

06:06 So I had the opportunity to meet with all three in different ways and meetings that

06:13 we have here.

06:14 We listen to them.

06:15 So, Mainez is really younger, very younger, enthusiastic candidate.

06:21 He has a lot of potential with the younger people, even with the kids.

06:26 A lot of the kids know his publicity that he has when he's a song for being in a president

06:34 election is all the kids in Mexico, they know the song.

06:39 And also a lot of other people in other countries, they know their song.

06:43 They're really popular song that being a play in place for his candidacy.

06:49 And he is really younger.

06:50 He has a lot of potential.

06:51 He's very smart.

06:53 And probably in the future, he has a lot of things to do for Mexico.

06:57 I think right here, he come a little bit late in the election, but he is really smart guy.

07:03 I know him and he's going to do a lot of potential in the future, even though he's not as a president

07:08 probably because he has not too much popularity in his party, but probably in the future,

07:19 he will.

07:20 I'm pretty sure.

07:21 Now, Nereida, as a Mexican migrant leader in the United States, of course, the relationship

07:28 between Mexico and the United States is also always a very relevant topic to understand

07:34 Mexico and its role in the region.

07:37 What can we expect in the terms of the different political positions that these options have

07:43 in terms of how they would affect the relationship with the United States and the migration issue?

07:49 Yes, that's true.

07:51 We have to have the opportunity to choose really well who wants to represent Mexico

07:58 because that also affects our relationship for all the families of Mexican migrants that

08:03 we have here in the United States.

08:05 And of course, we have election also in November, November 5th in the United States.

08:10 So it's very, very important the person could win in Mexico today.

08:15 And we probably know in three hours or four hours the results, but it's very important

08:20 for the relationship and also for all the 11 million undocumented Mexican immigrants

08:27 that we have here in the United States.

08:28 It's very important for us to have a leader from Mexico that really fight for us and also

08:34 represent us and defend us when we need it.

08:39 Excellent.

08:42 Thank you, Nerida, for your input in this important date for Mexico and of course for

08:47 the region.

08:49 It's a pleasure to have you here with us.

08:50 Thank you very much and thank you for your time and viva Mexico.

08:56 Exactly.

08:57 So that was Nerida Vargas, Mexican migrant leader in the United States.

09:01 And we continue in this special edition.

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