No Empire Lasts Forever - Letter from wounded Mexican student

[magbana]

No Empire Lasts Forever

"Uribe and those who dropped bombs identical to those hurled against Iraq, should be investigated and punished."

Lucía Andrea Morett Álvarez - Rebelión

The following statement by Lucía Andrea Morett Álvarez was read at a tribute to the university students killed in the March 1 massacre on Ecuadoran soil, in the Aula Magna at the Autonomous University of Mexico's (UNAM's) College of Philosophy and Language. They were also read by Senator Rosario Ibarra at an event in Mexico City's Zocalo to protest the privatization of Mexico's oil. Both events took place on March 25.

Compañeras y compañeros:

My sincere Bolivarian greetings, from the bed in the military hospital in Quito, Ecuador where I am recovering from the multiple wounds I received as a result of the criminal bombing of Ecuadoran land by the Colombian army this past March 1, in which four of my best friends died. Many things pain me, among them, that with its silence, the Mexican government tries to shift the responsibility, before the world and history, away from those who directed the massacre, to the question of what we were doing there. Not only that, but they know that we arrived at the camp only a few hours before the barbarism and we went as civilians and university students, not imagining that we were going to be victims of one of the most infamous acts committed recently in Latin America, in a place where we'd been invited to learn about peace proposals.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. Hope the student will be safe, find asylum in Ecuador, out of the grasp of Uribe, who has no

business laying a finger on this human being.

What an infamy.