Mexico, an Independent and Sovereign Country: 85 Years Since the Oil Expropriation

This is an act of commemoration of oil expropriation. And it is a national act. I am proud to be able to remember today, March 18, that despite the dedication that prevailed before we reached the government, we were able to remove from the Free Trade Treaty a broad chapter that committed our oil to that agreement. The United States and Canada recognize that Mexico reserves its sovereign right to reform its constitution and internal legislation. And Mexico has the direct domain and inalienable and impregnable property of all hydrocarbons in the subsoil of the national territory. I cannot fail to mention that in recent days, some legislators of the United States, used to seeing the straw in the eye of the beholder and not the beam in their own, for electoral and political purposes, insisted that if we did not stop the traffic of fentanyl to the northern border, they would propose to the Congress of their country that they occupy American soldiers in our territory to confront organized crime. It is that from here, from this base, the political and cultural heart of Mexico, we remind those hypocritical and irresponsible politicians that Mexico is an independent and free country, not a colony or a protectorate of the United States, and that they can threaten us with committing any atrophy, but we will never, never allow them to violate our sovereignty and trample the dignity of our country. Cooperation? Yes! Submission? No! Interventionism? No! No! Oligarchy? No! Corruption? No! Classism? No! Racism? No! Freedom? Yes! Democracy? Yes! Honesty? Yes! Social justice? Yes! Equality? Yes! Sovereignty? Yes! Long live oil expropriation! Long live the workers and technicians of the former and present of the national oil industry! Long live General Lázaro Cárdenas del Río! Long live Mexico! Good afternoon!