{"id":101172,"date":"2024-03-13T18:37:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T22:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=101172"},"modified":"2024-03-15T15:17:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T19:17:34","slug":"mexican-congressman-robles-issues-open-letter-more-urgent-than-ever-stop-the-danger-of-nuclear-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/blog\/2024\/03\/13\/mexican-congressman-robles-issues-open-letter-more-urgent-than-ever-stop-the-danger-of-nuclear-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Congressman Robles Issues Open Letter: “More Urgent than Ever: Stop the Danger of Nuclear War!”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

March 12, 2024 (EIRNS)\u2014Congressman Benjam\u00edn Robles Montoya of Mexico issued the following \u201cLetter to Current and Former Legislators of the World,\u201d on his letterhead of the Chamber of Deputies, LXV Legislature. It is datelined Mexico City, March 13, 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PDF of the original letter in Spanish<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Current or former legislators, public officials or candidates for public office, can endorse the Open Letter ‘More Urgent than Ever: Stop the Danger of Nuclear War!’ by adding their signature here.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

More Urgent than Ever: Stop the Danger of Nuclear War!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dear colleagues from around the world:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A year and a half ago, a group of current and former legislators of Mexico and other countries around the world held a series of international seminars on the subject: \u201cStop the Danger of Nuclear War!\u201d In November of that year, we circulated an urgent call to our colleagues, current and former legislators of the world, \u201cto join this effort that we have launched, in order to urge all world citizens to also unite to create a new international security and development architecture, which respects the security interests of all nations and which guarantees the right to welfare and economic development of all people on the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, 18 months later, it is more urgent than ever that we mobilize to stop the danger of a nuclear war, and that we redouble those efforts before it is too late. The war in Ukraine is at the point of turning into a direct confrontation between, not just weapons, but NATO troops directly deployed on Ukrainian territory, and Russia. And now Netanyahu\u2019s genocide against the Palestinian people has unleashed such great human suffering that the entire planet is shaken, a genocide which threatens to expand that war throughout the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a speech I delivered at the March 6, 2024 session of Mexico\u2019s Chamber of Deputies<\/a><\/strong>, I stated:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe expansionist drive of the powers, the monstrosities of a voracious economic system that has generated inequality and misery, are a breeding ground for conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEconomic sanctions have only served to aggravate conflicts, to produce more suffering for the people, to provoke shortages of medicines and energy, as well as to drive world inflation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow valid is the famous phrase of the Hero of the Americas, President Benito Ju\u00e1rez, that `among individuals as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace!\u2019\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday the threat of nuclear war is again looming, with the United States sending weapons to Ukraine and Israel, where what is happening is an atrocious genocide; with meddling in the China-Taiwan conflict; with Russia, pulling out of strategic arms reduction treaties and nuclear test bans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cColleagues, we have reached the very precipice of nuclear war and it is imperative that all nations raise their voices\u2014not the voice of one nation, nor of several nations, but of all humanity\u2014for peace and against nuclear war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLet all the citizens of the world also unite in pursuit of a new international security and development architecture that guarantees the right to welfare and economic development of the people of the planet. Achieving peace through development, that is the path.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For all of these reasons, we reiterate more urgently than ever our call to you, current and former legislators of the world, to join forces\u2014above our different political and ideological orientations\u2014in the necessary deliberation around a new security and development architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With fraternal greetings,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benjam\u00edn Robles Montoya<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Federal Congressman<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congress of the Union of Mexico<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current or former legislators, public officials or candidates for public office, can endorse the Open Letter ‘More Urgent than Ever: Stop the Danger of Nuclear War!’ by adding their signature here.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March 12, 2024 (EIRNS)\u2014Congressman Benjam\u00edn Robles Montoya of Mexico issued the following \u201cLetter to Current and Former Legislators of the World,\u201d on his letterhead of the Chamber of Deputies, LXV Legislature. It is datelined Mexico City, March 13, 2024. Current or former legislators, public officials or candidates for public office, can endorse the Open Letter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":101193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-101172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101172"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101241,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101172\/revisions\/101241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}