| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | September 2009 
President Calderón Urged Mexicans to Work Beyond Party Allegiance
 José Antonio Monterrosas Figueiras - Presidencia de la República
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September 23, 2009
| | Mexico's former President Ernesto Zedillo speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York September 22, 2009. About 1,200 participants including heads of state like U.S. President Barack Obama, business leaders, humanitarians and celebrities will attend the fifth annual Clinton Global Initiative, which started on Tuesday. (Reuters/Chip East) | |
Mexico City - President Felipe Calderón said that the greatest homage to national heroes will be to work together beyond ideologies and party allegiance in order to construct the Mexico we aspire to, the Mexico they undoubtedly thought and dreamt of, and for which they were willing to give their lives.
During the ceremony of the Laying of the First Stone of the Monument to Commemorate the Independence Bicentennial, the President added that the nation's heroes aspired to a Mexico in which every man and woman could truly live in peace with justice, freedom and democracy, in keeping with their dignity.
He trusted that Mexicans, those of the 2010 generation, would be able to achieve their desires and national dignity and be on a par with the country’s glorious history.
At the Puerta de los Leones entrance to Bosque de Chapultepec, the President declared that celebrating the Independence Bicentennial and the Centennial of the Revolution means building today in order to ensure families' safety and peace of mind.
He said that the point is to contribute to achieving safety in our streets and cities, reflecting the ideals of our leaders, working to transform Mexico, combining efforts to improve Mexicans quality of life, and ensuring a better education system, full health coverage and the eradication of extreme poverty still suffered by millions of compatriots.
“It is a valuable opportunity to be supportive and to provide more opportunities to those without them. Commemorating their history and deeds means changing what must be changed to achieve greater economic growth with justice and create the jobs our young people need," he said.
He explained that the Independence Bicentennial and the Centennial of the Revolution will be celebrations that will encourage us all to achieve the unfinished task of our heroes, which is to achieve their ideals in order to build the freer, more egalitarian and fairer Mexico to which we aspire.
The President said that the celebration will be a time of rejoicing but also a time to ask ourselves what kind of country we want and what we are prepared to do to achieve it and pass it on to the Mexicans of tomorrow, to the children who will be the heirs to our actions and our mistakes.
He declared that the 2010 generation is a generation convinced that Mexico faces enormous challenges but that it will not be turned back in its struggle to progress.
He then closed the time capsule, containing a series of documents and written testimonies to commemorate the monument. a collection of postage stamps, paper currency and coins.
Lastly, he laid the first stone of the building known as "Trail of Light," a project designed by the architect César Pérez, winner of the National Competition for the Construction of the Monument to Commemorate the Independence Bicentennial.
The Mexican President was accompanied by Secretaries of the Interior, Fernando Gómez Mont; Communications and Transport, Juan Francisco Molinar Horcasitas and Public Education, Alonso Lujambio; as well as Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice, Mariano Azuela; and Secretary of the Federal District Government, José Ángel Ávila.
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