Endorsed by Vox, the Fundación Patria Unida “will face Morena”

Andrea Becerril

Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday June 18, 2022, p. 3

With the endorsement of Vox and other far-right parties in Europe and America, Mexican Alice Galván López set up the Fundación Patria Unida here, whose objective, she said, is to form opinion and leaders who confront Morena’s ideology and prevent her from maintaining power in 2024.

Founder and president of Patria Unida, the young Galván López was an adviser to the senator of the National Action Party (PAN) Alejandra Reynoso and in that capacity she traveled to several European countries at the end of last year, with the purpose of participating in a course on indoctrination imparted by Vox in Spain and by members of other fascist parties in France, Poland and Hungary.

Back in Mexico, he founded Patria Unida, which arises, he stated yesterday in a statement, with the conviction of uniting the population against the extreme leftwhich in recent decades has imposed ideas of hate that they are destroying our civilization.

Galván López denied that his foundation is a subsidiary of Vox. No, we are not affiliated with any political party in Mexico or abroad. We are nonpartisan and independent. Willing to join with those who share our values. We seek political advocacy from organized civil societyresponded to a series of questions that were sent to him in writing.

However, in his statement, where he announces the creation of Patria Unida, he highlights that has significant support from international leaders who share the values ​​of the Hispanic-American right.

It also specifies that its foundation will have a national and an international council; The latter includes Eduardo Fernández, head of studies at the Disenso Foundation, which created Vox to promote its far-right ideology – which in Spain includes racist and xenophobic policies – as well as combat leftist governments in Latin America. The deputy Ignacio Garriga, from that far-right Spanish formation, also participates.

among whom also have already publicly expressed their support To Patria Unida, he stressed, there is the former Chilean presidential candidate José Antonio Kast, whose father, Michael Kast, a Nazi army officer, collaborated with the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, in addition to the Uruguayan Pedro Isern, executive director of Cescos, and other characters from the right, such as Vanya Thais, political commentator and director of Pro Libertad Peru.

-Is the real purpose of your foundation to train leaders who confront Morena’s ideology and is it also part of a strategy to prevent her from winning the Presidency again in 2024? –She asked him.

-Yes. Because we cannot allow any government or party allied to the dictatorships of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua to want to impose their ideology and divide us. With this government, our freedoms are in danger. And this is a job that commits us now and beyond 2024, responded Galván López, a law graduate with a master’s degree in government and public policy from the Universidad Iberoamericana.

In the information that they made public yesterday and that is on Facebook and other digital platforms, it is highlighted that “Patria Unida will work from four pillars: study and research; training; incidence and international relations. It is worth mentioning that monthly reports, surveys and public policy reports will be issued, as well as diploma courses, webinars, training courses and training seminars in companies, universities and schools. The first diploma will be entitled lead yourself”.

–Where will the funding come from?

–It is financed through active members and their families and all those free and brave Mexicans convinced of the urgent need to unite the country. We seek the participation of all those who share the values ​​of Patria Unida.

Asked about the relationship between the PAN and her foundation, she maintained that there is none, but we are open to working with all politicians committed to strengthening and defending democracy, freedoms and the rule of law. And we are always open to dialogue.

Despite this, at the presentation to society of Patria Unidad, held in a hall for social events in Calzada de las Águilas, last Thursday night, PAN member Cecilia Romero, Fernando Rodríguez Doval, who was spokesperson for the now fugitive, were present. Ricardo Anaya, among other members of Acción Nacional, as well as academics linked to the right.

From Spain, Vox, in the voice of its deputy in the Parliament of Catalonia, Ignacio Garriga, sent a video with a message of approval for the birth of Patria Unida in Mexico.