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MEXICO CITY – President Enrique Peña Nieto held a ceremony on Wednesday commemorating the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, where he emphasized that this pivotal event in Mexico’s history gave birth to the country’s armed forces and the 1917 Constitution.
Just as the 1917 Constitution guaranteed Mexican citizens with social rights — the first constitution in the world to do so — which led to the creation of institutions such as the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) and the National Housing Fund Institute (Infonavit), Peña Nieto said that the country is once again at a crossroads and that this generation has a historic opportunity to transform Mexico through structural reforms.
Peña Nieto went on to say that 1917 Constitution laid the foundations to recover peace following years of civil war and base the country’s political life on legality and institutional change.
The reorganization of the Mexican Army by revolutionary leader Venustiano Carranza made the armed forces a pillar of domestic stability following a period of military coups, he added.
“With peace, democracy and solid institutions, our country is entering a new stage of its development,” Peña Nieto said. “Based on dialogue, understanding and agreements, we have decided to travel the path of transformational reforms to carry out the comprehensive changes that citizens demand.”
“In the life and work of those who pushed forward the revolutionary cause, there are lessons on determination that we are called upon to listen to once again to create the concrete changes demanded by the vast majority of Mexicans, above any personal or group interests,” he said.
“If history is to see the past from the present, our best homage to the Revolution is to seriously ask ourselves today what the problems of our time are that are demanding timely reforms … with the same energy and hope of Mexicans one century ago, we are ready to make Mexico into the just, prosperous and egalitarian nation that we have always yearned for.”
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