Mexican president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) urged President Joe Biden to respond to a letter he sent over a year ago during his mid-July visit to the White House in which he offered political asylum and protection to Australian journalist Julian Assange. Wikileaks’ director will be decided by the next British government in the coming weeks after he is given judicial authority to extradite. López Obrador again offered Biden a second asylum.
What is Julian Assange, a journalist who first Donald Trump and Joe Biden now have in common? They are trying to extradite him from the UK by accusing him of espionage crimes that will result in 175 years in prison.and former leader of the Bolshevik revolution Leon Trotskywar commissar and foreign minister of the Soviet government?
In principle they have nothing in common. But look and see, Mexico’s current president is trying to replicate the experience of the Mexican president, the General, when an internationally famous figure – Assange – requested asylum. Lazaro SnowdensIn 1937, when he was granted asylum, the expulsion of the leader from the USSR came to an end. stalin In 1928 it was called the “visa-free planet”.
Nobody wanted to take the Russian revolutionaryResiding in Norway in extremely dangerous conditions, his government achieved its goal after a fascist attack on his home, under pressure from Stalin to expel him. After the personal efforts of the muralist, his friends from the United States Diego RiveraThey said President Cárdenas had granted him asylum.
Trotsky arrived in the port of Tampico on January 9, 1937. “I am extremely grateful to the Mexican government for granting me asylum, given that the intransigent attitude of the Norwegians has made it difficult for me to obtain a visa. The Mexican government can be assured that I will not violate the conditions imposed on me and that these conditions coincide with my own wishes: Non-interference in Mexican politics and the complete refrain of any action that may harm Relations between Mexico and other countries,” he explained at a press conference.
In the hands of Priti Patel
British Supreme Court judges gave the green light for Assange’s extradition to the United States in mid-April. Therefore, the completion of the judicial extradition procedure returned the case to the political realm.
The final decision – Pinochet case The judicial committee of the House of Lords, which served as the Supreme Court, ruled in March 2000 that he could be extradited to Spain, after holding him under house arrest for 503 days in London. But the interior minister straw straw He decided to send Chile’s former dictator general back home for health reasons (sudden dementia).
Assange is currently in the hands of British Home Secretary Priti Patel, who has described Assange’s worldwide media leaks as espionage. British government crisis as Prime Minister falls Boris Johnson postponed the final decision, butAssange’s defense tries one last resort.
The Trump administration tried to launch a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operation led by it. Mike Pompeofor While taking refuge in the headquarters of the Ecuadorian embassy, he assassinated Assange in London. with the support of the then President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa.
On August 15, a group of lawyers and journalists gave a presentation in New York. lawsuit against ex-director Pompeo for “spying in violation of his rights” It was special when they met with Assange.” the case says The Spanish security agency UC Global was responsible for the security of the Ecuadorian embassy. When Assange was protected with asylum status. According to the lawsuit, Pompeo’s fourth amendment at his behest violated his constitutional rights (investigations and arrests ordered by authority should be reasonable).
Defendant Spanish soldier
The lawsuit claims More than 100 American citizens who visited Assange at the embassy Ecuadorian” saw their privacy rights violated. “The CIA-backed espionage operation began in January 2017 and lasted until the security agreement. [la empresa española] Undercover Global ended in April 2018.” National Court sued Ex-soldier investigation from Cadiz David Morales Guillén, the owner of the above-mentioned company, who was arrested and charged. according to the judge Santiago PedrazUC Global’s records may be forwarded to the CIA in charge of the proceedings. The US case also turns against Morales Guillén.
Pompeo sued Next came the federal judge for the southern district of New York, John Koelti.has already intervened in a case involving Wikileaks. In 2019, the judge ruled against the Democratic National Committee’s claim to place Assange on the podium. Spreading emails from candidate Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Koelti’s sentence was based on: pentagon papers which the United States began publishing about its involvement in the Vietnam War. New York Times in 1971.
Assange’s situation has another thing in common with Trotsky’s situation in 1937-40. And this is one of them threats and attempts to remove you. A few days ago, 82 years passed since the killer of Catalan descent. Ramon MerchantSent to Mexico on a mission entrusted by Stalin, took the life of Trotsky. It was August 20, 1940.
Assange, with serious health problems, He awaits his fate in Belmarsh High Security Prisonin south east London.
What Julian Assange did – running journalism at a time when the profession was in decline – was considered a crime of treason, first by Trump and now by Biden.