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• I propose here a direction, not a blueprint. Many of my detailed suggestions may need to be sacrificed to insuperable obstacles, or to be replaced by other equivalents better suited to the circumstances. The point is to reject the easy ways out: the passive suffering of the present recession and the passive waiting to be brought out of it by the future American recovery. What matters is to use the struggle to grow the economy and broaden its social base as an opportunity to keep the promise of the democratic transition, by giving that promise social and economic -- as well as political -- content. To combine the mobilization of national resources with the democratization of economic opportunities, through a sequence and combination of innovations in policies and institutions, is the animating spirit of this proposal. For you and for the country, the chief obstacle to the execution of such a project is neither political nor economic. It is spiritual. From you and from your government, this endeavor would require the sacrifice of the almost unanimous flattery with which you have been besieged and tempted by the rich, the respectable, and the powerful of the world. From Mexico, it would demand that it renew its determination to become a great and independent country, and that it show itself willing to invent and to resist, rather than to follow and to obey. To help Mexico escape from passivity and mediocrity, to persuade it to stand up, to give it arms and wings, is your historic opportunity and your sacred duty. Saludos,
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