A self-described socialist Democrat has gone viral online after saying she would bring the Mexican fight for independence to the U.S. Congress if elected.
Union organizer and New York Assemblywoman Claire Valdez is running for New York’s 7th District but posted a message of defiance against “empire” and corporations.
‘Viva guacamole, or whatever it is you traitors scream.’
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“215 years ago, Mexicans fought an empire that demanded our land and our labor. And we won,” she wrote on social media Wednesday.
“I’ll carry that fight with me to Congress as New York’s first Mexican American representative,” Valdez added. “And I’m strengthened not just by Mexico’s history but its present. Last month I met comrades in Morena who are standing up to the empires and corporations that have always [been]
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