Pete Buttigieg Kicks off His Latino Outreach Campaign With a Slogan Popularized by Communists
Struggling with low poll numbers among Latino voters, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg’s campaign launched a Hispanic outreach effort on Monday that included a series of policy plans, websites, and online videos in English and Spanish.
Buttigieg announced the initiative on his social media accounts by invoking a Spanish-language slogan that is raising eyebrows among Latino leaders. The mayor of South Bend, Indiana, tweeted “El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido” (“the people united, will never be defeated”), a protest chant that is famously connected to Latin American communists. The saying was also featured in several campaign communications, including as a call-to-action on a Latino website.
For decades, Americans have rallied to declare el pueblo unido, jamás será vencido — the people united, will never be defeated. To join us and learn more, text TOGETHER to 25859.
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El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido—the people united, will never be defeated.
Today I'm proud to announce a bold, comprehensive plan to dismantle the institutional barriers that have kept Latinos from feeling like they fully belong in their country.https://t.co/V750mBcAGu
— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) December 16, 2019
It is difficult to overstate the degree to which Buttigieg’s Spanish-language campaign slogan is associated with left-wing radicals in Latin America. Last month, at a meeting titled, “An Anti-Imperialist Gathering of Solidarity Against Neo-Liberalism,” the Cuban government’s National Assembly broke out into the chant when the country’s communist president took the stage.
!El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! Así corean los delegados del Encuentro Antimperialista de Solidaridad, por la Democracia y contra el Neoliberalismo en la jornada de clausura, luego del discurso del presidente de la República de #Cuba @DiazCanelB.#Cuba #JornadaContinental pic.twitter.com/2v7Y0Vv1Au
— Asamblea Nacional Cuba (@AsambleaCuba) November 3, 2019
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