By former Mexican Congresswoman María de los Ángeles Huerta.
The Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) organized an online forum on March 2, 2026, titled “Epstein and the Bottomless Depravity of the Elites – Urgent Need for a Cultural Renaissance!” former Mexican Congresswoman María de los Ángeles Huerta held a speech here, documented below.
Given the current state of war in the world, there is one burning question: What connection could there be between a private island in the Caribbean—where teenagers were tortured and raped—and the missiles that are now targeting entire cities in the Middle East? At first glance, none. But if we look closely, we see that the thread is the same: An elite that feels entitled to own everything—bodies, territories, lives; owners of money, owners of the law, and owners of silence.
The Epstein case exposed the rot in its most obscene form: princes, presidents, scientists, bankers, all sharing the same basement. In Mexico, we had our first warning in 2005. The Lydia Cacho case exposed the same thing: Networks of pedophilia and abuse against children in all their monstrous magnitude, businessmen protected by governors, complicit judges; “the demons of Eden” in a system that criminalized the victims and rewarded the perpetrators. The geography has changed, and Mexico has also changed, but now with the Epstein case we see that although the names change, the power structure of the neo-fascist pedophiles is identical—money, power, and impunity operating without borders.
We see the same networks with expanded and detected “Businesses of Power.” And that same structure is what has us on the brink of the abyss today, because the elites who feel entitled to possess other people’s bodies also feel entitled to possess other people’s territories. They are the same military-industrial complexes, the same arms lobbies, the same think tanks that manufacture consensus for war. The same banks in tax havens; the same logic—the world is their property, and we are mere tenants with more or less chance of survival.
Why is it so difficult to bring a powerful sexual predator to justice? Because he has networks that protect him. Prince Andrew of England enjoyed more than 20 years of direct protection from the British crown. Donald Trump is still protected by the darkest forces of the US state. Why is it so difficult to stop a war? Because the same networks benefit from it; it is no coincidence. We now know with complete clarity that impunity in sexual matters and impunity in war stem from the same source.
And there is something even deeper, something that is often left out of these analyses. It is the question that perhaps every human being asks themselves today. Because Epstein’s elite, the elite of war, operates from a very specific idea of what we are. Human beings as objects; as disposable flesh; as pieces that are moved or eliminated as it suits the board. That is the philosophy of predation.
Faced with this, any response that does not recover an updated idea of men and women will always be incomplete. THAT is why we need to raise an opposing concept: Human beings as creators, as bearers of dignity, as moral beings. Not a naive morality, but a living ethic that sets limits where power does not want to recognize any. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Humanity must find a way to say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
This impossibility that we have had until now as citizens of the world is perhaps one of the great shortcomings of our current culture. We have lost the language to name what makes us human. And without that language, any struggle remains in gestures, in slogans, in fireworks that burn nothing. We must clearly recognize the moment we are living in today. Let us not be distracted. What we are experiencing is not a succession of isolated crises. It is a situation of pre-war or global war. The powers are measuring themselves; the blocs are tense; the war rhetoric is becoming normalized. The Middle East is a powder keg with a short fuse. Ukraine is a testing ground. The Taiwan Strait is a constant flashpoint.
And behind every tension, every missile, every bomb, are the same beneficiaries. The arms dealers, the energy barons, those who always profit from the death of human beings. The same people who protected Epstein. The same people who bought silence in every case similar to that of Lidia Cacho anywhere in the world. War and depravity are the same business in different packaging.
Faced with this terrible global situation, we in Mexico are raising our voices and want to make Five Proposals for a Global Citizenship Network. If they have a global network for impunity, we need a global network for dignity. Not a token network that meets to sign manifestos, but a network with real impact. How?
First: A global citizen audit of the war economy and exploitation. We need to know which banks, investment funds, and corporations are behind the weapons that kill and the networks that enslave. And once we know, we need to organize massive divestments and create a public shaming index that hits where it hurts most; a large global network against these institutions of predation, abuse, and globalized cynicism.
Second: A global observatory of elite impunity. A citizen body that follows up on cases, from Epstein to Gaza, from tax havens to war crimes. One that has the capacity to submit reports to the UN and the International Criminal Court. One that is the memory that the powerful want to erase.
Third: Globally coordinated nonviolent direct action. Imagine a day when, simultaneously in dozens of countries, the citizens of the world take action in front of embassies, banks, and complicit corporations. Symbolic but powerful actions that show that we are connected, that when they harm a victim anywhere, we all respond.
Fourth: Influence multilateral organizations from below. The UN is hijacked by the vetoes of the powerful, but organized citizens can push from the margins. We propose a network that pushes for two causes: a binding treaty against economic impunity and the activation of mediation mechanisms driven by civil society, not by governments that sell and buy weapons.
Fifth: A protection network for defenders of peace and dignity. Lydia Cacho survived because there were those who protected her. We need to expand that network globally—journalists, courageous judges, activists, victims. “No one who faces the monster should have to do it alone.”
What we learned in the south of the continent. From Mexico, we have learned something that may be useful to the world: change is possible when citizens organize and do not give up. For decades, pedophile networks operated with absolute impunity. But citizen organizations, the feminist movement, search collectives, and tireless pressure have broken that pact of silence. Not because the system has become good, but because citizens have become incorruptible. That same force is what we need on a global level to stop the war machine.
This day is a starting point. The Epstein case and every case similar to that of Lidia Cacho are not old news. They are the mirror in which power looks at itself when it believes no one is watching. And that same power is now playing with the possibility of a war that could wipe us off the map. That is why this meeting cannot be just another conference. It must be the starting point for a global network of citizen advocacy; a network that not only denounces, but also acts. That not only shows solidarity, but also organizes. That not only looks at the board, but also moves the pieces.
The monster is global. But we can be too. And there are more of us. We are the ones who believe that no child should be abused or exploited. We are the ones who believe that no war should be inevitable. We are the ones who defend a concept of humanity that is opposed to predation—human beings as creators, not destroyers. We are citizens of the world. And the time has come to act as such.
Thank you to everyone, to the Schiller Institute, to our dear Helga for this work and for the initiative. The time to act together and support these great efforts is now or never.