México Lindo y Querido Barack Obama Speak Spanish

Barack Obama met with Mexican students and members of the policy, which insisted that requires cooperation between the two countries for joint growth. Obama's speech, in which several short sentences sandwiched in Spanish, was full of allusions to several of the most representative of Mexico, Benito Juarez, the Virgin of Guadalupe, the paintings of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera murals. Obama also admitted that the Spanish of his eldest daughter, Malia, "doing pretty well". Below the full text of the speech. Hello! Good morning! It is a great pleasure to be back in beautiful and beloved Mexico. I bring with me the greetings and friendship of the people of the United States, including tens of millions of proud Mexican-American. This is my fourth visit to Mexico as President. Every time I come, I am inspired by your culture, the beauty of this land and, above all, by the Mexican people. You have been friendly to my wife Michelle here. You have been friendly to our daughter Malia and her classmates in Oaxaca. And as a proud parent, I can say that she is improving a lot his Spanish. It also helps that she is smarter than me. It is an honor to be back in Mexico City, which is one of the great cities of the world. It is a pleasure to be among friends. It own to meet in this great museum, which celebrates the ancient civilizations of Mexico and achievements of these in the arts and architecture, medicine and mathematics. In modern times, the mixture of cultures and traditions of you was expressed in the murals of Rivera, Frida's paintings, Sor Juana's poetry and writings of Octavio Paz. Sometime Paz wrote words that capture the spirit of our meeting today, in this place that celebrates your past, but this morning is full of you young people that will shape the future of Mexico. Paz said that "Modernity is not outside but within us.'s Today and is the oldest old, is tomorrow and is the beginning of the world, a thousand years old and has just been born."

• 2013-05-04T04:05:49+00:00
• Duration: 06:09

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