{"id":2031046,"date":"2023-09-13T19:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T23:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sound-of-freedom-producer-eduardo-verastegui-running-for-president-of-mexico\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T19:12:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T23:12:40","slug":"sound-of-freedom-producer-eduardo-verastegui-running-for-president-of-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sound-of-freedom-producer-eduardo-verastegui-running-for-president-of-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Eduardo Ver\u00e1stegui, &#8216;Sound Of Freedom&#8217; producer, seeks Mexican presidency."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsound-of-freedom-producer-eduardo-verastegui-running-for-president-of-mexico%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2031046&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mexican actor Eduardo Ver\u00e1stegui speaks during a press \u200cconference with El Salvador\u2019s President \u200dNayib Bukele before signing a letter of intent for the eradication of child trafficking\u2062 at the Presidential House in San Salvador on July 28, \u200d2023. (Photo by OSCAR \u2064RIVERA\/AFP via Getty\u200d Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OAN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/elizabeth-volberding\">Elizabeth Volberding<br \/><\/a>3:50 PM \u2013 Wednesday, September 13, 2023<\/p>\n<p><h2>Actor Eduardo Ver\u00e1stegui Announces Candidacy for Mexican Presidency<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>One of <em>Sound \u200bof Freedom\u2019s<\/em> producers, Eduardo \u2062Ver\u00e1stegui, registered on September 7<sup>th<\/sup> as an independent \u2064candidate to run\u2062 for the\u2063 president of Mexico \u2064in the 2024 elections.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Ver\u00e1stegui, 49,\u2064 who is a Mexican actor, producer, and \u2063founder of the Viva M\u00e9xico Movement, expressed his intention to run for president to the\u2064 National \u200dElectoral Institute (NEI). <\/p>\n<p>Following his submission of the \u2062required documents, the NEI will decide in\u2063 a matter of days whether he has met the standards and will then issue a certificate verifying his candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>In less than 120 days, he must collect \u2062a number of signatures equal to 1% of the list of registered voters in the country distributed over at least 17 \u200dstates \u201cwith an equal\u200d percentage in \u200ceach of them,\u201d which is equivalent \u200cto \u200babout \u20631 million signatures.<\/p>\n<p>Ver\u00e1stegui was extremely successful\u2064 as an actor on soap operas before turning his hand to conservative \u2064and Christian activism. Furthermore, he used his role as a producer to illustrate the message that \u201cGod\u2019s children are not for \u2062sale\u201d in the <em>Sound of Freedom<\/em> film.  <\/p>\n<p>Ver\u00e1stegui stated that he is hopeful\u2063 to use the strength from the <em>Sound of \u2063Freedom<\/em>, a film about the dark truths of widespread child trafficking, to \u200benter the world of politics. \u200dHe expressed that his goal is \u200bto \u201cput an end to child trafficking\u201d once and for all.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThe most important thing from this film is that\u200c we need to leave behind a permanent legacy and change legislation to ensure countries cooperate better \u2062in ending child\u200b trafficking,\u201d he explained\u2062 to Newsweek from Vatican City.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <em>Sound of Freedom<\/em> touches on a story of former U.S. Homeland Security officer Tim Ballard, played by Jim Caviezel, who leaves his \u200dgovernment job to create an anti-child-trafficking organization called \u201cOperation Underground Railroad\u201d (O.U.R.).<\/p>\n<p>If elected, Ver\u00e1stegui would like \u2062to improve the \u200dsystem for monitoring and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sound-of-freedom-producer-eduardo-verastegui-running-for-president-of-mexico\/\" title=\"Eduardo Ver\u00e1stegui, 'Sound Of Freedom' producer, seeks Mexican presidency.\">disclosing cross-border child trafficking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cSay there is a\u2062 house on fire with children in it and you have one \u200bfire truck coming from this direction and another\u200b fire truck coming from the other direction,\u201d the producer said \u2063of the children trafficked each year. \u201cBut then one driver tells the other,\u200c \u2018no this\u2064 is \u200cmy territory,\u2019\u2063 and they start \u2063arguing \u200band the children end \u200bup dead. What you want is for them to \u200cboth use their fire hoses to put out the flames \u200dto save the children and they \u200bcan have their arguments later. In real life we have real \u200dchildren \u2018on fire\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to data from the International Labour Organization (ILO), 10.1 million children were victims of modern slavery in 2016, and the \u2064numbers have only risen since \u2064then. <\/p>\n<p>Sexual exploitation accounts\u2062 for 79% \u200bof all forms of\u2062 trafficking, making it\u2064 the most prevalent, according to data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cMexico is not\u2064 doing well, there\u2019s more poverty, more security issues, more crime, just more\u2064 and more bad things\u2026 it really broke my heart,\u201d Ver\u00e1stegui explained. \u201cI was not raised to be a politician but people said,\u2063 \u2018that\u2019s why we should do it, people are tired of political powers.\u2019 They don\u2019t believe \u2062in politicians and they don\u2019t believe\u200c in these false \u200cpromises.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Juan Carlos Leal, a pro-life and pro-family politician and former\u2063 state\u200b representative of \u2064Nuevo Le\u00f3n, communicated \u200dhis eagerness for Ver\u00e1stegui\u2019s candidacy.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very happy, celebrating Eduardo\u2019s decision to be an aspirant, for this time, for the \u200dpresidency of the republic. I\u200d believe that he has the support, not of hundreds or thousands, but of millions of Mexicans who are in favor of life, family, and \u2062fundamental freedoms,\u201d Leal said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <em>Sound\u200d of Freedom<\/em> producer has from September 15<sup>th<\/sup> to January 6<sup>th <\/sup>to raise signatures ahead of the \u200cJune elections.<\/p>\n<p>Stay informed! Receive breaking news blasts directly to your inbox for free. 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The event took place at the Presidential House in San Salvador on July 28, 2023. (Photo: OSCAR RIVERA\/AFP via Getty Images) OAN&#8217;s Elizabeth Volberding reports at 3:50 PM on Wednesday, September 13, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2368,"featured_media":2031047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oann"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}