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Friday 5 May 2023

At CPAC, Hungary’s Orban decries LGBTQ+ rights, migration

By JUSTIN SPIKE In 2021, his right-wing Fidesz
Associated Press party banned the depic-
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — tion of homosexuality or
Hungary’s populist prime sex reassignment in media
minister likened liberalism targeting people under 18.
to a “virus” in an opening Information on homosexu-
speech at the Conserva- ality was also forbidden in
tive Political Action Con- school sex education pro-
ference in the Hungarian grams, or in films and ad-
capital on Thursday, paint- vertisements accessible to
ing a picture of a global minors.
right-wing movement mo- On Thursday, Orban ar-
bilizing to defeat “progres- gued that liberalism sought
sive elites.” to degrade nations, which
Viktor Orban’s speech at had led to the West falling
CPAC Hungary centered behind Asia in economic
around battling what and demographic indica-
he frequently described tors.
as “woke culture,” and “The woke movement and
delved primarily into hot- gender ideology are ex-
button cultural topics such actly what Communism
as transgender and LG- and Marxism used to be,”
BTQ+ rights, migration and he said.
the content of education Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers the keynote speech at the opening session of “They artificially cut the na-
for children. Hungary Conservative Political Action Conference Hungary in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, tion into minorities in order
The two-day conference, May 4, 2023. to spark strife among the
the second in Hungary in Associated Press groups.”The CPAC Hungary
as many years, featured famous” for its hard-line “Hungary is actually an in- as a champion of what he conference was the latest
segments titled “Make Kids migration and cultural cubator where experiments calls “illiberal democracy,” embrace of Orban by the
Not War” and “No Country policies, and offered those are done on the future of drawing controversy and U.S. right-wing movement.
for Woke Men.” A sign over in attendance a recipe conservative policies. Hun- raising concerns in the Eu- Last summer, he spoke at
the entrance to the venue, for implementing a simi- gary is the place where ropean Union and else- CPAC’s national confer-
a conference hall on the lar right-wing agenda at we didn’t just talk about where about Hungary slid- ence in Texas where he
Danube River, read, “No home. defeating the progressives ing into authoritarian rule. told the crowd in Dallas to
Woke Zone.” “No migration, no gender, and liberals and causing a He has depicted himself “take back the institutions
After receiving a standing no war,” Orban said, urging conservative Christian po- as a defender of European in Washington and Brussels”
ovation, Orban said Hun- his international audience litical turn, but we actually Christendom against Mus- and focus on winning U.S.
gary had become “world- to focus on these issues in did it,” Orban said. lim migrants, progressives elections next year.q
their own countries. Orban has styled himself and the “LGBTQ lobby.”

Mexico develops own COVID-19

vaccine, 2 years late

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ doses of the Abdala vac- “It makes no sense to use it
Associated Press cine it bought from Cuba. as a booster when it wasn’t
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexi- María Elena Álvarez-Buyl- designed for that.”
can officials celebrated la, the head of Mexico’s Mexico started developing
Wednesday the announce- government commission the Patria vaccine in March
ment that the country final- for science and technol- 2020. But testing was slow,
ly developed its own CO- ogy, said the new vaccine and the country wound up
VID-19 vaccine, more than would be approved for use importing 225 million doses,
two years after inoculations as a booster shot. She did mainly Astra-Zeneca and
from the U.S., Europe and not say whether the gov- Pfizer, and some Chinese
China were rolled out. ernment medical approval vaccines. A youth gets a shot of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine
It was unclear what use agency had formally au- Mexico bought 9 million during a vaccination drive at University Stadium in Mexico City,
would be made of the vac- thorized the Patria vaccine. doses of the Cuban-made Friday, July 23, 2021.
cine, named “Patria” or Dr. Fidel Alejandro Sán- Abdala vaccine in Sep- Associated Press
“Motherland,” developed chez, who sits on the coun- tember 2022, even though make Mexico self-sufficient 334,000, but testing was
in a joint effort between the cil of researchers in charge it was designed for coro- in many industries, while at scarce in the early days
government and a Mexi- of following virus variants in navirus variants circulating the same time supporting of the pandemic and the
can company, Avimex, Mexico, said he had doubts in 2020 or 2021, not current Cuba however he can. government’s own review
which previously did work about using a vaccine de- variants. Few Mexicans “This opens the door to re- of death certificates shows
on animal vaccines. signed two years ago as a have shown up to get the covering vaccine sover- more than 505,000 deaths
Vaccine uptake in Mexico booster to protect against Cuban booster shots. eignty,” Álvarez-Buylla said. where COVID-19 was listed
dropped precipitously in currently circulating strains. Mexican President Andrés Mexico’s official death toll as a cause of contributing
late 2022 and 2023, and “It is like reading yesterday’s Manuel López Obrador has of test-confirmed COVID-19 cause of death.q
Mexico still has millions of newspaper,” Sánchez said. made a point of trying to deaths stands at almost