Mexican media spotlights Viet Nam's Dien Bien Phu Victory
VGP - As Viet Nam prepares for the 70th anniversary of Dien Bien Phu Victory on May 7, Voces Del Periodista, the academic forum and voice of Mexican journalists, has continued spotlighting this historic event.
The article on Voces Del Periodista. Photo: VNA
In its May issue, the Mexican newspaper Voces Del Periodista highlighted the pivotal shift in the military strategy from "lightning war" to "solid advance" as a defining moment in the anti-French resistance.
This decision, described by General Vo Nguyen Giap as the most challenging one of his military career, proved to be a crucial turning point during the war.
In the opening lines of his article, author Mouris Salloum George vividly recounted the 56 days and nights of relentless struggle that unfolded at Dien Bien Phu.
Amid the towering mountains and makeshift shelters, the Vietnamese army and people defied all odds to conquer the most formidable stronghold of the French colonialists in Indochina under the leadership of the Party and President Ho Chi Minh.
Seven decades later, the echo of Dien Bien Phu's triumph continues to resonate, etching an indelible mark on the annals of 20th-century heroism.
The author, also the President of the Mexican Journalists' Association, explicitly pointed out that one of the decisive factors of the Dien Bien Phu Victory was the solidarity spirit of the Vietnamese people.
This caused the Dien Bien Phu base commander, General De Castries, after failing to return to France, to confess before the Investigation Committee of the French Ministry of Defense that "One can defeat an army, but not a people."
According to journalist Mouris Salloum George, Editor-in-Chief of Voces Del Periodista, Dien Bien Phu campaign brought great encouragement to oppressed peoples to stand up for independence, including many countries in Africa and Latin America.
At the end of the article, Voces Del Periodista - a forum of 45,000 professional journalists in Mexico, affirmed that the Dien Bien Phu Victory created a critical turning point for the Vietnamese Revolution.
This led to the signing of the Geneva Agreement to end the war and restore peace in the Indochina region, creating the basis and conditions for Viet Nam to advance to victory in the resistance war against America.
The historic victory of Dien Bien Phu also showed the outstanding maturity of the Viet Nam People's Army.
Under the leadership of the Party and President Ho Chi Minh, this army has continuously grown. This is also the premise for 21 years later, Viet Nam continues to win the war for independence and unification of the country./.
