Claudia, exploited by AMLO

The most recent of the public clashes between Adán López and Ricardo Monreal showed, once again, the weakness of Mrs. Claudia Sheinbaum in the face of two powerful opponents.

The three of them are engaged in a dispute to decide which of them deserves the favor of the omnipresent leader.

To date, it is not Sheinbaum. Nor is it any of the two coordinators of the cherry-colored packs in the Congress of the Union.

The only one who exercises power is Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

And Michel Foucault was clear and precise:

Power is not a commodity. “…it is not acquired, held or shared, but exercised.”

He had said something similar 20 years ago to the then President, Mr. José López Portillo:

“Like love, power is not shared.”

Constitutionally, Andrés Manuel López Obrador no longer “has” power, but he continues to exercise it.

He laid all the foundations to maintain his practice.

And not only did he give Mrs. Claudia Sheinbaum three-quarters of her team of collaborators, but also the political-economic controls of the Chambers of Congress, most of the governors and the leadership of “his” party.

He left her tied up. Under his total will.

He handed out.

Did not share.

And he kept the best part: the obedient will of his successor.

Also, with the blind obedience of “their” parliamentary coordinators.

All Mexicans see it every day. We have seen it during the months of the long pre-campaign and during the campaign, just as after being elected –“whatever it was,” the classic saying goes– and now on the stage of the National Palace:

The same poses.

Similar oral tone.

Identical phrases.

The already much-touted disqualifications.

It’s a clone, some say.

Trace it, others reply.

Whatever you call it, it is not she who truly exercises power, it must be repeated.

And AMLO, of course, has not shared it.

Will it be next year that she dares to take it from him?

It looks difficult. Complicated.

There are those who speak of a pact.

It will be during the first two years of the six-year term that the inhabitant of “La Chingada” will continue to exercise power.

Others have a different opinion.

That she will finally be able to be herself, by going through the recall process in 2027.

It will be a melon. It will be a watermelon. The fact is that there is still no first woman to serve as President of the Republic.

Sheinbaum is only the formal President. Not the real one.

The same Argentine story?

Just a year ago I shared with you here what was already on the horizon.

That Bibi Villavicencio, a regular reader of the Political Index, reminded me of the slogan of the campaign of dentist Héctor J. Cámpora for the Presidency of the Argentine Republic, then so fashionable due to the rise to power of Javier Milei.

“Cámpora to the government; Perón to power,” it read.

This was notwithstanding, in March 1973, when Cámpora was preparing to take over the government and Juan Domingo Perón took power, it was clear that Peronism had long ceased to be the monolithic movement of the 1945–1955 period.

As is the case with the AMLO Movement in our country, within Peronism there were different sectors in conflict, in some cases with opposing ideologies, and all of them seemed to have Perón’s support.

Here, Morena has used former PRI members, former PRD members, and even former PAN members to retain power.

And AMLO gives his approval to all of them, absolutely all of them.

Nothing new under the sun, said the Athenian philosopher.

50 years ago, Cámpora assumed the presidency.

Present at the inauguration ceremony were the socialist presidents of Chile, Salvador Allende, and Cuba, Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.

The Peronist Youth (JP) took over the event and prevented the military from holding the traditional parade.

While chanting “they are leaving, they are leaving, and they will never return,” they imagined on that afternoon in May 1973, under that sky full of hope, that that disastrous alliance between the most concentrated economic power, the ecclesiastical hierarchy and civil-military authoritarianism would never again have a place in Argentina.

They were wrong. The failed Peronism reestablished itself with Néstor Kirchner, his widow Cristina Fernández and Alberto Fernández, who with their mistakes cleared the way for Milei’s rise.

The pendulum theory worked.

Will it become a reality here too?

Or will Claudia really continue to assume the government — ​​with all its risks and problems — so that Andrés Manuel continues to enjoy power?

Clues

In Capital, theorist Karl Marx establishes that there is not just one, but several powers. Seen historically in terms of relations of exploitation, power has its own consistency and autonomy. Following Marxist theory, Claudia Sheinbaum is exploited by AMLO.

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