Does AMLO have more than a damaged eye?
Not long ago I told you here that the funny stories of Latin American tyrants have no substance. Our leader is no exception to the rule.
I have told him about the existence of a Dominican dictator who, when his mother died, ordered a huge lighthouse to be built in her honor.
The same as the mother of the Bolivian patriarch who confessed: “If I had known that my son was going to be president, I would teach him to read and write.”
Mexico, of course, has also had individuals of the same ilk in its history. He has it now.
What is expected is that, as they say that History is cyclical, these cases will not be repeated.
Hopefully, then, Andrés Manuel López Obrador does not emulate Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebron, who held the Presidency of the Republic eleven times, even carrying out coups d’état against himself.
The tenor and cockfighter won the Cake War against France, lost his leg in the same combat, had it buried with pomp and circumstance in the Cathedral, lost it every time he fell from power, until the leg was dragged away and lost. by the mobs.
He handed over the territories of Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Oregon, all of California and, in exchange, introduced the chewing gum produced on his Veracruz estates, he ended his life as a miserable lame pensioner pensioned by Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada in Tlalpan, where his wife, Flor de México , used the pension money to hire beggars to stand in the waiting room and call the poor old man “Mr. President.”
Hopefully, then, AMLO does not want to be elected eleven times.
Hopefully, he is not going to give himself a coup d’état either, declaring a State of Exception that of course suspends the elections.
Hopefully.
Leaders, dictators and vulgarities
Leónidas Trujillo named his little son Radamés a general and wanted to canonize his mother.
Maximiliano Hernández , theosophist, and orchid grower, prevented a scarlet fever epidemic by covering the public lighting in San Salvador with red paper, executing thirty thousand peasants at once.
Even an average Mexican film director had the luxury of buying for his lover, the Galician actress Medea de Novara, the central castle of the Prince of Liechtenstein… the aroma of money made the vulgar Miguel Contreras Torres inherit jealously defended noble titles from the fifth century by the shields of Vaduz and Schellenberg.
Can anyone overcome the reality of the dictator Juan Vicente Gómez, the astute Andean politician who was president of Venezuela between 1908 and 1935, and who, halfway through his long term, suspicious of the tranquility that reigned, wanted to find out who his enemies were? The similarity between Venezuela and Mexico continues to give stories.
They say that, for this purpose, he ordered his death to be officially announced, and when popular joy broke out at the news, the dictator, hidden behind a palace curtain, looking at the public square, summarily ordered: shoot that one, hang that one, Throw that other one to the crocodiles.
When Gómez died, surrounded according to legend by dozens of natural children, the public did not believe the news that time. It was necessary to seat the tyrant in his presidential chair, in uniform and with the sash on his chest, while the people filed by, touched him, and admitted: “This time he did die.”
What could AMLO be sick with?
And the things we experience can only be felt in these latitudes. The funny characters we suffer from are so much our own that, even if we wanted to invent some more cool ones, we couldn’t. Reality always wins the game over fiction.
What happened in Venezuela less than a century ago with the dictator Juan Vicente Gómez is unspeakably remarkably similar to what we are seeing in Mexico, with that half-dull eye of the “leader” López Obrador.
Also, the funny and accurate comments about the perversity of the character in question, capable of anything to remain in power forever, to even win the midterm elections next June that have already taken away his peace of mind, which have interrupted the solace of his eventful mandate.
“Very on time for the elections, always right and at the exact moment. Also, with the heart attack just before the Pemex reform, the show was excellent,” said one.
“The president, due to his decline in popularity, falsely proposes ‘a breath’ in the oclayo,” noted another.
“It is already a long time for just one “cheche” eye… it is a visible symptom of a cerebrovascular disease…”, read a post in X.
“I don’t wish López any harm. What’s more, I hope he is treated by a doctor as capable as (Hugo) López-Gatell , as blameless as (Manuel) Bartlett, as hardworking as (Gerardo Fernández) Noroña , as empathetic as Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, as smiling as Claudia Sheinbaum and as honest as himself”, another closed.
Pure popular appreciation, just like in the Venezuelan events that I told you about less than a century ago. Time flies, you know.
One more for the archives of rock ignorance: Did the scapulars fail, the memorable prayers of a cheap healer, and was it confirmed that not stealing, lying and not betraying, were they returned to him in turbo?
Now, all that remains is for him to be put in the hands of the electoral brigades of his fanatical chairos, so that he can be properly cured, and make the population encouraged to receive the rubes at home and convince them that it is him and only him. who stays in power the longest.
Indications
Although he only listed four, López Obrador said in his matinee this Tuesday that the Army has five missions: protecting national sovereignty, safeguarding internal security, contributing to social development, and building infrastructure. This is in response to magnate Carlos Slim Helú who, a day earlier, criticized the participation of the Army in various aspects of the country’s public life, such as infrastructure works, the distribution of medicines, among other tasks. * * * Slim gave an exceptionally long press conference to distort publications that point to him as the spoiled businessman of the 4T, which has caused his fortune to double in just the last five years. Today it can boast that it is worth more than 100 billion dollars. * * * Another one from Tuesday’s comic-electoral-musical matinee: AMLO was questioned about what his position will be in a hypothetical, but increasingly case, in which Morena’s presidential candidate, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, does not turn out elected as the successor to the presidential chair. At first, López Obrador joked and asked the reporter to change the example, in addition to remembering the song by Mexican singer Salvador Flores Rivera — known as Chava Flores –: “What do you throw at when you dream, Mexican.” However, he later stated that whatever the people choose “has to be obeyed.” * * * Let the four-party deputies not even try to approve in committees the aberrant bill, presented by Juan Ramiro Robledo, which seeks to declare as valid and unassailable the contested reforms that receive the support of only four ministers of the Court and not of eight, as is now the case. Approved by the Legislature, this new “minority majority” would be dismissed by the SCJN itself as unconstitutional. * * * The Republican campaign continues focused on Mexico and the inability or complicity of the failed Fourteenth Administration to effectively combat violence and illegal drug trafficking. Now Morgan Luttrell and Tom Cotton presented another initiative with the same theme, but now called the Jalisco Cartel Neutralization Act. This would require the Department of Defense to report to Congress every 90 days on its efforts to eliminate the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. which they consider “the most brutal and dangerous cartel operating in Mexico” … a “bloodthirsty organization that is fueling the worst drug crisis in the history of the United States.” * * * César Yáñez, the great inspiration of the best seller The King of Cash, openly joins Claudia Sheinbaum’s campaign. See how it goes. * * * And that’s all for today. As always, I acknowledge that you have read this Political Index and I wish you a good thank you and many, many days!
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