From hope to despair

Exactly six years ago, Andrés Manuel López Obrador embodied the frustrations of an entire people offended by the corruption of the tolucopachucracia headed, in that order, by Luis Videgaray, Enrique Peña Nieto and Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong , seven-sole rascals.

AMLO was the repository not only of the generalized desire to punish the corrupt, but also of the enormous imbalances that had shattered the territory, the sovereignty and the registration of Mexico in a new scenario, far from dependence and dislocation, caused by foreign politicians divorced from the masses.

The national dignity was sweating through the pores of the Tabasco native. He arrived directly at the right time, when there was nowhere else to go. He was the one, a kind of chosen one endowed with civic inspiration, with great knowledge about the past, the present and the future. That’s where it was, we all thought that he couldn’t be any other way.

We never imagined that all of the above was part of the famous and never well understood “traveler’s vision.” Those journeys inch by inch through all the corners of the national geography had been simple villages. They never reflected any viable solution in the government program, absent from all points of view of the panorama we suffer.

They were never translated into a structured idea about solutions to unbalanced regional development, to the real causes of poverty and marginalization. They were not part of a real x-ray of the skeleton, of the chains of submission that bind backwardness to being made of flesh and blood. They were always travel anecdotes.

And that was his walk through the country. What if the belly or Menudo from such a place, the machaca with egg, the seasoning of the caldillo, the chicatanas, the beans a la tumbada, the gorditas and the burritos, the tamales or the chilaquiles from Doña Isabel or from any comal on the edge of the road, the cane juices, the sugar mills, the fresh water in plastic bags for the thirst of the fucked up.

Never the chaining of productive processes, the structural failures of the regions, and the interrelationships between them, the immediate solutions to backwardness, the real needs, the necessary hierarchy of development as a whole, the urgency of a growth model that would privilege promotion and support for agricultural activities…

…on whose production we are all depending, not just politicians, and whose astonishment and abandonment in government nonsense we are on the verge of shortages and the endless slide of the new process of importing grains and basic foods for the coming years of the next six-year term of hopelessness, that of the “second floor of corruption…, sorry, of transformation.”

We go without a compass and without a rudder in free fall

The Fourth Transformation — or whatever it is — sounds like a national tragedy.‎ We never imagined it would happen so soon. It started because the desire for revenge was stronger than all the ailments. The economic dryness — equal to that caused by Videgaray at the time — made its appearance disguised as austericide. He left the population in their bones.

If Videgaray caused the drought six years ago by subtracting two billion from the budget of the currency, betting that upon the arrival of oil investments from the structural reforms they were going to be hindered by national money, the reality was discovered in the tax havens that he chose to put away his suitcases while waiting for his frustrated presidential campaign.

Today’s economic dryness is undoubtedly more serious. Having attacked the constructions programmed by those who AMLO calls neoliberals left the economy without cash. All constructions, not just the Texcoco mega airport. There are no bricklayers on the streets, nor money in the pockets of anyone who is not a potentate or someone favored by the regime.

There is no employment, there is no medicine, there is no decent and efficient public transportation, there is no food, there is no purchasing power to buy the essentials, there is no security, there is no way out.‎ And it seems that the dryness is here to stay. I would like to be wrong, but the hard data proves it.

Because when a country enters the whirlwind of food imports, there is no saint who can stop it. He loses direction, brakes and destination. We are on a children’s slide. Without compass or rudder.

Adventurous and thirsty for money and power

The budget proposals reflect the lack of idea about an administration, about a regime, about a government and about the State as a whole. It is very important to see its clear manifestations that only those who do not want to see them do not see. The tragedy advances.

Thus, for a system that lacks guidance, AMLO wanted to make up for it with a fair of ideas, silly failed punitive processes, blame on the recent past, dull, unproductive and onerous programs that pull the blanket everywhere, and that are not even enough to support a regime that only thinks about winning the next elections, but not about generations.

The bad thing is that, with Morena being a champion of the protest movements of the last decades of struggle for civil and democratic liberties in the country, it is staining all the demands that we have proposed for more than fifty years. It seems that Mexico fell into the hands of irresponsible, adventurous people thirsty for money and power.

On the eve of the federal electoral process to renew the Presidency of the Republic, the Congress of the Union, nine governorships and almost 20 thousand positions of popular representation we see that the vision of the traveler who only ate fat and greasy broths on the side of the roads has triumphed on the serious analysis of the structural causes of poverty, public health, and social justice.

In just six years we went from hope to despair.

Indications

The use of state force against AMLO’s political adversaries — even against his critics, whom he sickeningly turns into enemies — is simply scandalous. He destroys each and every one of the words that he utters in his electoral-comic-musical matinees in which he presumes — but does not assume — the Rule of Law. Such vengeful behaviors by López Obrador are the product of his many resentments. I have already mentioned it here a few times. That Nietzsche said that, if a resentful person comes to power, he will implement policies of resentment and seek revenge. But if a politician arrives with more sanity, with more calm, he will be a much more productive, prudent, generous politician, with a greater capacity to contain his own emotions, more calculating, more successful. Much of AMLO’s failure is located in his feelings and emotions, evidently distorted and which he does not want to recognize, since he is in the difficult and already very long stage of denying his viscerality that everyone — literally, everyone — observes and many They suffer in our country, don’t they? *I appreciate that you have read this far, and I wish you, as always, a good thank you and many, many days!

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