The child of the maximato lopista
If there was one thing that Andrés Manuel López Obrador needed to emulate Plutarco Elías Calles, it was to boost the political career of one of his offspring. He has already achieved it.
If the founder of what we know today as the PRI and creator of solid institutions, such as the Bank of Mexico, for example, encouraged the eldest of his nine children to pursue a political career, the inventor of Morena, destroyer of institutions, such as the INAI, takes his son Andrés Manuel López Beltrán by the hand so that he can openly begin his electoral struggle.
Rodolfo Elías Calles Chacón was a banker, farmer, businessman and politician. He served as governor of Sonora from 1931 to 1934 and as Secretary of Communications and Public Works from 1934 to 1935 during the presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas.
Andy , the nickname by which his father’s namesake is known, has been a chocolate maker in appearance, a trafficker of influence and a palace advisor foand a that López Obrador has put into practice. A real power behind the throne.
Low profile, so much so that there are only a handful of photographs of him on the Internet — the classic one is the one in which he appears in a striped shirt, as if he were one of the “bad guys” who plague Donald Duck and which illustrates this space today — López Beltrán will formally be the second in command of the National Regeneration Movement. In practice, he will be the decision-maker and transmission belt of the instructions sent to him by his father from “La Chingada”. The president of Morena, Luisa María Alcalde , will continue to play the role of “flowerpot”, like a Daisy , just as she has done until now in the Ministry of the Interior.
Fortunately, AMLO is not like Calles in the assassination of his successor. In this case, a female successor.
And that gave rise to what is historically known as the Callista maximato.
Today, fortunately without any attack, the maximato lopista is in the making.
Upon receiving the news of the attack, the candidate who had lost the presidential election on November 17, 1929, José Vasconcelos , commented: “It is a shame that they wanted to kill ( Pascual ) Ortiz Rubio , he is nothing more than a puppet of Calles.”
The PNR, the first antecedent of the PRI, crowned one of its masterpieces: anointing El Nopalito , who had just been Mexico’s ambassador to Brazil!
On February 5, 1930, clean of dust and straw, he was sworn in as President of the Republic.
Vasconcelos’ campaign had raised a lot of dust. Too many disagreements had been stirred up for the imposition to be smooth. The era of indifference to the whims of the leaders was beginning to change.
A large group of university students had taken on the task of once again waving the flags against re-election and imposition. On the platforms, Alejandro Gómez Arias, Adolfo López Mateos, José Muñoz Cota, Miguel Palacios Macedo, Enrique Ramírez y Ramírez and Manuel Gómez Morín , among others, lit up the party.
That is why, when El Nopalito was leaving the National Palace, after the mass event at the National Stadium in the Roma neighborhood, Daniel Flores from Potosí appeared with a gun, a resentful Vasconcelos supporter who was protesting electoral fraud. Only one of the shots hit Pascual Ortiz Rubio in the jaw.
But during the lengthy trial against the man from Potosí, the prosecutors were never able to establish the motives for the attack. On April 23, 1932, Daniel Flores was found dead in his cell, the victim of pneumonia, it was said, the day after he was sentenced to 19 years in prison and to “pay 500 pesos for reparation of the damage…”
According to several analysts at the time, the damage could never be repaired, not even with all the money in the world. Because from the day of the attack, Don Pascual became terribly afraid, almost catatonic.
“…The one in charge lives across the street”
But if the real motives of the attack on February 5 were never defined, the massacre perpetrated on the lives of several Vasconcelistas did receive great publicity, since the victims of the following February 14 were found lying in Topilejo. A dog licked the arm of a corpse and from there 20 more were discovered.
Who was the author of the carnage? The charge was made against the government, and the government was undoubtedly responsible. But the government was in the Anzures neighborhood, in the mansion of Mariano Escobedo on the corner of Tolstoi, or in Cuernavaca, the usual addresses of the strong man: Plutarco Elías Calles. Never in Chapultepec Castle, the formal residence of El Nopalito , nor in the National Palace.
Since October, everything indicates that the instructions will come from the farm in Palenque that AMLO acquired with the money that Carlos Salinas gave him, through Manuel Camacho and Marcelo Ebrard , so that he could remove his protests from the Zócalo.
The family of transformation
The four governments of the so-called maximato, which includes the interregnum from the end of the government of Plutarco Elías Calles to the beginning of that of Lázaro Cárdenas, were integrated, like the “revolutionary family,” under the shelter of the leader.
Today we are already suffering from the “family of transformation”, where nepotism in public office is a constant.
Each of Calles’ three successors — appointed by him — upon taking office, thanked heaven for being able to continue counting on the help, protection, and political guidance of the professor from Guaymas, whose virtues “were recognized by the grateful Homeland.”
And so it was that El Nopalito ‘s most visible and publicized work was the underground pedestrian passage at the intersection of 16 de Septiembre and San Juan de Letrán avenues — today Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas –, apart from the construction of the “monkey island” at the Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City.
Apart from these “enormous” works, like Nicolás Maduro , Ortiz Rubio drafted an initiative to replace the Three Kings with Quetzalcóatl in the popular celebrations of January 6.
The power of the leader was such that, after declaring a “ministerial crisis” to Ortiz Rubio in full dismay — a month after taking office — Calles had the leader of the PNR, Manuel Pérez Treviño, brought to his home to address him with patriotic words.
“The entire country recognizes you as the Supreme Leader of the Revolution, which is why we have come to inform you of the resignations of the executive committee of the Party,” Pérez Treviño told him. To which, lapidary, Elías Calles replied: “We all must place ourselves on a plane of selflessness and sacrifice… we must all unify and discipline ourselves… First, discipline us…”
Ortiz Rubio had no choice and resigned.
With Calles totalitarianism was born
Calles appointed Abelardo L. Rodriguez , the driving force behind the Sicilian mafia’s investments in Tijuana casinos, as his successor. On July 20, 1934, Calles gave his famous speech in Guadalajara, emulating the fascism and Nazism in vogue that inaugurated the totalitarian State “à la Mexicana.”
“We must enter and take hold of the consciences: the conscience of children; the conscience of youth, because youth and children belong to the Revolution.”
Like any Marx Arriaga , Calles reformed Article 3 of the Constitution, according to which Mexican primary school teachers assumed the responsibility of providing children with “a rational and accurate version of the universe.”
The Red Shirts of Tomás Garrido Canabal fired on the faithful of the church in Coyoacán. Calles called Garrido Canabal “standard bearer of the Revolution.” But the Chiapas native and former governor of Tabasco had to leave the country, due to the popular protests the murderous carnival of fanaticism.
Calles’ criticism of the strikes that were damaging the country “is playing with the country’s economy, without corresponding to the President’s generosity and pro-working-class stance.”
“Out with Calles!” shouted the protesters in the Zócalo… and Cárdenas took advantage of the event to call him a “delinquent” and a “turncoat” of the Revolution.
On the night of April 9, 1934, the military raided his house and took him to the airport, along with Luis L. León , Luis N. Morones, Melchor Ortega and others. To exile.
Such is the end of the caudillos in our country.
Will Claudia Sheinbaum dare?
Or is Andy López the political life insurance that López Obrador acquired?
With AMLO, totalitarianism is reborn.
Clues
Faithful to her long-standing custom of repeating what her leader says in his matinees, the president-elect reacted to the possibility that AMLO’s son could run for a position in Morena: “They have the right to participate politically.” This, after receiving questions regarding the situation of Andrés Manuel López Beltrán, involved in corruption scandals. * * * I appreciate your reading this text. I wish you, as always, good thanks and many, many days!
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