Ricardo Pascoe Pierce
The letter published by Andrés Manuel López Beltrán, known as Andy, has sparked widespread commentary, mostly negative, from all political quarters in the country. He sought to defend his lavish trip to Japan, but it backfired. The bullet hit him and his image. He emerged from the experience as a daddy’s boy, a junior, and a nouveau riche who struggles to explain the origin of his wealth. He emerged politically battered from the experience and with a personal image that will be difficult to reverse.
However, a reading of the letter, beyond the points mentioned above, reveals political situations that deserve closer attention.
In point three of the letter, he makes what appears to be an explosive confession. He says, verbatim: “My adversaries and the hypocritical conservatives who only see the speck in their neighbor’s eye and not the log in their own sent their spies to photograph and harass me to launch a political lynching campaign steeped in hatred, classism, and slander…”
His accusation against “hypocritical conservatives” can surprise or scare no one. It is what his father said throughout the previous six years, and what the president is repeating in this term. Conservatives are all of us who disagree with the actions and authoritarian drift that the Fourth Transformation is imposing on the country. No matter how deep the ideological differences between “conservatives” on the right, center, and left, they are all “hypocritical conservatives.”
But what is interesting about his comment is that he acknowledged that he has “adversaries.” Who are his adversaries? If they are not conservatives and hypocrites, they must be relevant actors within Morena. There are no others. Andy acknowledges that there are profound political differences within Morena, to such an extent that they are capable of organizing an espionage operation against him in Japan, as well as against Monreal, Delgado, Haces, Fernández Noroña, Sansores, the Yunes, and others.
The admission of political differences within Morena by his father’s heir is extraordinarily relevant. It expresses recognition of the existence of an internal civil war (my phrase) within the ruling bloc. Journalist Raymundo Riva Palacio speculates that it comes directly from Sheinbaum, as the alleged beneficiary of the Obradorista crisis, and from her operator Harfuch, who is capable of mobilizing international espionage agencies to access information on several relevant actors in the official party.
Whether Riva Palacio’s opinion is correct or not, it must be acknowledged that the coincidence of so many espionage actions did indeed come from some inspiring source. In any case, the relevant point in Andy’s letter is the acknowledgment of the internal war within Morena. He implicitly warns: fire will be answered with fire.
On the other hand, the rest of the letter draws attention to the extremely low intellectual level of his father’s heir. In his defense, he uses trite, worn-out phrases whose value has sunk into the depths of political rhetoric that does not convince even the Servants of the Nation. He claims that the publication of the photographs is the work of the “underworld of journalism,” equivalent to the “perversity of the economic and political mafia.” He adds that “we are not the same, we are not corrupt… and since I was a child, I learned that power is humility… that austerity is a matter of principle… as President Juárez recommended.”
He ends with the mantra that today sounds like an empty shell full of demagoguery: “do not lie, do not steal, and do not betray…” Phrases that reveal a complete lack of ideas of his own and an inability to articulate new ideas in a modern and fresh way. Instead, in the face of adversity, he hides behind the easy way out: responding with slogans devoid of ideas or authenticity. He hides in the lowest depths of Palenque.
Andy’s letter makes it clear that he is threatening a fierce civil war within Morena, with no prisoners taken. And Mexico will be the horrified observer of a spectacle that will humiliate the entire nation.
@rpascoep
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