Ricardo Pascoe Pierce
At no time in the recent history of the country has there been a moment of so many aggressive and malicious attacks by a President against the citizens. This week he unleashed his attacks against all the institutions of the Mexican State that do not kneel before his power.
The attacks on the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation have all the stamp and stench of a dictator. He attacks the business sector, articulating his contempt with acts of threat and outright expropriation. He mocks the intelligence emanating from reflection, study, and knowledge generation centers because he governs “with other data”. He minimizes the Catholic Church and exalts Evangelical and Protestant groups, seeking to provoke a modern “Cristero war”.
He disdains the world of journalism, journalists, and those he considers opponents, limiting freedom of the press and expression. He launches the government apparatus to deflate the opposition and exalts an increasingly corrupt Army committed to the cause of the rupture of the constitutional order. He glorifies drug trafficking as the genuine nationalist businessmen that Mexico needs.
The moment is black, very black, for the future of Mexico. And what is said about the opposition is tragically true: its lack of definitions, the lack of accurate reflexes in the face of official attacks, the hesitation in defining a clear course, and the inability to convince outside the red circle are serious containment dikes to operate the recovery of the country in 2024 effectively.
His candidates to succeed him, “corcholatas“, totally occupy the oxygen of the electoral environment. They are not the solution the country requires but are on the way to becoming entrenched in power. In reality, they are tiny, as they showed with the vacuum they created for the country when the President suffered a medical predicament we do not know what a short time ago. None of them appeared with the leadership capable of leading the nation in times of crisis. And it is true that as of October 2024, Mexico will require strong and legitimate leadership to begin the difficult path towards the institutional reconstruction of the country, at the same time that the wounds and grievances that AMLO will leave behind when he leaves the Presidency are healed.
And that brings us to the real problem. The damage inherited by this six-year term is profound, and so will be the divisions that will be faced by whoever remains in the Presidency of Mexico. How to heal the wounds of a country when they have been self-inflicted?
How can the country be healed by whoever wins the Presidency riding on the merry-go-round of the one who promoted division, polarization, and hatred? Will it be possible to achieve the love/hate effect necessary to win by the hand of the progenitor and then bite that same hand to take a different route? It does not look easy, to say the least. Nor do we see the necessary wood for such an operation in the Morena pre-candidates.
The dilemma then remains: What do the Morena candidates offer us? More of the same but weakened, futile, apathetic before sustaining polarization until death, theirs or that of the entire population, including alliances with dictators throughout Latin America?
Because AMLO is projecting a civil-military alliance entrenched in power, oiled by the corruption of all with all, in the style of the Roman Empire in its final stage of decadence and decomposition.
In other words, the corcholatas will simply manage the table set by López Obrador of servility, decadence, corruption, militarism, and alliances between dictators and drug traffickers. This explains why their campaigns lack proposals. The table is set for them. Their role is not to devise renovating proposals but to sit at the head of the table and pretend to be the Federal Executive. In essence, a long and black night is being prepared for Mexico.
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