When the pride is combined with the banalitythe results, in everything, but particularly in the policy, they end up being very bad. If we add to that some, or many, doses of corruption the result is usually fatal. It’s some of what’s going on with Samuel Garciahe governor of Nuevo León.
months ago Samuel challenged the local congress even though he had practically no positions in it, he despised the opposition parties and aspired to be a presidential candidate despite the fact that a couple of years earlier he had harshly criticized his predecessor, Jaime Rodríguez The Bronco for having asked license to compete in the 2018 elections. TO The Bronco besides had him imprisoned, although he was finally released due to lack of evidence. I use threats and complaints to try to carry out an agenda that the only thing it gave him was projection (more for his rudeness as a junior than for his political proposals) and the support of the President López Obrador that he perceived it like a good instrument for divide the opposition.
He tried to be a presidential candidate without leaving the governorship and when he understood that the complaints that they had already started their opponents were going to prosper if he left that position, he abandoned his aspirations, appointed without his party’s intervention Jorge Álvarez Máynez Instead, in an unforgettable session on the networks in which, amidst beers and chatter, the now candidate occupied that position. Many at MC found out at that time. Some who had long disagreed with the strategy of Samuel and Dante Delgadolike the governor of Jalisco, Enrique Alfaro, they made it clear that doing politics with beers, insults, and glowing tennis shoes was not their thing. Something similar was done by Luis Donaldo Colosio Riojas, who left the mayor of Monterrey to seek the senatorship and believed that the opposition should be united.
The truth is that months later everything seems to have fallen apart for García. On Wednesday, the tragedy of the Máynez rally in San Pedro occurred, leaving 9 dead and 50 injured. The argument that the wind was surprising and that there were no warnings was denied by both the meteorological service and CONAGUA, which had warned early on of the possibility of rain, strong winds and even tornadoes. Evidently, there were serious problems in the assembly of the stage, where the group Bronco would play after the campaign event, and a screen that was not properly adjusted flew away, dragging the entire structure with it. The civil protection review did not occur or was negligent.
At the same time, it was revealed that the governor had purchased, through a company he has with his father, a 17-hectare property in the most exclusive area of San Pedro Garza García, which was officially valued at about 300 million pesos, although It is estimated to be worth between 700 and 1.2 billion. The governor had to acknowledge that he had acquired that property but said that it had been given to his family firm for services provided to one of the largest companies in Nuevo León, Gentor, owned by the Garza Calderón family. But Gentor, through a media statement, strictly denied that and any other operation with the governor’s consultancy, said that the claim that he had paid with land was false and rejected her involvement in political issues. A disaster for García that could even have judicial consequences.
Because a political trial is also pending against him for not having delivered the accounts for the 2023 financial year to the state congress in a timely manner. The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation decided that it could continue this process against the governor but that until the Superior Court of Justice of the State decided, Samuel could continue in office.
In reality, all of this will be decided in the June 2 elections where in Nuevo León, in addition to federal deputies and senators, the formation of the local congress will be decided, and 51 mayoralties, including that of Monterrey, where Samuel’s wife is competing, the influencer Mariana Rodríguez, against one of the governor’s biggest adversaries, Adrián de la Garza.
A terrible scenario is perceived for Samuel, for the MC current led by Dante Delgado and for the candidate Máynez whose very pro-Claudia performance in the last debate left him in a very bad position. If we add to that the probable triumph of Pablo Lemus in Jalisco (in a position that is highly disputed by Morena), a state where Alfaro’s current prevailed, the future of MC may be very different from what its national leadership and the Samuel García himself.
Fentanyl overdoses In the United States it was reported this week that the number of deaths from overdoses of fentanyl and other drugs has decreased by a small percentage. There were 111,000 overdose deaths in 2022 and last year, in 2023, there were 107,500 deaths. There are still many, almost double the number of American deaths in the Vietnam War (59,000 in the entire war) each year, but it is the first time in recent years that the rate has decreased instead of increasing.
The causes, according to a NYT report, are not so much in the reduction of supply, which is still very high in fentanyl, often mixed with other drugs, but in greater control over the sale of legal opiates, but above all in the preventive measures and the very wide use of products such as naxalone, to avoid deaths from overdose. It is a signal about what policies should be followed.
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