Since he joined the PRI at the age of 20 and after having led student protests against the tyrannical government of President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, the economist Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon exercised the political power during his presidency from 1994 to 2000, he had the characteristics of a tyrant: authoritarian verticalism.
However, Zedillo was never able to understand politics because he believed that everything was fixed by tyrannical blows to impose and remove party officials. During his campaign he promised to maintain a healthy distance from the PRI as the party of the State, but with his tyrannical behavior he used the PRI as what it was: an organization subordinated to the tyrannical wills of the president in office of the Republic.
Zedillo was considered by Salt mines as the presidential candidate for 2000, after the six-year term of Luis Donaldo Colosio and kept it active and operating precisely with that tyrannical criterion of the president and himself accepting subordination through the tyrannical uses of power.
The facts are clear and there is documentary evidence: Zedillo was imposed by Salinas as Colosio’s campaign manager due to the lack of confidence in the Sonoran’s political weakness and his temptations to believe himself an independent candidate and begin to make pacts with Salinas’ adversaries. While Colosio was Salinas’ creation from start to finish, Zedillo came to the cabinet through the recommendation and then direct and undisguised patronage of Joseph-Marie Córdoba Montoya, the Salinas super-adviser. And as Córdoba’s tyrannical shock fist, Zedillo headed the anti-Cammachista group within the presidential cabinet.
Zedillo is living proof of Colosio’s break with Salinas, which culminated in the Sonoran’s aggressively anti-neoliberal speech on March 6 at the Monument to the Revolution. On March 19, four days before the assassination, Zedillo gave Colosio a personal letter that is documentary evidence of Salinas’ tyrannical fury against his pupil: in the text of the letter, Zedillo advised the presidential candidate to make a pact with President Salinas to reaffirm the tyrannical loyalty, which would indicate that Colosio had already agreed on the Secretary of the Interior for Manuel Camacho Solís as part of the candidate’s central commitment to the transition to democracy and not to the tyrannical maintenance of the neoliberal project of the Free Trade Agreement.
There was born the tyrannical political alliance of power between Zedillo and Salinas, in which Córdoba Montoya was a key piece: after the assassination of Colosio, still as an open wound in the judicial process, Salinas imposed by finger-pointing –aided by the now ousted PRI member Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera, one of the politicians closest to the sacrificed candidate– Zedillo as the substitute candidate, and Zedillo wearily bowed his head to the political tyranny of Salinas, but already with the presidential sash he dedicated himself to politically and illegally persecuting Salinas to clear the air of the fact that he was the beneficiary of the assassination.
Zedillo exercised tyrannical power over the PRI, publicly humiliated it and ruled it with a tyrannical hand out of the public eye, although the PRI prepared a trap for him into which Zedillo naively fell: at the XVII PRI assembly in 1996, the PRI members put a lock on a previously elected position for the presidential candidate of 2000. Zedillo, as a good tyrant, understood the abuse of power but not politics and he came up against the wall of that obstacle when he tried to impose by finger pointing as presidential candidate one of the valid neoliberal technocrats, Guillermo Ortiz Martínez or José Ángel Gurría Treviño, both also sponsored by Córdoba Montoya.
In a tyrannical rage, Zedillo interfered in the internal process of the PRI candidacy to prevent the nomination by open vote of Manuel Bartlett Díaz or Roberto Madrazo Pintado and had no other card to play than that of Francisco Labastida Ochoa, a mixture of technocrat and politician who had submitted by his own decision to the tyrannical mandates of Zedillo’s neoliberalism. But later in the campaign, Zedillo abandoned Labastida, took revenge on the PRI by denying it public resources for the campaign and threatened the PRI members on election day with imprisonment if they tried to benefit the PRI candidate.
More of an authoritarian tyrannical than a democratic politician, Zedillo punished the PRI by handing over the presidency of the Republic to the PAN and went to the United States to work for American companies that he had privatized during his administration.
Politics for dummies: politics is the bitter art of memory.
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