For the president Lopez Obrador The country is still at peace, although This weekend was the most violent of the year and Sunday was the most violent day in a long time, with more than a hundred murders.
In it electoral field last was a terrible weekend, especially in Chiapas. There were 16 murdered related to the electoral process. On Sunday there were five deaths and several injured in an attack against Morena’s candidate for the municipality of Mepascatepec, Nicolás Noriega; the comission of the Morena candidate, in Rincón Chamula, María de la Luz Hernández was attacked by hitmenthere were two deaths; On Saturday the candidate of Villa de Corzo, also from Morena, Robertony Orozco was attacked, there were three deaths among them the director of the municipal police who accompanied him; also the candidate in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Linda Higuer, was shotto, and days before, On Thursday, candidate Lucero López was murdered in an attack in La Concordia, along with five supporters during a rally. There were attacks on candidates in Quintana Roo, in Puebla, in Morelos.
There is no peace and I don’t understand how in Sunday’s debate not enough emphasis was placed on what is happening in the country in terms of violence. I imagine that for electoral consumption the accusations of a narco-candidate or narco-president have more weight, the same as showing a book with many sales and some journalistic successes but that does not always have verification from all its sources, but the truth is that I did not feel that Xóchitl took advantage of the security chapter in the debate as he could have done and did not exhibit the contradictions that inevitably arise in the ruling party on the subject. I’m not saying that Xóchitl lost the debate, but he didn’t win it as he should have and as he could have, especially with the enormous push that the demonstration of the pink tide gave him hours before. Claudia did not risk anything, she did not embark on complaints and limited herself to trying to take care of her apparent advantage.
I insist on what is apparent. There are nine days left in the campaign and 12 until the elections and I don’t believe that what we have in front of us comes closer to a mere formality election. Not only in the presidential election, but also in the thousands of popularly elected positions in dispute.
I don’t believe too much in current pollswhich have failed in Mexico and in many other countries, such as Turkey, as a political environment similar to ours, but in some of the trends they show, although the existing differences are so abysmal that it is incomprehensible to draw certain conclusions.
There cannot be double-digit advantages, when of the nine elections in dispute, Morena has lost at least three (Guanajuato, Yucatán and Jalisco) and three others are at serious risk for the ruling party (Mexico City, Veracruz and Morelos) , one more is very disputed although there is an advantage for Morena (Puebla) and victory is only assured in two (Chiapas and Tabasco). In that scenario I also do not see that Congress is going to have clear majorities, much less constitutional ones, and on the municipal level it is seen that many mayoralties, especially in medium and large cities, will be won by the opposition.
Added to that, crime is distorting the process in many states, I think none like Chiapas, where the fight between different criminal groups with conflicting political interests has affected local candidates. Over the weekend, 16 people linked to the campaigns were murdered, and 515 candidates also resigned from their positions.
With this scenario everything becomes uncertain and the four months of transition between the election and the inauguration will become the most difficult in recent years, whether Xóchitl or Claudia wins, because the president does not want to lose his prominence and will, as he already has, is doing, leaving his successors conditioned, while crime, as always happens, will be mobilized by changes in government, especially local, and this will be the biggest election in history. It should be time to try to accumulate a little common sense and a view to the future in both political poles. Today that is almost impossible.
68, Harfuch and García Barragán.
Maybe in the electoral processes It’s true that anything goes, but I still think that the ends don’t always justify the means. Both in the debate and in the post-debate, there has been an insistence on linking Omar García Harfuch with his grandfather, the general and Secretary of Defense when the events in Tlatelolco took place, Marcelino García Barragán. It is absurd to hold a candidate responsible for what was done by his parents or grandparents.
But, furthermore, García Barragán was not responsible for 68. The attack in Tlatelolco was carried out by the Olimpia Battalion, a group made up of elements of the EMP, the Federal Security, the federal and city judicial police and elements of the capital police, to ensure safety at the Olympics. This group was managed autonomously from the army or the EMP, depended on Luis Echeverría, then Secretary of the Interior, and was under the command of General Luis Gutiérrez Oropeza. The person in charge of that operation, which began with an attack on the army elements that were guarding the event in the Plaza de Tres Culturas, was Carlos Humberto Bermúdez, from the second section of the Presidential General Staff.
The key testimony to know exactly what happened and to determine responsibilities was given by General García Barragán himself, to Julio Scherer García and Carlos Monsivais and is captured in an excellent book, Parte de Guerra. There is the truth about ’68. Let’s stop the nonsense.
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