They still remain 40 days of Campaign. I have been going out to meet people for 50 days, I started on the 1st. of March. I have shaken hands with 21,850 people, more than the 16 thousand that can fit into the Teodoro Mariscal stadium in Mazatlan. The day I walked the most was 15 km 800 meters. In this time I accumulated a total of 433km 200 meters; something like leaving Mazatlan to the Concha in Escuinapa, return and leave again, walking. Of course, always paying attention to Concord and rosary beadsthe four municipalities that make up the Federal District 1.
In my conversations, I discover mixed feelings in the territory. People are frustrated, “cured of fear” we say in Sinaloa. He doesn't believe in anyone or anyone. The pinto is as bad as the red one. Everyone promises and doesn't deliver. They come bells and they appear, but they do not return. Regardless of whether it is in a neighborhood or subdivision, in a rural or urban area, there is a feeling of abandonment.
However, despite their annoyance, they want to believe. They need to believe! They rebel against resignation. They want an alternative. Being themselves the product of the daily effort to get ahead, resignation is not an option. Hence the importance of going out to meet, face to face. People will vote for “the monkey”, no longer for “the brand”.
Build a second floor to the Fourth Transformation It means throwing people into resignation. His mechanism to achieve this is lies.
Lies kill, impoverish and cancel hope. The best way to demonstrate it is to confront it. They don't like data because it strips it bare, tells a story about its inconsistency. They say “everything is fine,” but the dead pile up in their path. In Sinaloa the authority argues, “these are things that happen.”
His ineptitude is very expensive. During the COVID-19 224,244 people died due to his clumsy handling of the crisis (https://www.comisioncovid.mx/) the death of children with cancer is aggravated by the lack of medicinewhich causes a change in treatments or medication regimen (https://www.forbes.com.mx/falta-de-medicamentos-ha-agravado-casos-de-cancer-curable-en-terminal-denuncian/) ; 11 women disappear daily in the country (https://www.observatoriofeminicidiomexico.org/), but the government calls itself the most equal. Lie!
Their lies multiply the lack of inequalities for entire families. During the Morena government, They have cut 103 billion pesos from educational programs. Time schools disappearedof indigenous education, migrant, children's roomsthe day care centers, and a great etcetera. They allocate 81 pesos per teacher for their training, 17 times less than in 2016. They say they have “redirected” it for scholarships, but in 2023 there were 1.4 million girls, boys and young people who abandoned their studies.
The truth is hopeful. On the contrary, incongruity is the first cousin of lies. We are going for a more even floor to move forward, NOT for a second floor of a destructive transformation. What is transcendent are the people, not the cult “of the person.”
The unsafety It is fought with opportunities. Let's support people's efforts and not abandon them to their fate on the “street.” 1) “Full-time school” is committed to the learning of girls, boys, and young people, without leaving aside that of their families and teachers; 2) Childcare centers and daycare centers open the way for women who need or want to continue working; 3) Working life becomes increasingly complicated after the age of 60, which is why the “65 and over” program not only stays, it starts five years earlier; 4) The fight against the lack of opportunities lies in the support of the working class, such as fishermen, farmers, ranchers and small merchants, from whom nearly 20 social support programs were taken away; 5) Having health, everything else is vanity; People are afraid of getting sick because those who govern today privatized the health sector, medicines have to be bought, there are none.
MORE THAN A CHANGE means, above all, returning to words the value of facts. The word at the service of a cause: the people. That's why we do politics. That is why I walk, I dialogue and I commit. I do it with people at the door of their house, I don't look back to see who gives me permission in Culiacán or in Mexico City. This alone makes us different.
#LaTareaEsDeTodxs
So be it.
Errata. In my April 7th delivery I made a mistake. I said that “the anti-COVID Czar”, Hugo López Gatell, had been awarded (protected) with a multi-member Senate to give him “power”. He didn't reach her. In his place, he was appointed general coordinator of Politics and Government in the office of the Presidency of the Republic.
Juan Alfonso Mejía is a Doctor in Political Science and a social activist in favor of education.
More from the same author:
#CHANGE
