The pink tideyesterday with him support for Xochitl Galvez and Santiago TaboadaI ended up being multitudinous despite the government’s blatant boycott. Thousands and thousands of protesters were in the Plinth even though everything was done trying to reduce citizen participation: the CNTwhich has always been part of the dirty work of the national politicsstayed in the Zócalo, not only that, it gathered around the flagpole but thus using the absurd excuse that the ship could not be hoisted flag because there was their plant (the president on friday in one of his worst statements had said that the flag “was even for traitors to the country”, meaning that half of the population is made up of traitors to the country). Finally, around nine o’clock, military elements raised the flag, in the middle of clashes and assaults of the members of the CNT that were repeated before and after against the protesters of the opposition alliance. Meanwhile, the National Palace has been surrounded by three-meter-high fences.
The Mexico City government was quick to declare an environmental contingency on Saturday, even though the winds and rains that afternoon cleared up the pollution. The idea, as in the previous pink tide, was to make it difficult to reach the Zócalo. The National Palace bots launched themselves, without pause, against the pink tide with lies, insults and attacks.
But in the end none of that prevented a massive demonstration, an emotional boost for the opposition, for Xóchitl and I think above all for Taboada in the near objective of winning Mexico City. At the time of writing these lines, the presidential debate has not yet begun, but Xóchitl comes to it with all the positive stimuli possible.
Everything that was done by the government, for example, to boycott this pink tide, I sincerely believe cannot be sustained in the future, no matter who wins, in a country that aspires to be the tenth economy on the planet, to have a role in the global world and advance justice, security, prosperity.
Thinking about that, we spoke in Todo Personal with Juan Ramón de la Fuente, one of the best expressions of the currents that coexist in Claudia Sheinbaum’s team.
De la Fuente is in charge of developing Claudia’s government program. The former secretary of health, former rector of the UNAM, former representative of Mexico to the United Nations is one of the best additions that Claudia has made, he is a man who is far from those visions of whites and blacks, faithful and traitors. We spoke with De la Fuente about what change with continuity should mean in Claudia’s hypothetical government (“there is continuity in which the rectorship is maintained, but there are changes in the hows, which is how it has to be, because a transformation that is going to go to the second floor, which will go to the next stage, if it does not introduce innovations, it stops being transformative”); what must happen in the energy field (“accelerate the energy transition, move much more quickly towards renewable energies in their various modalities and maintain the stewardship of the State”). The relationship with the United States and our strategic positioning (“we are the main trading partner of the United States, we are strategic allies of the United States, there is no doubt about it, our fundamental vocation is in the North American Treaty, we constitute the most dynamic economic bloc and one of the most powerful on the planet… the priority will, of course, be the North American market.
Finally we asked him if a hypothetical Sheinbaum government would be for everyone.
“In a democracy, says De la Fuente, the approach is very clear, the Anglo-Saxons have it very well defined: ‘A democracy is one in which the majorities rule, but the minorities have rights’… I think we are going to win, I think “We will have a majority, but, of course, we will respect the rights of minorities and we will always dialogue with them.”
Six years ago, interviewing Alfonso Romo a few days before the election, who had the same responsibility that De la Fuente now has, Romo told me that the Texcoco Airport was not going to be canceled, that genetically modified seeds were going to be used. to increase agricultural production in Chiapas, that private participation in energy was not going to be reduced. At the time of governing, for whatever reason, those budgets were not met. In the event that Dr. Sheinbaum becomes President, I asked De la Fuente, will she maintain the programmatic agreements that are established?
I believe, the former rector told us, that there are going to be two major strategic lines in Dr. Sheinbaum’s government, which is what she has repeatedly proposed. First, we have to move forward in consolidating the transformation of the country’s public life and to do so we need continuity with changes. Second, the great final objective is to achieve a higher level of well-being for all and that implies sharing it. I believe that, if these two main axes are fulfilled and we try to put them into practice with specific projects, in the coming years there will be a space for everyone who has a truth to defend, a reason to put forward, in a respectful environment, where I insist, the majorities, well, they will be the majorities and they are going to enforce them, and the minorities will have their rights, which are inalienable, by the way, and we will have to respect them… I am here with conviction and with a genuine, truly, with a genuine spirit of service, because I believe that at this moment and, above all, in the coming years, Mexico requires that we all do our part.
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