It is not the first time that intellectuals, poets, artists, historians, academics, journalists, essayists, filmmakers, and scientists warn against “authoritarian drift” of the López Obrador government.
Nor is it new that the president insults them, like yesterday, calling them “bailers of the corrupt oligarchy.”
The original thing is that the insulted openly call support the opposition bloc already vote by Xochitl Galvez.
It overwhelms the list of almost 300 conveners, among whom are Gabriel Zaid, Federico Reyes Heroles, José Sarukhán, Ángeles Mastretta, Héctor Aguilar Camín, Enrique Krauze, Alberto Ruy Sánchez, Rafael Pérez Gay, Alma Maldonado, Carlos Tello Díaz, Delia Juárez, Federico Berrueto; Franciscos Barnés and Martín Moreno; Gilberto Guevara Niebla, Guillermo Sheridan, Jaime Labastida, Joel Ortega, José Carreño Carlón and Narro Robles; Margarita González Gamio, María Marván, Martha Sosa, Roberta Garza, Roberto Blancarte, Román Revueltas and Xavier Velasco.
In July 2020, alluding to the approaching 2021 midterm elections, they signed a premonitory statement that earned them AMLO’s contempt in a letter titled Blessed Courage, stating that “they have always defended the neoliberal or neo-Porfirist model” and celebrating that “they group together, define themselves and put aside simulation to seek to restore the old regime, characterized by anti-democracy, corruption and inequality…”
The irreproachable and consistent thinker of the solid left spoke for the signatories of the recent manifesto Roger Bartra, and perhaps no one better than him: sociologist, anthropologist and academic, he trained in the peasant movement of Rubén Jaramillo and joined the banned Mexican Communist Party, where he promoted the reformist current of social democratic orientation. He directed the magazine El Machete and in 1987 he abandoned political militancy. He is an ethnologist from the National School of Anthropology and History of the INAH and received his doctorate as a sociologist from the University of Paris. He is a member of the Institute of Social Research of UNAM, where he is an emeritus researcher, and of the Mexican Academy of Language since 2012.
“We have decided to demonstrate publicly because the government of López Obrador and his party intend to extend the authoritarian drift during the next six-year term, which represents a serious threat to democracy,” said Bartra.
Two years ago, when he turned 80, in MILLENNIUM he defined “populist-reactionary” to Lopez Obrador. “We live in these times of anxiety and tension,” he stated then, “but in any case we are still in democratic conditions. This reactionary blow to democracy has not yet been consummated and we will see if it can be consummated.”
And in November of the same year, for the Laberinto supplement, he declared:
“Very few already assume that AMLO represents the ideals of the left. I never believed it, so it didn’t hurt me that he didn’t live up to those ideals. It makes me sad, yes, that the left is on the brink of extinction…”
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