Perfect. We already know what Claudia Sheinbaun’s house is like and we even heard some guitar chords, while she was recovering from covid. We have a was account to communicate with Adán Augusto López and another with Marcelo Ebrard, with the foreign minister also infected with covid.
The three presidential corcholatas, already in the middle of the campaign, send us family photos, memories, selfies, unfold supporters who cheer them to the shout of president, and turn alleged government meetings into rallies. Probably, as a fourth corcholata who has not had the presidential blessing, Senator Ricardo Monreal, said, they are violating the law or walking on the edge of it, but what we do not know is, if they reach the presidency in 2024, is what they will do once sitting in the National Palace.
The country is experiencing a critical situation: security, beyond speeches and manipulation of figures, is out of control and people are worried, fearful and angry. The assassination of the two Jesuit priests has been the corollary of the week in which, in less than four years of government, the administration that promised that it would have security under control in a hundred days and then said that in six months, has widely exceeded the deaths that the Calderón administration had in six years, with a number of disappeared that also far exceeds 30,000 so far in the six-year term.
An example: all the main commanders of the federal security secretariat, as we have insisted many times, can be, are, respectable politicians who have every right to seek public office in the future: Rosa Icela, the head of government of the capital or Ricardo Mejía, the governor of Coahuila, but the truth is that they are as far from being security specialists as the new executive secretary of the National Public Security System, the former Morena candidate in Nuevo León, Clara Luz Flores.
There are no security specialists in the entire structure of the secretariat, but there are many politicians with legitimate ambitions, such as Alfonso Durazo, already governor of Sonora, or Leonel Cota, former governor of Baja California Sur and now in the Food Security System. .
What are the ruling party candidates going to do with security? Are they going to bet on specialists or not? Will they simply follow the presidential line or will they innovate, renew a strategy that has not produced results? Neither Marcelo Ebrard, who was secretary of security in the capital, nor Claudia Sheinbaum, who could boast of the good results with Omar García Harfuch in the city to make a difference, have spoken on the matter.
Nor Adam Augusto, directly responsible for domestic policy in the country. Monreal has insisted on several occasions that it is necessary to review the security strategy, but he has not said what he would do differently if he became president.
The economy is in crisis. We have not grown throughout the six-year term and everything indicates that in the remainder of the administration growth, if it occurs, will be marginal. Do the aspirants of the ruling party agree with the current economic policy and with lower growth than in the criticized neoliberal era? Do you really believe that the current energy policy will encourage investments that are urgent for the country?
There was a new blackout in the Yucatan peninsula because the CFE does not guarantee supply, while Pemex continues to be a bottomless barrel that is not enough to be in the black or the exorbitant increase in the price of crude oil.
In foreign policy: do you think that it is possible to grow without having a much closer position with the United States? That all kinds of conflicts can be bought with our main trading partners without real costs being generated in the bilateral relationship?
What do the aspirants of the ruling party think about the environment? Beyond decalogues for the consumption of international meetings, the truth is that the López Obrador administration has been very far from even fulfilling the commitments, relatively poor in themselves, signed by Mexico in the goals of the Paris Agreement: will we continue like this or Are there options, different alternatives that those pre-candidates already in the campaign can propose?
What are they going to do with one of the cardinal issues of our national security, such as water? While the south of the country is flooded, the entire north and center of Mexico, starting with the big cities like Mexico City, Guadalajara and, most notably, Monterrey, are running out, or have already run out, without water.
There are areas affected by a drought that lasts for months, and climate change will leave us increasingly scarce of the vital liquid. Are the pre-candidates of the ruling party considering any alternative to the current policy that seems to travel with great indifference on the subject?
Beyond the legal differences, the fact is that the pre-candidates of the ruling party are campaigning and the least we should ask them is that they tell us, beyond the anecdotal and their declared loyalty to López Obrador, what they plan to do with the country, what their own convictions and proposals are. Even Il Gatopardo reminds us that something always has to be changed, even so that everything remains the same.
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