The government navigates confident in ignorance, the population’s lack of interest in being informed and the blind passion that AMLO generates in a sector of the population. The rest of us, the other Mexico, watch in astonishment as the bad decisions and blunders of the government do not mobilize anyone. We watch with astonishment and resignation as the country and its government shipwreck in successive scandals and injustices. There is a kind of resignation to the tragedy, to the collective stupidity, to the destiny that we have earned, who knows based on what.
By now, I think it’s clear that the nation’s attorney general is anything but autonomous and independent. The Supreme Court of the Nation has shown that he has used his position for personal revenge and the recent request to investigate 5 more scientists for diversion of money and use of illicit resources reveal his obsessions and revenge. It has been shown that his doctoral thesis is plagiarism and CONACYT’s response is implausible: since the person who held the copyright has already died, the prosecutor cannot be accused, since the interested party is no longer in this world, which is equivalent to that I plagiarize Don Quixote and since Cervantes died several centuries ago, I can present that work as mine. The prosecutor should be in jail or at least resign in the face of public disrepute and the Senate, which has the power to do so, should have asked for his resignation. Nothing has happened and the public ridicule has become the defense of the president and what he calls, the president himself, politicking. The prosecutor, once in charge of the command of Operation Condor (a group of soldiers and agents to eliminate alleged guerrillas in Sinaloa), walks freely in the corridors of the government and locks himself in his house behind a bank vault door, for some reason. reason will be
At the beginning of the present administration, the then senior official of the Ministry of Finance took all the tools to concentrate purchases and expenses of the government in its entirety. In reality, only one of her: from her desktop computer, scandalized officials say, she deposited hundreds of millions into the institutional accounts of whoever had a need that she considered reasonable, according to her personal criteria. One of the main enemies of the government was the pharmaceutical companies and medicine distributors. A health official with proven credentials of efficiency and professionalism was asked to create a distribution system, to which he replied with great pleasure, but that they had to give him time (at least one or two years) to create such a system. The Senior Official threatened him by telling him that the president would find out about his complicity with the pharmaceutical companies and that he did not want to comply with a presidential order to put an end to the vested interests of pharmaceutical companies and distributors. She finally accused him in a cabinet meeting, the official was asked to resign immediately and we already know the result. Three years later, the shortage of medicines continues, children with cancer die and the health system is in worse condition than at the beginning of the six-year term.
The New York Times said that day in its editorial that the stupidest decision that any ruler could have made in recent years was that of the Mexican government suspending the construction of the New Mexico International Airport in Texcoco. The president, however, was proud, he had shown that he was not a vase. Which we already knew, but he still did it. He offered us that the army would build an airport in record time at the Felipe Angeles military airfield. Finally, and against all the advice of national and foreign experts, the project was abandoned, without having been fully concluded. There is a lack of access, it is far from fulfilling its mission and it will be inoperative in a short time, since it does not have the necessary size. To put an end to this folly, the rearrangement of the routes, the lack of training and the dismissal of a good number of air traffic controllers for supposed savings, meant that this Saturday they were at risk of colliding two Volaris aircraft at the CDMX Airport.
The examples are repeated every day. Claudia Sheimbaum and her report about the accident on line 12, which is now tendedious for implicating her in the lack of maintenance. Anyway.
We are facing an inept government, with 11 million newly poor and multiple problems that have not been resolved and aggravation of others, such as inflation and lack of investment. The tragedy is here and the example buttons increase, with impavides we have been staying silent, nothing more, but also nothing less.
Lawyer, political scientist and economist
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Essayist and interested in legal and justice issues. currently professor at the Faculty of Law of the UNAM.