Succession: crossfire by Line 12


The most suspicious characters of the ruling party see with different eyes the play and replay of statements and media actions on Line 12 like someone who watches a tennis match: their gazes go from one side to the other of the court of the Morenista succession.

They know that the demands for impeachment against the Head of Government of CDMX Claudia Sheinbaum are not innocuous, as are the “technical remarks on the correction of curves”, an unsubtle allusion to Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard.

That’s how the cover game was always, those with memories tell us. Perhaps, but the two main contenders for the presidential candidacy of the Official Party were never muddied by the scandal. Are they even different in that?

Humanism, now who will defend us?

Although the version of the Secretary of Security of Michoacán does not coincide with the presidential version on the “alleged persecution” of soldiers by hit men from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, what was said in the morning cooled down.

Nobody in their right mind has been or will be in favor of a version of the “search and destroy” practice used in Vietnam, but it is incomprehensible for citizens not to confront those who attack civilians and military alike.

That the soldiers, sailors and national guardsmen do not confront the assassins, to “protect the criminals who are also human”, may be exemplary humanism, to ordinary citizens it seems to give the assassins a license to kill.

Does Mexico defend this Cuban regime?

The Cuban Attorney General’s Office presented a new Criminal Code to Parliament that includes, among many other changes, punishment for Internet crimes and the financing of certain activities such as last year’s protests.

The project, according to the note in El Economista, “seeks to protect the socialist political and state system” which perhaps surprises so many who today do not want to accept that from its origin the Cuban regime was underpinned by political violence and executions.

One thing is the legend built by the talent of Fidel Castro, another is the reality of an implacable dictatorship of 62 years, today only a decadent and aging façade of a Revolution that keeps the people of Cuba backward and impoverished.

Swirling Notes

Only those well versed in economic and financial matters could answer a question about the presence at the National Palace of the CEO of the giant investment company Black Rock. How much will he have invested in private electricity generation companies in Mexico?… If, as everyone says, Américo Villarreal, a Moreno candidate for governor of Tamaulipas, of former PRI lineage, will win, it is better to think about how they will carry the party in peace with the Texan Greg Abbot who has already issued threats… Now it turns out that, according to Horacio Duarte, one of the authors of the presidential initiative for Electoral Reform says that, even if it is not approved, the INE, the Court and the entire electoral system will have to be austere. Cartridges to the cannon!… The always timely Insabi continues to fire doctors… In cloudy times, well, even in times of buzzards, Jean Paul Sartre’s advice is useful: “Every word has consequences, and so does every silence”…

Joseph Fonseca

Political Journalist

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