In November 1981, the head of the SHCP David Ibarra Muñoz risked his position by telling President López Portillo that he agreed with his cabinet’s subsidy projects: “Mr. President, I remind you of the current high cost of money.”
The anecdote comes to mind because the Government of the Republic, so disciplined in the balance of public finances, begins to see that discipline threatened by the pressures of inflation, high interest rates and the urgency of public spending.
If the pressures persist, it is very possible that the head of the SHCP, Rogelio Ramírez de la O., will have the opportunity to risk the position and, when pressured for additional resources, will have to say: “Mr. President, I remind you of the high cost of money”. Will he?
Succession: test the mettle of applicants
“If you ask the Presidency for help because of the attacks you receive, they will see that you don’t have the nerve to be governor,” was the friendly advice given to a candidate besieged by the campaign against him. He endured, he was a candidate first and then governor.
Palacio gave the signal to dispute the presidential candidacy of Morena lit the bonfire of ambitions and, in the style of the house, except for occasional interventions, he only observes the blows between the official candidates – read corcholatas – and the unofficial ones.
A year and a half after the nomination, the Morenista groups, in response to their historic tribal struggles, somehow facilitate the task of gauging the candidates, to find out if they have the mettle to avoid attacks without the presidential umbrella.
Security: it’s more than the homicide rate
Last week it was warned that, despite the appalling human tragedy that means that the number of intentional homicides is about to add 120,000 victims in this six-year term, the Government of the Republic closes its eyes to a greater problem.
This problem is exemplified by the information that business owners in a large area of Morelos with a successful tourist influx during Holy Week had to pay criminal gangs 10 percent of their income.
A true parallel government that, sadly, is felt in many regions of the Republic, without the governments doing anything, entertained as they are in their ideological ramblings.
SWIRL NOTES
It would be necessary for the coordinator of the Morenista majority, Ignacio Mier, and the president of the board of directors of the Chamber of Deputies, Sergio Gutiérrez Luna, to allow a goal to be scored in September, not for them, but for presidential politics, and they would approve the Plant Varieties Law. that is in commissions… If, as they say, 65,000 Central Americans will receive money from Q4 social programs, Mexico would spend about 2 billion pesos in the next twelve months… If Octavio Romero, CEO of Pemex, is careless , the basification process will create serious trade union difficulties, if it allows the ideological cobwebs of the SPTS to prevail… Luckily, the National Guard has obtained the assistance of the Italian Carabinieri to train its members. It’s about time… An existential question from the American writer Harry Shearer: “If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does not having an ounce of power make you chemically pure?” …
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