Effects of the powerful presidential word

When, during a tour in a southern state, a provincial journalist did not ask, he rebuked President Adolfo López Mateos, he did not respond, but annoyed he commented to the state delegation: “Who does he think he is to speak to the President like that?”

It was never known who in the entourage decided to punish the journalist. Within a week they murdered him. President López Mateos never knew. Collateral damage, caused by the power of the presidential word, as powerful today as it was 60 years ago.

About the attack against Ciro Gómez Leyva, it was written here: “it was the result of the violent presidential rhetoric of labeling critics as enemies”, but nothing changes, risky indifference to the collateral damage of the powerful presidential word.

Real estate cartel: for me that everyone…

At the level of the so-called red circle, the relentless campaign of the CDMX government against the so-called “real estate cartel” to sanction PAN characters that took 9 of the 16 capital city halls from them does not cease.

It is as if in the mayors that Morena governed and governs there were no abuses in the granting of construction licenses; but they calculate that this way they will be able to defeat the opposition in the 24th.

It is difficult for the Morenista campaign to be electorally beneficial, because when the ruling party denounces the “real estate cartel”, the ordinary citizen paraphrases Porfirio Remigio from Hidalgo: “for me they are all puff pastry”.

Is there support for foreign policy?

Although foreign policy, in its very modern left-wing version, seems only to be part of the image for domestic policy, it would be useful to know if, in order to open so many external fronts, the Mexican government has Latin American support.

Because, in addition to the lawsuit with the Peruvian government, on the verge of breaking relations, criticism of the OAS is renewed and the Alliance for Prosperity is proposed, which, of course, would be sustained with resources from the United States.

As in real domestic politics, in foreign affairs the pragmatism of each ruler also prevails, so it is pertinent to ask if Mexico has the support of the Brazilian Lula and the Argentine Fernández. Without them, we plowed into the sea.

SWIRLING NOTES

The head of the Interior Adán Augusto López fulfilled another order. He helped choose the replacement for Ignacio Ovalle in Segalmex… The national leader of the PRI Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas seems to imitate the Great Wallenda, the legendary tightrope specialist… The growing intolerant arrogance of some ruling party characters resembles the shirts Mussolini’s blacks, those who, according to Cesare Pavese, when beating you warned you: “if you defend yourself, you are attacking me”… The Pemex business plan that Octavio Romero approved by the Board of Directors estimates that by the end of 2023 the Dos Bocas refinery would produce one million barrels per day, far from the goal set by Sener… Carlos Joaquín González has his embassy in Canada frozen in the Senate. Jesusa Rodríguez, already with the placet in her pocket, decided to decline to represent Mexico in Panama… The great writer Francis Scott Fitzgerald described the present almost a century ago: “And so we go forward, boats against the current, incessantly dragged towards last” …