Breathe
By Adela Navarro Bello
President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo promised -and so she has maintained- to eliminate reelection in positions, particularly in those of popular election, but a few days ago it became evident the lack of elimination of reelection in this country. A woman who has shown incapacity, ignorance and partiality in the defense of the human rights of Mexicans, was reelected president of the National Human Rights Commission, to the detriment of that institution.
Rosario Piedra Ibarra has systematically shown signs of her insensitivity, lack of empathy and absence of commitment to human rights, since she was elected to that position the first time, in November 2019 by ideological imposition of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Not only does she not accompany the victims in the country, the mothers, relatives and searchers of the disappeared who suffer the absence of their loved ones in a climate of impunity and corruption in the authorities in charge of justice, preventive security and police corporations and the Armed Forces; she has also marginalized Mexicans who suffer from the constitutional reforms of the party in power, by disdaining to represent them due to her partiality with the Moreno administration, particularly in the previous six-year term. The military is another of the reelected president's favorites, whom she defends from those citizens who accuse them of excesses, abuses, and even death, with the Lopezobrador rhetoric that in Mexico there is no more torture, that the military does not resort to these practices, that they do not abuse, that they do not exceed in the use of force.
Rosario Piedra Ibarra has transformed the CNDH into an ombudsman's office of the so-called quatreteista officialdom, trampling on the human rights it is supposed to defend as the ombudsperson it is.
Evidently empowered by Lopezobradorism, she did not have the good sense to retire after five years in office; she wanted five more, even though she did not pass the requirements established by the Senate of the Republic and whose participation left her out of the five best qualified persons to head the CNDH. In fact, the Morenistas decided to eliminate the person who had been in second place in the capacity measurements, in order to include her with an officialist shoehorn.
Rosario Piedra Ibarra Ibarra (not to be confused with her mother, Doña Rosario Ibarra de Piedra, an exceptional woman, activist for the disappeared, empathetic with Mexican society and a hardened searcher) it was anticipated that she would not be reelected. In the quintet of those who did pass all the Senate requirements was Nashieli Ramirez, Commissioner of Human Rights of Mexico City, who was assumed to be the candidate of choice of President Claudia Sheinbaum, but Lopezobradorism was stronger.
The architect of Piedra Ibarra's reelection was Adán Augusto López, Secretary of Government under López Obrador and Sheinbaum's opponent in the internal Morena race for the candidacy for the Presidency of the Republic; it was even evidenced how, knowing that he did not have the majority votes within Morena, where some were in favor of Nashieli, he suggested delivering the selection ballots to the senators of Morena and allies, already marked with the name of Rosario Piedra. The election process was outrageous, the senator's attitude was outrageous and the reelection already achieved was outrageous.
It is evident that for Morena the senators of their party are not individuals, but numbers that give them the qualified majority, considering the allied parties and the traitors who, opportunistically, leave a party to ally themselves with the ruling party; like the Yunes, well, unworthy as well.
That is what the officialist bloc is. There are no individuals or free thought. The vote of the Morena deputies, of the Morena senators, must and has to be in unison, trampling on the human rights of the legislative representatives, forcing them to give a vote they did not intend to deliver to fulfill the whim of a woman who was reelected when she was not prepared for the position neither in 2019 nor in 2024, as demonstrated by the fact that she did not achieve a place among the top five qualified with the parameters imposed by the same legislators who did not want to vote for her, but ended up reelecting her.
Mexico, the country that López Obrador left with more than 200 thousand executed, thousands of massacres, thousands of disappeared, with pending cases such as Ayotzinapa, with new massive homicides, with a National Guard committing crimes, being an accomplice of drug cells, disappearing people and even attacking the physical integrity of women, men, minors, requires, in the face of the abuse of power, a citizen representation in Human Rights; but Morenismo chooses to continue favoring the line of its founder, despite the fact that he remains in voluntary retirement.
The Morena party has legally terminated many institutions. They have limited the Judicial Power; they keep the Legislative Power suffocated (Adán Augusto López was an example of this); they are about to disappear the autonomous bodies, among them the Institute of Transparency and Access to Information; they have turned the data reserve into a shield for the Army and the Navy; but the CNDH has been torn apart from the inside. A conquest that was a citizen conquest at the beginning of the 90's of the last century, today it is an officialist office, defender of the government, of the Armed Forces, of the abuses of the Legislative Power, to whom it does not recommend anything because it resolves that they do not commit any excess despite the public evidence, even videotaped, of the excesses and abuses against citizens in the street.
Mexicans remain defenseless... and will remain so for five more years, arming civil organizations to defend their human rights through investigation, demonstration, protest and voice, violating integrity and life. Because the CNDH is taken over by the whim of lopezobradorismo, present in word, deed and omission of Claudia Sheinbaum.
The opinions expressed are the responsibility of the authors and are absolutely independent of the position and editorial line of the company. Opinion 51.
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