Breathe
By Adela Navarro
Mexican politicians, particularly those who now govern the country under Morena, have developed a selective empathy. In their sworn office to serve everyone regardless of race, creed, political affiliation, age, social stratum or ideology, they do not defend all social causes, nor do they support all of society, particularly those who organize themselves and group together, precisely because of the insensitivity of public servants to meet their demands and satisfy their needs.
Among all the civil society groups that have had to gather in the face of the incapacity and insensitivity of the authorities to respond and fulfill their role of governing for all, in recent years, those of relatives of the disappeared who have undertaken the search for their loved ones, armed with picks and shovels, abandoned by the government and driven by the need to locate their relatives, stand out.
In all the states of the Mexican Republic there are collectives searching for people. In all states, these groups are ignored by governments and state prosecutors. In Baja California, for example, there was the case when the searchers were not helped by the State Attorney General's Office (FGE) to accompany them with machinery in their search and the government was relentless in its indifference: a Morena congressman (Juan Manuel Molina, his name is) sent a statement with images where he is seen giving search collectives tools such as picks and shovels, acquired for his personal boast, with public legislative resources.
With the discovery by the collective Guerrero Searchers of Jalisco on March 5 of this year in a ranch of death and extermination in Teuchitlán, Jalisco, the apathy, indifference and governmental inability to address the cause of the disappeared, which totals hundreds of thousands of cases in the country in the last ten years, has been more palpable, evidencing that selective empathy that seems to distinguish the politicians who today concentrate power in Mexico.
Not only the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo held a meeting with her party's supporters in the Zócalo on March 9, three days after the extermination ranch was discovered. She congregated governors of her party, legislators and party leaders, and a week later, she was seen dancing with a high school girl in Chiapas, as part of her tours. The President's empathy is with the girl who happily dances, but not with the one whose father, brother or grandfather is missing.
Claudia Sheinbaum has tried in every way to escape responsibility for having contributed, in some way, to the existence of an extermination ranch of the Jalisco Cartel - New Generation. Whether as a tragic and fatal inheritance of the policy of Abrazos, no balazos that prevailed in the period of his predecessor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, which provided impunity to the drug cartels to make extermination ranches, murder people, disappear others, extort some more; or because the Attorney General's Office (FGR) does not exercise its power and obligation to investigate and prosecute the cases of crimes that under its jurisdiction it must investigate, such as an apocryphal facility where people were kept kidnapped, deprived of their freedom, where weapons of exclusive use of the Army were used, where crematories were set up to dispose of bodies and where remains were buried, the head of the Federal Executive Power has even tried to blame the opposition and her "adversaries" for paying millions of pesos in social networks to "attack" her with the discovery of the horror in Teuchitlán, as if the social indignation throughout the country for what happened there was not organic, was not legitimate, was not a terrible reality of the country.
The national president must justify that someone is paying for these mentions before believing that this is how a part of the people think and feel that she governs for all.
Yesterday, Thursday, March 20, the searchers returned to the ranch of the extermination, after the Attorney General's Office intervened only to hold the Jalisco Prosecutor's Office responsible for omissions, without bringing the case for investigation, but condemning the local authority. What the searchers found 15 days after having located the ranch, affected them greatly: they erased all the evidence of the death, of the extermination, of the deprivation of people's freedom, of the crematoriums, of the training and confinement areas, of the presence of what is supposed to have been hundreds of people who lived in terrible and fatal conditions, on that property.
Neither the Attorney General's Office, nor the Presidency of the Republic, nor the Jalisco Prosecutor's Office, will be able to erase the videos taken by search groups when they located hundreds of objects that once belonged to their missing persons: backpacks, clothes, shoes, personal items and clothing. Buried bones, remains that once made up a human being. Against the government's cleansing of all evidence of the commission of crimes on that ranch is the evidence of the atrocity documented by the searchers before the governments arrival.
The collectives that went to the extermination ranch on Thursday, March 20, are indignant and frustrated. Alejandra, one of the searching mothers, summarized: "I felt more pain, I thought that coming here was going to give me a little calm and I'm leaving worse".
Like many others, she felt mocked by the disappearance of all evidence on the part of the authorities, "... the Government, it is not acceptable to make fun of us, you enter like in a zoo, a museum, where I do not come to make fun of anyone; I come to look for my son and my nephew, the only thing I want is to find them".
Alejandra invited the authorities to accompany them, to understand them, that "we have a piece of heart here". But neither she nor the collectives of searchers throughout the states of the Mexican Republic, nor the disappeared, have the empathy of a political class that is selective with social causes, indifferent to the pain of a part of the population, in which they do not even leave "a piece of heart".
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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