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Adela Navarro

Ceci and Amparo*.

Ceci does not traffic in pain. Ceci suffers the pain of a Mexico where impunity, crime and violence reign, especially in this six-year term, particularly exacerbated by the Obradorian policy of hugs, not bullets, in the fight against organized crime and drug cartels.
Ceci and Amparo*.

By Adela Navarro

Before stepping down as Secretary of Public Administration in February 2020, Eréndira Sandoval declared, in connection with the call for the first mega-march on March 8, International Women's Day, and the work stoppage the following day, March 9, that Andrés Manuel López Obrador was "the most feminist President in Mexico's contemporary history".

Andnot only with the fences with which the President of Mexico usually besieges the National Palace every March 8 since 2020, but also with different and repeated actions, Eréndira Sandoval's statement goes to the ground.

Last week, the first week of May 2024, the President contradicted his former collaborator, when with unbridled fury he launched himself against two of the country's women activists. First, on Thursday, May 2, he attacked the mother seeker Ceci Flores, and then, on Friday, May 3, he attacked the president of the civil organization Mexicans Against Corruption, María Amparo Casar.

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