Breathe
By Areli Paz
Time: duration of an event in a given space.
Power: Ability to transform with a decision
Claudia Sheinbaum: President of Mexico and then?
How long did it take a woman to take the presidency of this country? 200 years.
With this figure you will be able to understand how historic October 1, 2024 was with Claudia Sheinbaum.
No one can begrudge what happened when a woman received the presidential sash.
But the idea that we are all here and it is time for women resonates in my head a thousand times, especially because statistics show that the road is very long and winding.
No women's time when 10 women are still murdered in 24 hours.
No women's time when searching mothers are still waiting for a government response.
No time for women when it was a man who planned the strategy to put a woman as his successor.
No time for women when speaking only to like-minded women.
The phrase is beautiful, romantic and inspiring, but it's not real... yet.
So what is it time for? To add up, to multiply and not allow the advancement of women to stop.
It is time to fulfill ourselves, to respect those next to us, to make them succeed in order for us to succeed, it is time to listen, to put the weakest close to us. It is time to speak, to demand and to go out every day with the slogan that a woman is successful every day.
The president fills her mouth when she says that it is time for women, which is appreciated, but she has no time to waste, much less in cheap speeches, as we are tired of those with men who lied and did not create real conditions for security and equal opportunities.
If it really is time for my if we really are all here Sheinbaum will have to go faster, we will have to see her sitting next week with the searching mothers, we have to see her close to the victims who lost their businesses or homes in the floods, we have to see her talking to journalists who do not think like her or her movement.
We need to see her talking to men who question her, we want to hear her in public squares other than the zócalo with her people.
We want her talking to the opposition, talking to the workers of the Judiciary, we want her sitting with Norma Piña, president of the Supreme Court.
We want her to be passionate about making this country better, not from the cardboard of a lectern cared for in a Palace from which we are all distant.
We want it to give orders for science, technology and innovation.
We want it in international forums defending what we are, what we do and what we say. We want it making strategic alliances, thinking big and not believing that the forgiveness requested from Spain is a limitation.
I would love to one day sit down with the women of Opinion 51, there are all colors, flavors, textures and emotions. And I give that example because that is where we have learned to be careful, respectful and allies, even if we don't think alike. In that micro-world, "of the world", we women have learned to multiply and that is what we want Claudia to do.
It is time to create conditions for more women to take power, not because of quotas or fashion, but because of their capacity and development strategy.
After 72 hours we already know that Claudia Sheinbaum cannot separate herself from López Obrador's bad decisions and his burdens. But we also know that if she wants to and has the will, she can write a better history for this country, because we are not all there, but we are willing to rebuild from wherever we can.
The only party that Claudia should have today is that of Mexico, not Morena.
He has already given his first nod with constitutional changes to improve women's lives, the challenge is not to say it, but to do it. Will he be able to?
Only then will we be able to say that if it was women's time...
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