Batres gives another flip to the turtle

By Ivabelle Arroyo

 In the marvelous stairs of Mexico's surreal authoritarianism, we recently witnessed the construction of a new step. The president, apparently tired of the subtle charms of the Senate, decided that democracy was too perverse a game because it gives a voice to others and chose to directly appoint Lenia Batres as Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation. From the beginning he had every intention of doing it alone, or why did he send impassable nominations to the Senate?

And of course, after the Senate had the audacity to reject his choices, the president decided that the best way to deal with this setback was to get his way and appoint Batres because after all, who needs the legitimacy of the Senate when you can have a presidential appointment and a minister who owes everything, but everything to her political boss?