Breathe
By Lillian Briseño
The SCJN's decision to invalidate the judicial reform fell like a bucket of cold water for democrats defending the division of powers in Mexico. I do not know if the proposed alternative would have provoked, as they say, a constitutional crisis of worse consequences, but the news was felt like an earthquake.
Hours later, on this same black Tuesday, we went to sleep in a scenario in which everything pointed to Donald Trump being elected president of the United States, as was finally confirmed in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Thus or darker the national and international panorama for this day.
Rivers of ink flowed in Mexico and around the world about these two news items in just a few hours.
Regarding the SCJN case, everything was said: that democracy is over in Mexico; that there are no limits to do or undo with the Constitution; that Claudia is shooting herself in the foot; that the Moreno supporters are divided; that some leaders are in a "I won't let myself or my party down because I am very macho, and do as you please" attitude.
Trump, for his part, once again grabbed Mexicans as pigs in his campaign to say how bad the "bad hombres" here are. That if they are going to impose a 25% tax on exports; that if they are going to send back 4 million migrants; that if the T-MEC is going to disappear; that if the cartels are going to be considered terrorists; that if the Chinese...
Beyond Mexico and the United States, we no longer have to worry about Dantesque scenes like the ones we just saw due to the floods in Valencia, Spain, because Trump will say that climate change is an invention. With that, carbon dioxide emissions will continue in the neighboring country polluting the whole world, but who cares, if Trump says that global warming is a lie.
Wars, well, wars, surely, will continue and the gringos will make their own arrangements to make it so. Trump and Putin are already very friendly, and Netanyahu salivates at the thought that the US will support Israel even more. Some dictators are overjoyed with the arrival of the strongman to the presidency of our neighboring country and will embrace each other celebrating the good news for their regimes. Congratulations Bukele and Milei.
Gringos will be very happy with their new president or, at least, a very good part of them who are the ones who gave him their vote of confidence so that he could be reelected. What does it matter that Trump has been accused of 34 crimes to which we can add direct expressions of misogyny, homophobia, racism and discrimination. It does not matter, because under his tutelage, his voters believe that he will achieve what he has preached so much: Make America Great Again.
What has happened this week, which is no longer Halloween week, reminds me of that meme in the title of this column, "Whew, what a week! But it's only Wednesday, Captain.
And, in the case of Claudia Sheinbaum, perhaps the saying "a bad start to the week for those who hang on Monday" applies, if we consider all the stumbles, to say the least, that her bumpy start to her six-year term has had in just two months since she took office.
In short, it has been difficult to get through the week and, even more so, to try to be optimistic. However, a little perspective allows us to be cautious with the present and remember that, in the past, there have been times and stories of terror, and times much more difficult and darker than the ones we are going through now. Let us hope that, if only a little, humanity has advanced in what we call civilization.
In any case, we do not have much choice, for let us not forget what, with great wisdom, Cristina Pacheco used to say: "This is where we had to live".
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