Breathe
By Rosario Robles
I am not writing this article thinking of the persecution to which I have been subjected. Of the fury, fear and revenge that encouraged the decision to deprive me of my freedom. On this occasion, I am writing it about the disqualifications that were launched from your powerful tribune against the man who, to a great extent (I would say to a great extent), was decisive in your destiny, and for you to reach the presidency of the Republic.
I wish I could say this looking you in the eyes, I know it would be different. But since this is not possible, I do it from here, from this space that generous women have provided me with, because what you said about Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas seems to me to be infinitely cruel, forgetful and disloyal.
That you speak of him as a "conservative" (of course with the idea of the moderate wing), that you say that these are moments of definition and that there are only two kinds of soup: to be with the people (that is, with you) or against you, that you consider him your adversary, seems to me totally distant from the feelings that should always accompany a statesman: gratitude and consideration for a person who is the founder of the great movement that opened the breach, that patiently hit the wall until it cracked . Who did it when life was at stake (more than 500 dead were left along the way), when there were no clean elections and the government was organizing them, when the system collapsed (in the hands of your CFE director) in 1988.
Yes, the one who founded the party (PRD) that served as your platform, the one who pushed you to become its president and then head of government. It was Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas who gave that fight, who led millions of us to fight for the votes to be counted and counted well, who won the capital city twice (first as a presidential candidate when you were still in the PRI), and then as the first head of government elected by popular vote in this great city. You insulted the man who has never hesitated to be on the side of the causes of the people, of the left, of the people (as you call him), but who has also exercised his moral authority to discern, to ventilate, to express his opinions always within the framework of the debate of ideas, never in the disqualification or denigration of those who thought or think differently than him.
Some may think that these lines are to be expected: Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas trusted me to give continuity to the project he started in the capital in 1997 and gave me the enormous responsibility of demonstrating that a woman can govern (without hiding in someone else's pants every time there was a problem). I owe a lot to the Engineer. And I have and will always have an enormous gratitude to him. An insult could never come out of my mouth and much less consider him my adversary, even though, at times, we have been in different trenches. I have also had differences with him and some of them have been related, by the way, to your person. That is why as a Mexican, as a woman, as a democrat, I cannot on this occasion let your words pass.
Much less can I remain silent before someone whose participation in 1988 was not relevant, nor in the founding of the PRD, nor in the pitched battle that we feminists fought, nor in the struggle to win Mexico City for the first time, nor in the one we won with you, and who became known after his appearance in your cabinet and who now, under your shelter, believes he can insult and disqualify because he has not learned that words count.
Your questioning of one of the most respected politicians in Mexico, in Latin America and in the entire world is unacceptable. Those of us who know CCS know that he will not remain in the Mexicolectivo not for your reasons, but for his own. Not because of what you said but because of what he thought was the most convenient. Now you are disowning yourself under the argument that you were not well informed, but, even if he decided to participate in any movement alien to your ideas, it is not a sufficient reason for your ingratitude and harshness.
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