Breathe
By Sofía Guadarrama Collado
Madam President, you can feel satisfied. You have perfectly fulfilled the mandate given to you by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador: to disappear the disappeared. Create your historical truth about the Izaguirre ranch. Invent her post-truth about Teuchitlán. And to tear down the findings of the searching mothers.
Surely, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has already congratulated you and told you that you have done very well by silencing, from your conferences of the people, those neoliberals who criticize you for not taking action since the day the news came out. If Mr. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador did nothing since the September 2024 operation, it was for a simple and straightforward reason: to protect the movement and the second floor of the Fourth Transformation.
Don't pay attention to them, Claudia," the president must have told her on the phone, " it's just a little campaign of the commentocracy, desk bureaucrats whodon't understand the hard work of governing . Desk bureaucrats who do not understand the hard work of governing. What do they know about what a failed state is? They still dare to say that there is a problem of impunity in Mexico, that the passivity of local and federal authorities has strengthened organized crime, that there is an institutional collapse that has transcended from administration to administration, that it is governmental negligence, that you have not been able to fully assume responsibility, that your administration has a failed militarization, that you have not known how to provide support to the victims, that you have only focused on minimizing the case, that your government has failed in the security strategy, only because in Mexico there are more than 124,000 missing persons, 72,100 unidentified bodies and 7,000 clandestine graves, but you do not stop to question why they disappeared. Many of them wanted to disappear, they wanted to abandon their families, they pretend to be disappeared to avoid paying taxes or child support. The ultra-right-wing fachos who only defend Calderón and García Luna, who allied themselves with organized crime, do not see this or do not want to see it.
"In their articles they dare to say that the magnitude of disappearances in Mexico has been exposed. But they rely solely on testimonies of survivors who recount torture, forced recruitment and murders at the hands of the Jalisco Cartel - New Generation. They are only testimonies. That is not evidence. You, Claudita, who are a scientist, know that only scientific evidence can be taken into account. Let's celebrate that we have a scientist sitting in the eagle's chair and not just any mediocre politician at the service of a banana dictator. Take Harfuch to the morning news and have him tell the reporters that this is nothing more than a training camp for a criminal group, and that there they exterminated those who refused to be recruited. Nothing more.
Today many of us are criticizing her -but not attacking her- for trying to hide the hell that was the Izaguirre ranch in Teuchitlán. Yes, the news has already gone around the world. The BBC has described the ranch as a "recruitment and extermination center that confirms the existence of clandestine graves and crematoriums". In EL PAÍS they described the Izaguirre ranch as an "inventory of terror", and mentioned the discovery of more than 1,300 personal objects - such as clothes, shoes, blankets and skeletal remains - found by the collective Guerreros Buscadores de Jalisco.
For you, those of us who write at the national level are nothing more than a handful of commentators. Your followers call it media management and political bashing to discredit your government.
First of all, we are citizens. Mexicans with the right to observe, to inform and comment on each of your actions as an employee of the nation. Do not forget, ma'am. You ran for office. You campaigned with our money, by hook or by crook, to get us to vote for you. You won in a dubious way, and we got crushed; even so, those of us who did not vote for you, put up with it, and moved on, but never with our eyes to the ground, always straight ahead and with our dignity held high.
For those who sell flattery to him, he is a pushover. For lambiscones, there you have your pseudo journalists like Jenaro Villamil, Jesús Ramírez Cuevas, Alberto Nájar, Azul Alzaga, Jonathan Pérez, Lord Molécula, Manuel Pedrero, César Huerta, Vicente Serrano, Sandra Aguilera, Hans Salazar and hundreds more; cheerleaders and bullies willing to sell their souls, their conscience, their dignity and even their children for a few gold coins.
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