The ruling party, under different pressures, blackmail and tricks, managed to bend opposition legislators to get the votes. Two women who gave lectures in the plenary session and asserted their word and consistency, and courageously faced power, were Senators Claudia Ruiz Massieu and Beatriz Paredes, who together with their coordinator Osorio Chong voted against it.
Ruiz Massieu delivered a firm speech that left the Morenista majority speechless, because not only did he reject, with arguments and figures in hand, why the term of the National Guard in the streets should not be extended, but he gave them strong doses of moral authority . True to his impeccable ways, he combined the story with the truth and outlined on his face the mistake they were about to make.
Such was the sharpness of his words, that Morena’s bench displayed their annoyance and desperation. Félix Salgado Macedonio attacked the senator and made mean comments about her family.
There is no doubt that when the arguments end, the disqualifications prevail. But the senator forgets that profanities and disqualifications do not aggravate the person who insults them, but rather describe the person who says them.
Great processes of change are coming that will reveal true identities and interests. For the good of the country, the opposition must continue to curb the excesses and abuses of presidential power. Congratulations to Claudia and the legislators who voted as their reason dictated.
Last Tuesday he won over locals and strangers in the emblematic auditorium for the PRI, Plutarco Elías Calles; the loudest applause was when he said: Mexico wants an opposition that doesn’t sell out or bend. Just like when he said that militarization is not the solution. Quihúboles…!, just as you are reading it.
