Julio Hernández López: Shipyard

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interviewed by Blanche Petrich in the dayGabriel Boric, president of Chile, pointed out in response to the voices that paint him as a moderate or well-behaved leftist: I believe that the left has the duty to constantly rethink itself and that acting responsibly does not mean being moderate, it implies being responsible, because when we are irresponsible the consequences are always paid by the most vulnerable sectors..

added: From the start you don’t have to trust yourself. One looks at the elections we had in Chile, the ones that took place in Brazil or the situation in Peru and notices that despite the fact that we have rulers where we had a presidential majority, the right or the most conservative sectors continue to be very strong (https://bit.ly/3V79kma).

Boric’s warnings are particularly pertinent in the Mexican reality, until now powerfully governed in the political arena by the project called Fourth Transformation (4T), but, as the electoral calendar of the presidential succession progresses, more and more under wear and tear tasks that they come from their natural opposition (businessmen, high clergy, conventional media, right and extreme right, and displaced political class), but also from their contradictions and insufficiencies, from the exhaustion of the resource of discourse and justification, and the demand for results proportional to the hope generated, especially in the face of sectors of the middle class (the fact that in the country’s capital, historically favorable to the electoral left, in 2021 nine of 16 mayoralties were lost in 2021 must be very present in any serious analysis).

Almost four years after Andrés Manuel López Obrador came to power, it is necessary to apply oneself to the task of rethinking and rethinking, without the early electoral whirlwind trying to postpone the reasoning for the sake of the immediacy of the polls.

The social movement that has reached the National Palace requires, among other issues, criticism and self-criticism, authentic social and partisan organization (Morena has become a mere electoral instrument, a processor of top decisions, a collector of political pieces that should be unacceptable) and an ideological strengthening hitherto neglected.

In the context of this four-year period virtually completed, and of the support march that has been organized for next Sunday, President López Obrador has announced that he considers that the the moment in which we have to theoretically define what we are going to call this thing that we are applying and I am going to say it in the speech, I am going to propose it (…) it is also a very proud definition, because there are many things that we apply in Mexico that do not apply elsewhere.

He advanced that the political model that he has applied “is not, of course, neoliberalism; nor is it – as our adversaries say – populism”. Without giving further clues, he hinted at a factual approach, a preponderance of results: Thought is important, but the most important thing is action, facts not words; let the facts speak.

In addition, he anticipated a nationalist air, anchored in the history of the nation: Why are we going to be extrapolating or importing experiences from other parts? Of course we have to be as universal as we can and as national, of course, but there is a lot of cultural and historical heritage, and that is what we have done, inspired by the best of our history..

It will be seen if this theoretical redefinition of the so-called 4T is profound or responds only to the rhetorical needs of the moment, to the formulation of harangues with a markedly electoral vision.

And, while Marcelo Ebrard unveils his political project for 2024 this Saturday in Morelia, in a charro canvas that is estimated to be attended by some 3,000 people, until next Monday, with Ricardo Monreal knocking on non-Morenista partisan doors in preparation for his sung December exit!

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