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trying to To understand the opposition’s maddened reaction to the results obtained by the coalition of the Morena, Labor and Green parties on June 2, it is obvious that they have lost the little sanity they may have had, and they do not recognize that they launched themselves as adventurers and therefore incapable of providing solutions. This explains why they state, without the slightest blush, that it has been a coup d’état
which was a robbery
that There was fraud
And the crudest thing is the story of overrepresentation, saying that It was done before according to the laws, but it was a mistake
(Lorenzo, said), therefore, it is illegal for them to be distributed according to the law now.” What nonsense! Okay, they were given a real beating, and that hurts the soul, but what is really dangerous is that they ask for the interference of foreign governments. That is why Ken Salazar, the United States ambassador, came out and dared to point out that judicial reform
proposed by the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador could put Mexican democracy at risk as well as the economic integration of North America
And the Canadian ambassador, Graeme Clark, also left. This gives more meaning to the extraordinary response to the last election in which Claudia Sheinbaum will not only be the first female president of Mexico, but the package of reforms that will be implemented points towards the consolidation of a new project for the country that, if achieved, will lead to a change of regime.
A fundamental area is to promote human well-being, for which the State will have to recover the dynamics that neoliberalism practically dynamited: continue expanding social policies, which have already been initiated and with great results by reducing poverty by 5 million people; support for workers, which means eliminating the disastrous labor reform of 2012 that made them precarious with the application of flexibilization and deregulation processes, with the law of free dismissal, due to labor contracts that broke job stability; the 100 percent pensions that were reduced to 40 percent for 45 million workers; it must be recognized that in this six-year term the 100 percent pension was finally eliminated. outsourcing which made the illegal legal (as Manuel Fuentes says). We must seek, by all means, to recover joint responsibility and make the 40-hour work week a reality, among other policies. We must remember that the labour policy of neoliberalism was clearly an offensive against work.
It is not strange that none other than the Council of Global Companies, representing 60 multinational companies in Mexico, spoke out against it and issued a statement stating: their concern about the risk to investment that the judicial reform project of the president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum, may pose
. Other businessmen, investors and rating agencies, such as Morgan Stanley, downgraded Mexico’s rating and reduced its recommendations, and Fitch Ratings, while maintaining its rating, notes that Mexico’s reforms would negatively affect the country’s profile; others noted that It would undermine trilateral talks already underway on the USMCA in 2026, and international agreements such as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum.
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These observations show that those who oppose the possibility of changes in economic relations are those who have benefited from them, including multinationals, precisely the heart of the neoliberal model. Therefore, in order to build a new national project and overcome neoliberalism, the conditions agreed upon in the treaties must be reviewed.
Researcher Manuel Perez Rocha ( The Day, 20/5/24) analyzes in detail the conflicts arising from these free trade agreements. Above all, it emphasizes the transnational power due to the investment protection regime
. He points out that all the lawsuits start from international investment treaties and go to international arbitration courts and states (ISDS, for its acronym in English). He highlights that Mexico is a party to 31 bilateral investment treaties (BIT) and 11 free trade agreements (FTA). With 53 lawsuits against it, Mexico is the fourth most sued country in the world (after Venezuela, Argentina and Spain). It has lost 11 cases and has been forced to pay 296 million dollars. What’s more, there are 23 pending lawsuits, through which investors are demanding the outrageous sum of at least 13,323 million dollars. For all this, he highlights, the review of the T-MEC for 2026 must be the opportunity to completely dismantle the ISDS system, Pérez Rocha tells us.
It is clear that the right wants to continue with a country tied to neoliberalism because it has been extraordinarily favored, but at the cost of the inequality of the country’s majorities, who showed with total force on June 2 that this path must be reversed. It will not be an easy path nor without problems, but the decision has been made.
