AMLO: the exercise of power without the participation of the people “went to hell”

Arturo Sanchez Jimenez

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The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, September 15, 2024, p. 5

Palenque, Chis., The exercise of power without the participation of the people It’s already gone to helldeclared yesterday President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who said that at the close of his government Now there is a real democracy: the one who rules in Mexico is the people.

Accompanied by the president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, he said that he is proud to have led a transformation movement in which millions of Mexicans participated, but reiterated that in just over two weeks he will be another resident of Palenque because he must retire, hit the brakes to their public life and take care of their health.

The engine is fine, but the body is no longer running well. I close the cycle. Above all, I have a problem with a heart disease because I had a heart attack and I can no longer force my poor heart any more.said the president in a ceremony held at the Palenque station of the Mayan Train, where he commemorated the 200 years of the incorporation of Chiapas into Mexico and inaugurated an ISSSTE hospital, the facilities of the National Polytechnic Institute in this town and the “Alberto Ruz L’Huillier” site museum in Palenque.

He said that two of the things he takes away from his administration are that he has managed to make economic growth in the southeast of the country surpass that of the north and that for the first time in decades poverty and inequality have been reduced in Mexico.

How could I not be happy if it was 50 years of struggle, go on and on throughout the country?he said, and addressing Sheinbaum Pardo added: I’m going to pass the burden on to you. But it’s the best of the best and chanted along with the audience: president, president.

He asked the people of Palenque not to go looking for him at his farm when he moves. “I am going to retire and come to live here in Palenque. I want us to make an agreement, a commitment, nothing like ‘hey, Andrés Manuel, I want to talk to you, I brought this matter here’. I will not be able to take care of it anymore and also, cousin, if I open the door to you, I will have to open it to millions of Mexicans. I have finished my cycle,” said the Tabasco native.

Sheinbaum celebrated that two days ago the state Congress ratified the reform to the Judicial Branch and she is confident that the constitutional amendment that will recognize indigenous peoples will also be approved soon.

He said that two centuries ago the people of Chiapas decided to join Mexico, but that since the Porfiriato the state was condemned to be the poorest and most abandoned in the country. Today we are in Palenque to reiterate that this is a thing of the past.he said, because he said that during the government of López Obrador the message of the poor first It was heard loudly in the region.

It was written in its destiny 200 years ago that the time would come when Chiapas would never again be the lasthe added and reiterated his commitment that the Fourth Transformation will continue in the country.

Governor Rutilio Escandón, who was greeted with applause by a section of those attending the ceremony while others booed him, said that for decades Chiapas was seen as a marginal state, but that with the public policies of the 4T it has become a driving force of national development. We ratify the desire to live in the grace of peace and brotherhood among Mexicanshe declared.

At the end of the ceremony, López Obrador, Sheinbaum and their entourage boarded the Mayan Train bound for Calakmul, where they will inaugurate a museum in the archaeological zone today.