Without breaking, practices of the old regime, they say in conversation

Jessica Xanthomilla

Newspaper La Jornada
Friday April 1, 2022, p. 8

Three years into the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, many of the practices of the old regime have not been broken, entrenched by corruption, impunity and machismoactivists and researchers agreed. In a conversation organized by the German political foundation Heinrich Böll, Yésica Sánchez Maya, director of the Consortium for Parliamentary Dialogue and Oaxaca Equity, acknowledged that López Obrador became President because it was necessary to set a limit to much of what was happening, such as the disappearance of the 43 normalistas, in 2014. For his part, Luis Daniel Vázquez Valencia, a UNAM researcher, said: what we hoped would happen with the alternation is that this pact of impunity and silence would be broken, but it has not been achieved.