yes
í, with democracy and social justice
* would have sufficed. But there was never the slightest intention of respecting it and social justice was made an electoral instrument. Conveniently founded by President Elías Calles, he was the first to prostitute it. The wisdom of the decision was not an act of political altruism, it was just tightening the straps.
The creation of the National Revolutionary Party (PNR) had the shrewd intention of giving urgent spaces to the survivors of the revolution and Obregón’s mourners who were increasingly a danger.
Calles wrapped himself in a small group of politicians for the organization work. It would be headed by Calles himself, Luis León, Manuel Pérez Treviño, Gonzalo N. Santos, Emilio Portes Gil, José Manuel Puig Casauranc, Manlio Fabio Altamirano, David Orozco and Aarón Sáenz, who produced its statutes of intelligent socialist inspiration.
As a result, it would have to be given the shape of an umbrella through a corporatism that worked effectively as a formula. Its elements were simple: I control my sector, but you (Executive Power) cover my share of the cake. Expectations should be given and distributed to all: workers, peasants, popular classes and the military sector. Let no one be left out! From there came Gonzalo N. Santos, Rubén Figueroa and the gorgeous gober.
This is how part of the philanthropic ogre described by Octavio Paz was created. All this without an enemy in front. The Communist Party with its attractive ideology was outside the law, the PAN with great members was not an electoral enemy. The rule was: dissidents are bought or punished.
Virtuous things are also due to that organic formulation and creativity: Bank of Mexico, oil expropriation, agrarian distribution, IMSS, Infonavit, universities and technology, internationally respected foreign policy. Some became extinct giving the contribution that was presumed, countless others are still proud.
Party leaders, officials and simple militants are present in this framework of comments, joined by a mystique of service to the party, certain that they were thus serving the country. Each time they are less or mean nothing. Ambition, sectarianism, opportunism and its natural daughter: corruption triumphed.
There would be 100 explanations about the PRI at this time, the product of years of absolute power, conservatism, few capable leaders and aware of what is future. Add what was fatal to him: they did not know how to manage his orphanhood. By losing the Presidency he lost the factotum, the desideratum, the infallible guide and the inexhaustible public finances.
To understand the reason for the loss of parliamentary majority in 1997 ( the steamroller) and worse still of the loss of the Presidency in 2000, any explanation is insufficient, although together they can be personified in wingthat disastrous icon of everything disgusting that the party produced in its decline.
Given the circumstances of today and the upcoming July 2024, it seems that there is no way out for the tricolor, and worse, it can not stay as it is. It is in a real well. These are stressful times and the party does not know how to meditate. Its organ of thought, the Colosio Foundation, was unable to achieve its mission. The dome did not believe in her and did not consider her at all.
Democracy and social justice. Yes, that would have been enough giving the reformulations and programs that time requires. But no, step by step the art of appearing was adopted in order to prosper, to achieve positions and privileges. There have been many truly progressive and honest partisans who have rejected it, but authoritarianism and its lubricant, corruption, triumphed over them.
Those migrants found ways: some honestly believed it was possible that it was within the PRI itself, Manuel Bartlett made it impossible. Others took refuge in new institutions, some comparsas soon disappeared. Others seem to live a spring, but what about the revolutionary?, as they still call him.
The country and its political system have experienced a long coexistence that was not born with the PNR. In May 1920 it was inaugurated with the assassination of Carranza manned by Obregón, followed by his presidential election in September. He was elected through a round in the shade just three months after the assassination. Unusual: won without an opponent! An overwhelming vote was given away in an isolated country, with an infrastructure devastated by 10 years of war. That was the real birth of the system 102 years ago.
The foregoing invites us to recognize that this phase of our democracy, now 20 years old, is just beginning. The desired advent, times of grace, will not come easily or soon, but it is on the way.
His current fast is leaders who are both brilliant and honest. Fasting includes hopeful ideas that drive away that wind of desolation. This cradled in fresh institutions where the PRI with its classic profile would not find redemption. Democracy and social justice. Yes, that would have been enough.
*Original party slogan.
