Accusation: distractor or intimidation?
Consulted in particular on the subject, the historian José Antonio Crespo considers that the FIU’s investigations go beyond being a “mere distractor” to divert attention from the problems of the moment, because in reality a form of pressure against the former president to to support Morena in the Mexican election.
“I think it’s a way of saying: help us so that Morena wins because if not, this is pending here. That is to say, a form of intimidation and also, incidentally, take advantage of it to make noise and present that corruption is being fought, even if it does not go to the bottom, ”she highlights.
And it is that according to Crespo, political will is required to get to the bottom of these cases, because “it would imply applying a sentence, the one corresponding to Peña Nieto, which would be a very important precedent because a former president has never been in jail , but I don’t think it will get that far,” he says.
He explains that in the event that there is an impunity pact between López Obrador and Peña Nieto, it can be broken due to the Mexican dispute.
“Yes, I think that impunity pacts can be broken, of course. There is no guarantee that they will be met, but I don’t think they will reach that level”, she warns.
It is, he adds, “a political use, a media use for López Obrador to gain legitimacy and I do not know if to force or exhort Peña to help him in the State of Mexico. That is, so that he sells the plaza as has already happened in Sonora, Sinaloa, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, ”he states.
