As if that were not enough, the administrative and legal front finished closing the siege. More than thirty complaints, amounts that are counted in hundreds of millions of pesos and asset questions that, even without a sentence, generate a devastating perception. Not because they prove guilt, but because They force you to give constant explanations. And in the Senate, explaining is losing.
With this panorama, the embassy appears as a logical move. Not elegant, not heroic, but very rational.
Leaving the Senate reduces the noise immediately. The daily microphones, the uncomfortable questions, the need to react disappear. The character is transferred to a different logic: that of the foreign service, the representation of the country, the institutional agenda. It doesn’t clean up the past, but cool the present.
There is, furthermore, a precedent that no one in power ignores. When Alejandro Gertz Manero left the Attorney General’s Office to assume an embassy in the United Kingdom, the reading was similar: it was not a diplomatic promotion, but a carefully calculated political relocation. At the time, his permanence at the center of public debate was already more costly than useful, and his departure made it possible to depressurize the government without opening a frontal conflict. The parallel is evident: when a figure concentrates too much wear and tear, too much internal resistance and too much uncomfortable attention, the embassy becomes a known formula of the system to remove the obstacle without admitting itcool the crisis and buy time. In politics, sometimes it is not the one who falls who leaves, but the one who gets in the way who stays.
Furthermore, its output rearranges the internal board. Without Adam Augustus in the Senate, his political group loses a visible axis of power, but does not disintegrate. On the contrary: it disperses and becomes more negotiable. The candidates who today shelter under his shadow would have to sit directly with the center of power. This reduces friction, decompresses ambitions and eliminates the feeling that a single current is capturing territories.
