Things have changed a lot. To Andrés Manuel López Obrador today, demonstrations like the one at the weekend are, let’s say, uncomfortable and alien. He doesn’t believe in dissent, or at least not legitimate dissent. For the president, any resistance to his will is suspect and he deserves, before tolerance or understanding, frontal combat.
This is how, 48 hours after the marches, López Obrador announced the organization of… a reactive march. Rather than acknowledge the arguments that can encourage a massive claim, the president began a toxic competition, which is rooted in his penchant for polarization. What could have been a dialogue has now become a confrontation, the umpteenth time that something like this has happened during the six-year term of López Obrador.
And there is the president of Mexico today: standing in a ring, far below the height of a statesman like the one he promised to be.
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