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fortunately, one peaceful and democratic revolution cannot afford the horrendous luxury of proscribing, persecuting, imprisoning or assassinating the exponents of reaction. It is not just an institutional limitation –because it is developed following the rules of the regime it seeks to demolish–, but above all a moral imperative: the aim is not to build a dictatorship, but to build a plural, democratic and respectful social order. from the human rights. Here there is no room, therefore, for judicial or police harassment of any opposition or the burning of institutions.
The foregoing is unlikely for the commentators and leaders who do not tire of accusing alleged murderers, torturers and thieves who occupy or have held positions of power of political persecution – from the still governor of Tamaulipas Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca to the former attorney Jesús Murillo Karam, through the former secretary of Social Development Rosario Robles Berlanga – and they are hoarse day after day warning about the imminence of an economic catastrophe, the close risk of a conflict with the United States and/or the advent of a tyranny or at least a maxima. Their positions do not derive from reflection and analysis, but from propagandistic imperatives and racist and class phobias; It is therefore not worth spending much time explaining to them.
For others, supporters of the Fourth Transformation, what is stated in the first paragraph is exasperating and discouraging: after all, in 2018 society emphatically expressed its mandate to liquidate the old regime, and for more than four years there are too many pieces of this one that remains standing and from which the reaction is entrenched and hinders any change: the autonomous organizations, the legislative minorities, a large part of the courts, the vast majority of the media, state and municipal governments, the abbreviations that are claimed owned by civil society –and that receive generous funding from interest groups opposed to transformation– and even federal government offices that continue to cling to the ways of the oligarchic governments of the PRI and PAN. Wow, even in Morena, the party of the 4T, there are sectors that boycott, consciously or not, the changes promoted by the Presidency and from the base of society, either clinging to old political practices, or brandishing supposedly radical flags.
Certainly, the experience of participating in a revolution with these characteristics is at times uncomfortable and exhausting, like running at the bottom of a pool, where the entire environment presents extraordinary resistance to progress. Many would like to experience a rapid and linear process, without the contradictions, setbacks and ambiguities that characterize all root social transformations, even violent ones. To overcome frustration, it would be worth reviewing what has been achieved in the country between December 2018 and so far in 2022 in the social, political and economic spheres.
The result is huge. Among other things, the oligarchic presidential institution was liquidated, the national budget was reoriented in favor of the majority, new political, social, economic and labor rights have been won, national sovereignty has been fully recovered, hundreds of thousands of of millions of pesos that went down the drain of corruption, the covid-19 pandemic was confronted, progress is being made in the construction of universal public health and education systems, we have come closer to achieving energy sovereignty and self-sufficiency crime rates inherited from the old regime have begun to decline consistently, as have impunity rates, and before the end of the six-year term we will have new trains, a refinery and an airport. Compacted in less than four years, these achievements are unprecedented at any other time in the country’s history.
For the rest, the nostalgic opinion-makers of the neoliberal period insist on scanning the succession of 2024 with dirty and obsolete binoculars. The logic of the old regime –both in its period of PRI presidencies and in its stretch of pretended bipartisanship and false alternation– have ceased to operate. For better and for worse, the political and ideological remnants of the old regime, from the most hypocritical, like Lorenzo Córdova, to the most exorbitant, like Gilberto Lozano, have not been able to build a viable country project that could compete with the 4T , it has a social momentum that does not diminish and, unless the meteorite fell, figuratively or literally speaking, it will endure. With changes and nuances, without a doubt, but it will last. And it will not be by design of an authoritarian and suffocating power like that of the old PRI nor as a consequence of a fraud in the manner of the PRIANbut by verdict of the popular will.
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