Emir Olivares and Alonso Urrutia
Newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, July 19, 2022, p. 3
The project led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will transcend the same as that of Benito Juárez, since it is on the right side of history
asserted the head of the Ministry of the Interior (SG), Adán Augusto López Hernández.
Main speaker at the ceremony with which the federal government commemorated the 150th death anniversary of Benemérito de las Américas, the official made his speech a series of analogies between the juarista era and the current six-year term.
I am sure that the legacy of the transformation that you (López Obrador) lead will withstand the snows of time and will be as indestructible as that of our reforming president.
At the foot of the bronze statue of Juárez, in the first Mariano patio of the National Palace, figures from the Fourth Transformation responded to the call to honor this historical figure, a Zapotec indigenous man born on March 21, 1806, in San Pablo Guelatao, and one of the main referents of the federal president.
Today, the historical movement of the Fourth Transformation drives us towards the right side of history, where the well-being of those who have the least is thought of first in order to build a society that can walk together towards a new, more humane social order.
emphasized the secretary, who to allude to Juárez brought to the scene quotes from Bertolt Brecht, Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, Héctor Pérez Martínez, Alfonso Reyes, Justo Sierra and Carlos Pellicer.
Now our great nation moves with an enormous force that has behind it the unstoppable momentum of millions of Mexican men and women who voted and continue to vote for the transformation of national public life.
he asserted.
In addition to López Hernández, another candidate who accompanied the President on the podium was the head of the Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, as well as her wife, Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller; the municipal president of Guelatao de Juárez, Consuelo Santiago, and the governor of Oaxaca, Alejandro Murat Hinojosa, who previously remarked that Juárez transcends time and borders, and without his legacy, Mexico would have faded.
Notorious was the absence of Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, another of those mentioned as a possible presidential successor.
Special guests were the French ambassadors to Mexico, Jean-Pierre Asvazadourian; from the United States, Ken Salazar, and from Cuba, Marcos Rodríguez Costa, three nations that played a part in national history: the French invasion, US President Abraham Lincoln’s disregard for the empire of Maximilian of Habsburg, and Juarez’s temporary exile in Cuba.
The SG headline continued: Juarez never got tired of fighting
. He was congruent in public and private matters, he fought for a republican government with which monarchies, centralist governments, despotism, tyrannies, oligarchies, plutocracies, dictatorships and other forms of oppression that the Mexican people had suffered could be eradicated
.
The liberal triumph led by the former president overthrew to a megalomaniac dictator
faced the three largest colonial empires in history and defeated the French army, the most powerful in the world at the time.
It is clear that it has never been easy to confront those who yearn for a corrupt past, those who thrived on the public budget and those who put their group interests, privileges and benefits above those of the equitable development of a nation.
he underlined.
The secretary noted that on July 18, 1872 a man died. But through time his ideals remain alive. Which are the same ones that the president (López Obrador) upholds when vindicating the liberal ideology, when fighting relentlessly against the force that opposes the creation of a new social, political and economic order that banishes bad practices and the negative effects that they brought with them the colony at the time and today the heritage of more than 30 years of neoliberalism
.
