▲ The President and the heads of Defense and Navy during the ceremony for the 115 years of the Mexican Revolution.Photo Presidency
Alonso Urrutia and Emir Olivares
La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, November 21, 2025, p. 3
President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo equated the current right-wing opposition with the thinking that prevailed before the Mexican Revolution: “those who today claim a strong hand, force above the law, those who claim the extreme right or that freedom that only the privileged enjoy, do not know the history of Mexico or our people.” In the commemoration of the 115th anniversary of the beginning of that feat, he pointed out that the Porfiriato “is the same one they want to summon now: that of dispossession, silent extermination, that of slavery, that of a silent press.”
In this context, he questioned what he considered a slander campaign against his movement, which has its origin in knowing the honesty of his government. With the controversy still in force due to the violent opposition demonstration on Saturday, she expressed that those who defame her know that there will be no submission to any foreign interest nor will she be a decorative figure or instrument for those who were accustomed to stealing and concentrating political and economic power.
Accompanied by her cabinet, in a new historic celebration with the armed forces as the main protagonists, Sheinbaum highlighted that whoever “calls for violence is wrong. He who encourages hatred is wrong. He who believes that force replaces justice is wrong. He who calls for foreign intervention is wrong. He who calls for it, whoever thinks that by allying with the outside will have strength, is wrong. He who believes that women are weak is wrong. He who believes that the Transformation sleeps, “You are wrong.”
In his vindication of the honesty of his government, he pointed out that for this reason “the campaign of slander and lies” does not make a dent, because the people “know that we are not going to bow down in the face of illegality or injustice. The people of Mexico are stronger because they know that, together, we defend sovereignty, independence and justice.”
Sheinbaum made a long allusion to the origin of the Mexican Revolution and the authoritarian regime of Porfirismo, sustained with repression. Later, he equated the current far-right opposition with that Porfirian thinking, emphasizing that when a people recognizes its history, it defends its conquests. Therefore, “Mexico will not walk backwards again!”
He asserted that justice is achieved only in an environment of peace and tranquility, which is why those speeches that seek to normalize violence as a path or that seek to restore a country of privileges for a few have no effect. “Nothing good can come from those who have made corruption their way of life. Nothing can be expected from some media that use their space for slander, from some commentators who change their minds according to their convenience, nor from the powerful blinded by ambition.”
After recalling the excesses of the Porfiriato, Sheinbaum also called not to forget the recent past with the neoliberal regime that generated poverty, inequality and corruption. In this context, he said that with the arrival of his movement the era of luxuries in power is over, since it is governed with ethics and honesty, saying that “moral authority cannot be bought with all the money in the world, it is built throughout life with coherence and convictions.”
For this reason, he considered that anyone who has the idea that campaigns of slander and lies affect the people is wrong, because currently power is exercised differently. There are no more impositions or privileges, he stated, because there is democracy; freedoms “are not only granted from above; they are exercised from below, from each neighborhood, from each community.”
