The efforts of the president are nullified, because anyone knows that if 50 percent is positive while the other 50 percent is negative, the net result will be zero. Taking the amount at face value, the problem lies in the other half. If we are to weigh what the president does to generate investment, we must concede that she does not miss an opportunity to meet with entrepreneurs, bankers, rating agencies, and business groups, but we must also point out what she does to torpedo her own efforts. While 50 percent of her time is spent updating laws, reducing bureaucracy, launching calls for proposals, defining a Plan Mexico, and verbally guaranteeing a level playing field, the other 50 percent of the presidency, or of her team and movement colleagues, is dedicated to putting up obstacles and sending harmful signals. The most recent of these 50-50 dualities occurred last week. The newspaper El Universal reported on Saturday that the Tax Administration Service (SAT) has been for months putting obstacles in the way of civil society organizations that have long been accredited as part of the search for a better economy and nation. México Evalúa, Mexicanos Primero, and the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness are some of the organizations to which the SAT has been making life difficult for months when it comes to renewing their authorization as donors. This news, reported on Saturday, is read by investors, who are close to the sponsors of such organizations, for what it is: yet another attempt by the 'obradorismo' movement to impoverish the public conversation, to saturate the debate with its 'other data'. So, in the same week that President Sheinbaum attends the annual meeting of bankers, where for the nth time she promises an environment of predictability for investments, it is revealed that this very same month the SAT could cancel several NGOs. A perfect picture of governmental schizophrenia between the two 50 percents. If any more data were needed to underline how the government flagrantly contradicts itself, it is enough to say that, in contrast to the bureaucratic harassment of the SAT against the aforementioned NGOs and others, in the month of February, an association to help Cuba, promoted by López Obrador in his most recent public message, was managed and approved as a donor in a record time. Thus, the good 50 percent for investment promises the rule of law, while the bad 50 percent guarantees that Adán Augusto will not declare before the authority in the La Barredora case, nor stop operating politically. The good 50 percent promises a total fight against money laundering; the bad 50 percent says from the morenista electoral tribunal that it sees no illegality in envelopes with cash for campaigns. The half that strives to bring investments says there will be a level playing field and application of the law, and the rebellious half is dedicated to tolerating 'huachicol' (fuel theft) and contracts for friends of the YSQ family. The inclusion agenda is promoted alongside protection with impunity for deputies like Cuauhtémoc Blanco; and while it is said that freedom of expression will be guaranteed, opponents and journalists are attacked on social networks and in public media. That is the struggle that is lived within the government. 50 percent of her time, someone said there, is dedicated to it. At the annual assembly of partners of the American Chamber of Commerce/Mexico, President Claudia Sheinbaum's efforts to awaken investment were praised.
