Mexico's Political Transformation: From Promises to Disillusionment

The victory was not won through promises but through the overwhelming display, the propagandistic use of the errors, abuses, and undeniable corruption of the past. This provided the leader with the ammunition to save the nation from the clutches of a rapacious, usurping, dishonest, and decadent political class, proposing the regeneration of public life and a happy, happy, happy future for the Mexican people. The banner that granted him victory, the standard that secured it after repeated defeats and crowned his resolve, was the exploitation of public fatigue, accumulated social frustration, popular dissatisfaction channeled into rejecting the past, and the generation of an expectation of positive change with greater well-being. In its origins, the narrative was successful, and the propaganda was profitable. The extinction of corruption, the abolition of excessive privileges and luxuries of the political class, and, most importantly, social justice and the distribution of wealth without intermediaries constituted the foundation of the entire first-floor transformation. However, sooner rather than later, reality gradually began to conflict with rhetoric. The facts have drowned out the words, and the initial trust has been turning into disbelief and suspicion due to the chain of scandalous events that are added to the political scene daily without assuming responsibility or downplaying the significance of the facts. Despite the robustness of the structure built over the last seven years, its foundations are perceived as vulnerable. Informational missiles are as commonplace as the scandals, showing alternative realities that starkly contrast with the official narrative, particularly regarding the main postulate of the transformative movement: the fight against corruption. But the fire is not only coming from the outside; friendly fire also rages at the base. Internal disagreements are a domestic drag and an antagonism perhaps more decisive than external exposure, as it undermines the very entrails of the organization and exposes, despite the speech that wraps it up, the inherited fragility that carries the penance with the sin. Gradually, the overwhelming solidity, the steamroller built in its early years, the overwhelming political machine is showing signs of vulnerability, not due to the presence of a powerful opposition, which is almost nonexistent, but due to the shameless actions of its own and very prominent figures who wander the political scene without apparent concern, despite the evidence that looms over their image. From saying to doing, a great distance has been left, and that wicked and omnipresent reality operates against the discourse, showing its true face.