The facilitators of a hypothetical madness that tarnishes national sovereignty will not be "the right and its global alliances," but the rulers who did not do their homework. If there is a traitor, it was the one who allowed the cartels to take important parts of Mexico. Instead of "stopping the horror that is being lived," as the Morena senator Higinio Martínez rightly points out, AMLO's government was negligent in the face of the cartels that expanded their control over migrant trafficking. Their negligence will make decent Mexicans, documented or not, suffer in the United States.
In Mexico, in the month and fraction that President Sheinbaum has been in power, there have been eight massacres. Is there no compassion when seeing people coming down from the hill with the coffins of their deceased on their backs? There is the result of what her predecessor did. Yes, she has just taken office and needs time and unity. But instead of holding accountable those responsible for the security disaster, she defends the author of the mismanagement and launches insults at those who think that drug traffickers are terrorists. What are they then? It has been said a thousand times for six years in the media, in Congress, in forums inside and outside the country, in seminars and hearings: the government’s camaraderie with drug traffickers puts national sovereignty at risk.
And now that we have the fire in the gears with Trump’s victory in the United States, the ruling left accuses "the right" of allying with foreign forces to invade Mexico. They did not do their homework; they played at being friends with drug traffickers and are now flailing about trying to blame others. By being negligent or complicit, they put our future in the hands of voters in Arizona, Michigan, or Pennsylvania. Had they fulfilled their duty to dismantle the criminal mafias and provide security for Mexicans, we wouldn’t have to worry about how they voted in Wyoming.
The fake left took tolerance towards criminal groups to the extreme with visits, hugs, taco parties, orders to the Armed Forces to act with kid gloves, and the demagoguery that hitmen are also part of the community. Kid gloves for the cartels that kill in Mexico and traffic poison into the consumer market of the United States and much of the rest of the world. What side did President López Obrador play on in the battlefield that much of Mexico became? Which side was he on? He ordered the families of victims to block the doors of the National Palace with steel fences and accused them of being driven by electoral interests. When pressed about a massacre and the need to change the policy of "hugs" for criminals, the president defended himself by going on the attack: "It is vulture season," he said, referring not to the killers, but to the families of the victims and journalists reporting on the tragedies. He bragged about his familiarity with the drug traffickers after each massacre: I’m going to have to speak with their mothers or grandmothers to tell them to behave, he said.
To the Presidency of the United States came a hawk who has promised to bomb the laboratories where synthetic drugs are made and, according to him, the "nests" where cartel bosses are located. It turns out that is Mexican territory. The two major Mexican cartels are transnational crime corporations, operating like businesses almost all over the world. Since they took office in 2018, they have harassed half of the citizens and even denied the shelter of the flag in the Zócalo to those who think differently than them. They assaulted the Judicial Power (i.e., access to justice) and appropriated the electoral referee (i.e., access to power). They have successfully mocked and promoted the division of Mexicans. Good and wise people? They are the same as the Americans who shoot Mexicans in Texas shopping malls to punish and deter immigration. Terrorists, then.
López Obrador pretended that criminals were fundamentally good guys who were just taking a wrong path. No, sir. They amalgamated in several states. They did not do the homework that was theirs; they favored the destruction of democratic institutions, and today they blame "the right" because "the gringos want to invade us." Two hundred thousand murders in six years. Their disaster damaged the sovereignty of the country and something worse could happen, given the violent and simplistic profile of those who will assume the government of the United States. They made drug traffickers their allies with the fantasy that they could control them, and they were the controlled ones.
