By Roberto Remes Tello de Meneses
“What you don’t want, you have to have” goes the saying and last Sunday it was fulfilled and in spades.
For many it has been difficult to live with the slow speech of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, his provocative, cynical style, which gives answers that no one expects and that with the passage of time built a political ecosystem, that is, something that with a certain simplicity many can defend or appropriate. The hatred he provokes in some is his strength, and contrasts with the love he provokes in others.
The Party of the Democratic Revolution had difficult events throughout its first years, when in its resistance against Salinist authoritarianism, national television showed them violent in different parts of the country. The icing on the cake was that its national leader in the late 1990s came from a movement in Tabasco that stood out for the seizure of oil wells.
AMLO’s blackmail made way for him first as president of the PRD, as a candidate for Head of Government without meeting requirements, as a candidate for the Presidency by resisting a violation that could have been resolved with an amparo, but that represented his golden opportunity. What you don’t want you have to have, and Fox was a hair’s breadth away from handing over the country to him.
There began the era of lies. López Obrador clearly lost the 2012 elections, the results were overwhelming: Peña Nieto won with 38.2%, AMLO lost with 31.6% and Josefina Vázquez Mota with 25.4%. Still, the myth of fraud was built. With a closer election, 2006, 254 thousand votes difference, the election could have been annulled. They did not make a good legal argument, but in any case there was nothing to support the triumph of the Workerism.
Already in the Presidency came a six-year period of revenge, of hatred for some and love for others. AMLO wanted to annul his opponents as he always complained that they had annulled him. Every thing he has feared, he has more than nourished. The extreme was to deny us the flag. Refrain from raising it during opposition demonstrations, and at the request of Xóchitl Gálvez he only managed to respond that the flag was even for traitors to the country.
When the flag was raised on the morning of May 19, before the Zócalo was completely full, there were already at least 20 thousand of us who cried with emotion upon knowing that we had dubbed the wren. What you don’t want, you have to have.
A Tabasco legend tells that Andrés Manuel, in his youth, was on the verge of drowning in the Grijalva. When he couldn’t take it anymore, he gave himself to God and the water threw him onto the banks of the river. His resurrection made him feel messianic and invincible. Today, however, he faces the waters again, but this time the waters of democracy dressed in pink.
The Pink Tide is the powerful representation of hundreds of thousands of people throughout the country marching against what the 4T represents: corruption, authoritarianism, repression, privileges, looting, lies, electoral fraud, classism, racism, defense of a few, defense From the past. I quote in the same order that the official candidate said in the third debate.
On the night of June 1, López Obrador will close his eyes and entrust himself to God, but this time he will find that the Pink Tide did what the Grijalva River could not: throw him onto the beach with his soul integrated into his body, letting him know that It is finite, mortal, defeatable… and defeated.
2024-05-22 17:25:26
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