Alejandro Armenta and the Morena crisis in Puebla
Diego Martin Velázquez Caballero
Even when Marinism seemed to disappear in the face of the rise of the leadership of Rafael Moreno Valle, it was preserved as a current political tendency for the triumph of Miguel Barbosa Huerta in the extraordinary elections and, probably, in the designation of a candidate as, as it seems to represent Alexander Armenta.
Alejandro Armenta saw his political career bear fruit by sticking to and defending the political group of Mario Marín, who sought to develop a career in search of the presidency of the republic. The scandal of the Lidia Cacho case exposed the structures and mechanics of an oligarchic and corrupt power that has not been able to banish itself from the state of Puebla.
The economic, social and electoral support of Marinism was singular for the support of the interim government, as well as for Morena to triumph in the elections against Enrique Cárdenas and Alejandro Armenta, as operator and architect of Mario Marín, Javier López Zavala and Valentín Meneses. , generated the consensus that made the traditional “green vote” work, which was imposed against Acción Nacional and legitimized barbosismo.
Almost immediately, Miguel Barbosa tried to distance himself from the authoritarian and corrupt vision of the Marinista group, which was already beginning to be a burden for the state government. Armenta himself starred in conflicts that revealed the dark side of Marinism to displace Barbosa from the Executive Branch. Despite this and other contemporaneous contempt for Marinism with Barbosa, it seems that Senator Armenta represents the way for Barbosismo and its social bases to build a political process capable of confronting Bartlismo and the still surviving PRIANRD coalition.
Marinism is in force in the figure of Alejandro Armenta and willing to generate a mechanics of cacique, migrant, business and PRI alliances so that the regional power of the historic priismo of Puebla is preserved. For its part, the National Regeneration party has failed to generate an efficient institutional architecture and the cost has been the storm of its internal state and national processes, as well as the lack of authentic candidates committed to the Fourth Transformation to succeed the government in power. the state of Puebla.
The scarcity of lopezobradorismo in Puebla has allowed the will and fortune of the regional chieftainships -such as Marinismo- to prevail and demonstrate their political craft against an incompetent leftist government and the local democratic transition.
Morena's conflicts in Puebla destroy the possibility of the permanence of progressivism in the entity and reveal the appetite of the opposition factions and parties to reach the governorship again. Puebla continues with an interrupted political transition and an authoritarian structure worthy of the old regime, as the aspiration of the Morenista more Marinista supposes.