The defeat of Bartlismo in Puebla

The defeat of Bartlismo in Puebla

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero

Political transfugismo has undermined the structure of political parties to promote factionalism and cliques as protagonists of the dispute for power. In Puebla, this phenomenon has characterized the electoral alternations and realignments from the Auxiliary Boards to the Executive Power. Factionalism was regularized by the existence of the Official Party (PRI), as soon as its institutionalization and cohesion weakened, personalisms resurfaced and began to recover their influence and hegemony to the detriment not only of the State Party but of government and social institutions.

Avilacamachismo has become one of the preponderant factionalisms in the entity, it is configured as a cacicazgo but it is also a social muégano that involves people, communities, intermediate bodies, educational and religious systems as well as public entities. During PRIATO's trajectory, presidents Adolfo Ruiz Cortínez, Luis Echeverría and Carlos Salinas de Gortari were opposed to the avilacamachista cacique interests by conscience or circumstance. Bartlismo is produced from these conditions, perhaps a clique that could be configured as an opposition bloc to Avilacamachismo given that it achieved government control on two occasions and was outlined as the way through which MORENA could retain ownership of the state executive power. Things have changed and the succession in Puebla is conditioned by the processes that Avilacamachismo is experiencing.

Rafael Moreno Valle tried to establish a Neoavilacamachismo that, linked to the Atlacomulco Group, would rise as a national faction: the Morenovallismo. The elevation was so high that the fall was terrible, but in Puebla the avilacamachista moorings remained solid and Bartlismo has not been able to weaken them, much less break them. Lopezobradorismo, like Cardenismo, has preferred pragmatic coexistence instead of confrontation and this leaves Bartlismo and Morena in the orphanage.

Moreno Valle sought a factionalist emancipation that resulted in conflicts for the Avilacamachismo, the Atlacomulco Group and the PAN against the succession of 2018. Even the Lopezobradorismo considered the alternation in Puebla through the split of the avilacamachistas, the confrontation with the morenovallistas was total and Finally, Morena reached the state government with the connivance of some avilacamachistas and even morenovallistas. Hence, the succession in Puebla follows this canon while Bartlismo and other morenista groups operate in a weakened and ineffective way. Raymundo García García considered Bartlism, in its marine dimension, as a "diminished, parochial, pedestrian, porril, cacique elite, without vision regarding public administration and modernization." There are many similarities with the avilacamachistas, although for some, there are also significant differences. The truth is that in the face of Bart's lack of power, certain followers still preferred integration with the avilacamachismos modernized by morenovallismo. The Bartlismo that was represented with the presidential superdelegation resulted in looting, abuse and inefficiency. The Federal Delegation was the great lost opportunity not only of Bartlism but also of the Fourth Transformation.

Avilacamachismo takes control in Puebla under the consent of Lopezobradorismo, as in the times of General Lázaro Cárdenas. The avilamachista vertex is now represented by the far-right mayor of the capital who, despite the presidential criticism, should not be forgotten that it was the first perspective considered by Morena to confront morenovallismo. The PRIANRD under the route of pragmatic multiparty alliances, as well as a deeply divided Morena party with no preponderant factions in sight, constitutes the ideal path for the Avilacamachista Family -of which the state government is also a part- to remain in the control of the entity.

The dark shadow of Lopezobradorismo, as well as the dark shadow of Cardenismo, makes Puebla one of the most backward states in the country. Social indicators never improve significantly. The cacicazgo is maintained through the provost of other regional, administrative and corporate caciquisms that enjoy full health within the state, the public administration and other social bodies.

What changes in Puebla are the indicators of anomies and pathologies, each six-year period they increase for the benefit of the avilacamachista muégano.

Image 1. Avilacamachismo 

Source.  Pansters, W. G. (1998) Política y poder en Puebla. Formación y ocaso del cacicazgo avilacamachista, 1937-1987. México, D.F. y Puebla: Fondo de Cultura Económica y Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla

García Luna, Bartlett and tough times

 García Luna, Bartlett and tough times

Diego Martin Velázquez Caballero

Although several journalists and intellectuals speak of the decline of Mario Vargas Llosa, it is enough to read some of his novels and articles to understand the importance that he has - and will have - as one of the main Latin American thinkers. Perhaps for this reason, Juan Carlos Monedero urgently requests the socialization of his works. Vargas Llosa's literature continues to be the best political science to understand us.

The author's recent novel that makes reference to the coup d'état articulated by the United States in Guatemala against General Jacobo Arbenz gives rise to a perspective on imperialist interventionism on the Ibero-American left and right. Each governmental period, whether or not it has partisan alternations, the question always lies in synchronizing with North American capitalist interests. The Hispanic-Latino government that does not subjugate itself to the oligarchic machinery of Yankee imperialism will be harassed - in the most brutal way possible - until it complies with the demands of the United Fruit Company or is overthrown. With everything and that a fact does little to confirm theories, the idea of ​​US imperialist geopolitics repeated in all times and places in Latin America is absolute.

The American conspiracy against Guatemalan democracy always occurs where there is a United States embassy. Therefore, there should be no surprise about the García Luna case and the war against drug trafficking in our country, the same questions that are asked of former presidents -particularly Calderón Hinojosa- can be asked in different periods of national history, past and present. present. Is there a difference between the tasks that García Luna and Manuel Bartlett performed under the national security scheme in the service of the United States? Is there a difference between the counterinsurgent forces and the drug cartels used in Yankee geopolitics? Has the CIA changed your view of Latin America? The governments employed by North American imperialism are always going to wage wars against their people, even a government like the one in Q4 that has not known how to detach itself - and has no possibility whatsoever - of North American tutelage. Why were there and are there characters like García Luna and Manuel Bartlett in Mexico? Because that is the way the United States wants it and there is little that can be done to prevent it. Be it the Cold War, the Dirty War, the War against Drug Trafficking, it is always a war against the people so that, despite the deficit of the North American economy, the situation allows them to continue being a superpower.

George Friedman envisions a war between Mexico and the United States in 2080 due to drug trafficking, but North America's secret war against our country has always existed and if the conflict increases, it will not be for the geopolitical reasons that said author supposes. If remittances and drug trafficking served to strengthen the economic and military sector of the country, society, at least, would have left the marginality so wide that distinguishes it a long time ago. The narco-empire is the United States, there are the stratospheric profits from criminal activities, we only put the dead. It has always been like this. The conflict will occur because the mafia cartels and millions of immigrants are in the United States and have been empowered enough to prevent being drawn out of the imperialist economic dynamics. That conflict has originated the disruptive policy of Donald Trump that talks about invading Mexico or putting up Walls, over time he will discover that the 250 thousand soldiers or the walls must be implanted in California, Texas, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona or Florida. The United States has caught the Failed State that it has implemented so much everywhere.

Unfortunately, the decline of the United States has not served to leave the script of hard times. The media terrorism, the gringo financing for all the political forces and organized crime groups, the lack of national unity, the inconsistency of a political and governmental project, are indicative that we were, are and will be, the North American Sicily that will provide the millions of deaths that are necessary to continue thanking remittances.

America's irrational capitalism and racism is not going to change. They are the postmodern Nazis that the world must intelligently face to solve the dilemma of coexistence. Either we understand how right Ernesto Guevara was when he demanded missiles in revolutionary Cuba or we promote the North American civil war so that a new socio-political liberalism may emerge. With Monedero I say, well, you have to read more Mario Vargas Llosa.