Debate and Surveys on succession

 Debate and Surveys on succession

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero

The campaign for the government of Mexico City is underway and the first debate between the candidates has taken place. Despite the unfortunate format in which the Chilango Dialogue took place, it has had the effect of showing the high competitiveness between the contenders. That is to say, despite the diffuse extension of the discursive protocol, there are precise moments where the exchange and controversy of the candidates draws the attention of citizens. Above all, because this stage of convergence of federal and local elections allows us to observe that competitiveness in CDMX is a profound criticism of Claudia Sheinbaum's government style.

Although the campaign period has not reached the halfway point, it is important to note that the inhabitants of the country's capital have a divided opinion about Sheinbaum's management. The competitiveness shown by opinion polls belies the positive management in the government, and this is surely seen by the majority of Mexicans.

The possibility that Santiago Taboada wins the governorship of CDMX leaves the presidential candidate of the Fourth Transformation in a bad position, and that may condition his victory for two reasons. One, because Mexico City is a direct reference for Claudia Sheinbaum's government; The other has to do with the size of its electoral roll, of approximately 7.6 million voters, capable of influencing the federal election.

Claudia Sheinbaum's management in Mexico City should be the reference for Mexicans to make decisions regarding their electoral exercise to define the presidency of the republic. In the immediate past, one of the worst governors in the country – Enrique Peña Nieto – was elevated to the First Judiciary of the Federal Administration and that is how it went for us. Sheinbaum occupies one of the best places in terms of its democratic quality management, public works and security; However, something happens that the gubernatorial elections in the country's capital are more competitive than those of the country and other states. What should be observed in depth in CDMX? Is the good parameters of democratic governance in Chilangolandia due to Sheinbaum or the opposition? Will have to see.

Democratic political culture and the INE

 Democratic political culture and the INE

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero

As in every election, the ways and means in which political actors conduct themselves to monopolize public representation positions are surprising. Processes of usurpation of indigenous and gender identity now abound so that chiefs and oligarchies maintain their power at the expense of the public treasury. Exhibiting the phenomenon is of little use.

Other political and legal analyzes affirm the need for greater bureaucracy to micro-spatially monitor the process. The application of the law is, however, not a valid option in contemporary Mexico.

To obey the law it is necessary to educate in reason and, in weak states like Mexico, due to procedural economy, certain actions that would have a high significant value are abandoned.

Common sense indicates that the INE never had the strength to impose laws and corresponding sanctions. However, the large fines that were imposed on certain occasions and that, however, also ended in waste, also remain for history.

The INE never wanted to promote the effort to apply the draconian system represented by the electoral rules. Not even the national budget would have served to sanction the patrimonialist political leadership. The IFE/INE was complicit in an authoritarian regression that was slowly built. In the end, the imbalance between ideals and means led to succumbing to a form of democratic transition that turned out to be onerous and unproductive. Mexican politics abounds in surrealism and with it an authoritarian populism that has always been a hindrance and atavism is hidden.

Democratic civic culture was an obligation in the development of the IFE/INE, it was never fulfilled. The Electoral Councils sought to be protagonists of the narrative of power and forgot about democratic civility, neutrality and ethics. As referees, they were always biased and subject to political cliques.

Politicians do everything to achieve power and stay there. The electoral process that corresponds to the current six-year term violated all regulations; Strictly speaking, no one should be a candidate and, therefore, all the local horror stories regarding the registration of candidates are peccata minuta.

The reconversion of Morena into the tortilla row pointed out by Weldon and Smith causes the middle class and civil society to lose. The IFE-INE did not and will not comply with the formation of a democratic civic culture.

Impersonating indigenous people, transgender people, women, and even constituencies, is something more than common in the country.

The INE will disappear along with the neoliberal model and we will all once again be colleagues in the sector and party. In the future, the lack of liberal democratic culture in the country will be paid dearly. The middle class and marginalized minorities – such as true indigenous people and non-Mexicans – always lose. It is illogical that the subjects attached to these sectors are referred to as the heroes that the moment requires to safeguard the transition. Liberal democracy has failed miserably in Mexico and the approaching political Darwinism causes orphanhood and absence. The failure of the IFE/INE is followed by the collapse of a legal-political-social approach that developed the electoral system of the last thirty years. Neighborhood and plebeian democracy is what can be seen on the horizon.

Narco Land

Narco Land

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero

A large part of Mexican society seems to disagree with the centrality that emigration and drug trafficking enjoy in the economy and structure of the social order; However, it seems inevitable to begin to recognize this role that they also share with other crimes in the daily environment of our republic.

It is not the first time that the United States intends to expose officials and members of the political class through a drug scandal. The phrase “narco Mexico” is a tautology, and the link between professional politicians or high officials and drug trafficking seems so common that it no longer surprises anyone.

But, if Mexico is a neighbor of the United States, why does the most important democracy - and empire - in the world do little to inhibit the commission of these crimes, specifically drug trafficking? The point is that Mexico and the United States have a complicit and ambiguous relationship regarding both the consumption and transfer of drugs and that long-standing relationship is an open secret. However, by having more resources, the United States has greater responsibility in the task of correcting things. Mexico is not the only supplier of drugs to North America, but it does constitute the main space of territorial approach for different groups, including international ones, dedicated to the transfer of psychotropics, to take on board American consumers. Health, as it applies to addictions, is not important in public policies in the United States; That is to say, although the number of deaths from fentanyl in young North Americans is stated bizarrely, their own country does not have prevention programs, projects or models, drug consumption in North America is increasing disproportionately and only the American government could change it.

Given its military capacity, the United States could take down drug trafficking groups in a jiffy; not only legalize its use so that drug addiction becomes formal and responsible consumption takes place in a controlled and peaceful environment. That is to say, while drugs are legalized in North America, Mexico is experiencing a low-intensity war that every day weakens the formal government and empowers too many cartels and associations. If the White House put the same effort into preventing addictions in American youth, in the same way that it serves the pentagonism; Mexico and North America could reach an optimum on this issue.

Maintaining the route that has been followed until now implies that soon the scenario set by George Friedman for 2080 will be brought forward. In the perspective of this geopolitician, the south of the United States becomes a settlement of criminal groups who, later, will carry out a true invasion and destruction of the Yankee empire. Now, to try to avoid this catastrophic prediction, North America is increasingly increasing actions and evidence that fuel a total war against Mexico, while preventing it from maintaining alliances with other countries dangerous to North American hegemony.

Friedman points out that Mexamerica constitutes the most important fracture zone for North America, greater than the importance of the regions of Russia and China. The United States thinks that Eurasia represents the greatest risk to its future; but not. The real risk is

Mexican knot. Affecting Mexico can cause the destruction of the United States in any sense.

The cartels have indeed moved to the southern border of the United States and the White House government knows who they are. Why don't they capture them? What does it mean to make an agreement with them to showcase the Mexican political class? It is increasingly shown that the State in Mexico lacks the resources to confront drug trafficking and impose order in the various regions of the country. Under these conditions, what is the point of making a public complaint and further weakening the government of our country?

Promoting instability in Mexico only leads to the government being increasingly ineffective in the fight against drugs and narcotics consumption increasing in the United States. In a good neighborly relationship, Mexico would expect greater collaboration and responsibility from the North American government in a situation that significantly harms everyone.

The war on drugs in Mexico depends on help from North America. Media exposures do not fix anything and constitute the classic ping pong game to influence public opinion, meanwhile, American and Mexican youth die in their hundreds due to the drug phenomenon.

The fight against trafficking cartels must be more than strategic and must begin from the American south, where the main centers of drug trafficking operations and finances are developed. The invasion of Mexico by the United States continues to be a valid option and, even, quite necessary. But, as George Friedman points out in his analysis: what if the United States loses the war with Mexico?

The Embassy of Treason

 The Embassy of Treason

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero

Someone who does not know the reality of the United States Embassy in Mexico is something worse than naïve. Information about drug trafficking in Mexico is provided there all the time, anonymously or indirectly through testimonials. Thousands of complaints in a few months can be observed, thousands of data regarding different criminals who operate in our country and move to the United States. Hundreds of facts about businesses, characters, secret activities. What is the North American embassy doing with so much data? Nothing. Although the US government is aware of the links between the Mexican political class and different traffickers – national and international – the US government does nothing to protect its population. From the outside he betrays them. Drug traffickers and their relatives are the first to receive visas. As with terrorism, the closest familiar figures of international fanaticism can enter the United States without much problem. An example? The attacks of September 11, 2001.

How long will Mexican drug trafficking continue to be the lesser evil of United States geopolitics? The US government's attempts to tarnish the image of Mexican rulers are ridiculous. Since the time of General Plutarco Elías Calles, characters like Abelardo Rodríguez were functional to the informal economy of North America. Does anyone remember the strange relationship between Maximino Ávila Camacho and William Jenkins? From the United States Embassy only memoranda come out to assassinate presidents like Francisco I. Madero, Colosio?, Torrijos?, Gaytán, Galán, Villavicencio? If the United States is concerned about the issue of drug trafficking, why doesn't it put an end to drug traffickers inside and outside its country?

Manola Álvarez Sepúlveda's book on the Green Plan shows us the traditional role of the United States in Mexico; In addition to marijuana and all natural resources, they want the soul and essence of Mexicans. Noam Chomsky, Manuel Buendía and Friederich Katz have told us this.

Who is more deluded? The one who considers the cryptic messages from the United States against AMLO to be true or the one who assumes every action by North America against Mexico is imperialism? The United States has always threatened the Mexican rulers with links to drug trafficking and all this only serves to make Carlos Loret de Mola's father write his pornopolitical novels. Everything negative about Mexico is functional for the North American informal economy.

One thing is certain about democratic theory, if Mexico were a democracy, at least like Canada's, the North American Embassy would not be dedicated to sabotaging the governance of our country for the benefit of the United States. But the Yankee Empire is the one that has been most interested in Mexican democracy failing, now and they have always promoted the enemies of society: the technocrats, the INE, the extreme right, the mercenaries, the paramilitaries, the civil society of Miami-Gilmore , a part of the business oligarchy, etc. Why would the United States need another Japan down the Rio Grande, thought Zbigniew Brzezinsky, and Carlos Salinas wanted to make Mexico that Japan!

The attacks on the president of Mexico only confirm the interventionist imperialism and terrorist cynicism of the Yankee Narco-Empire. The United States can end the drug trafficking whenever it wants, the problem - for Mexico - is that it does not want to, that the United States needs all the drugs in the world to maintain the hysterical materialism of its geopolitical economy. Even the United States could advance George Friedman's scenarios to avoid the triumph of Mexican-American narcopolitics within itself; But, he doesn't want it either. Before going to the Moon, Mars or going to the bottom of the earth or sea, the Nazi WASP elite in the United States still requires neo-extractivism to finish accumulating the financial resources for its final survival. Only in a world full of chaos, disasters and shortages, can Mexican-American narcopolitics imagine having geopolitical control. Mexico is the training ground for the final destiny of humanity that the United States has designed.

Only a profound ignorance of the Yankee Empire or enormous mercenary commitments require the defense of its media. History is the field of experimentation of social sciences and it is only known that if divine justice and hell existed, North America would have to be there forever; However, God is PRI and Pro-Yankee. There is no hell where the United States fits. No way. Humanity will have to wait for other deities to appeal to historical justice and final judgment on the United States. Meanwhile, let your embassy and your media continue to betray the American population and violate foreign countries.

The muscle of the extreme right against AMLO

 The muscle of the extreme right against AMLO

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero

The campaign for the presidency of Mexico will not be a sunny day and the middle class constitutes a participatory agent of the streets that can make a pilgrimage to the right

A question echoed in the narrative of various political analysts after the visits of Xóchitl Gálvez and Claudia Sheinbaum with Mario Bergoglio, as well as the March in Defense of Democracy: How many divisions does the Pope have? How strong does the Holy See have?

The electoral campaign in Mexico has begun and the competing groups are beginning to manifest their power.

After the failure of Eduardo Verástegui and the search for the independent candidacy, the Mexican extreme right seems to clear up the accusation of infiltration and make evident the capacity to convene in the configuration of the political class that will occupy the presidency of the republic in the next six-year term.

Although the allegations about a progressive ecofeminist regime remain anecdotal, the truth is that a tandem of businessmen, intellectuals, civil servants, opinion leaders, religious people and various urban middle classes; They are dissatisfied with the “strange” project proposed by the Fourth Transformation in the person of Claudia Sheinbaum.

The call in multiple cities in the country and some important points abroad was no less.

Civil Society, Dresser's middle-class Frodo, is fighting for the institutionality of a dimension of private law, the rationalist autonomy of a part of the public sector, the market and the incursion into the Western world.

The vision of the protesters in the marches called by the extreme right implies the adoption of a civic electoral modernizing path.

When talking about conservative and right-wing groups, this fact constitutes a quantum leap.

Catholic nationalism is shocked by democracy; However, he seems to understand the inevitability of open societies for the survival of all.

The impact of the various pink demonstrations by the INE and Democracy must be acknowledged in Morena.

The campaign for the presidency of Mexico will not be a sunny day and the middle class constitutes a participatory agent of the streets that can make a pilgrimage to the right because the conservative revolutionary nationalism and the pragmatism of Morena, increasingly detaches itself from a Mexican path towards North American modernity.

The middle classes go with the right not only because of aspirationism but because of the Morenoist incomprehension of legitimacy in modern urban times.

Denying the importance of the pink demonstrations and discrediting the clean message of honest actors can reduce the electoral quota that the Fourth Transformation hopes to obtain.

Faced with a scenario of divided government, the understanding of governability must involve the entire country. Mexico is everyone's game.

Xochitl Gálvez and Intermarium

 Xóchitl Gálvez and Intermarium

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero

Foreign contacts are significantly harming his campaign because it harms the internal possibilities of his political work and repeats the mistakes of a pro-American, conservative and oligarchic right.

The Frente Amplio candidate will complete a stage abroad of her political promotion to the presidency of Mexico. Xóchitl's visit to the United States, Spain and the Vatican; It is linked to the devices of anti-communism and anti-Russianism that constituted the North American imperialist geopolitics of the Cold War.

The Frente Amplio has discovered its links with US intelligence and White House financing ready to avert any communist and Russian intervention in Latin America.

However, in the face of the current crisis of neoliberal democracy and globalization, what sense does it make to bet on a strategy that has been emptied of content?

Xóchitl Gálvez has all the social and personal profile to compete against the populist narrative of the Fourth Transformation and Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Foreign contacts are significantly harming her campaign because they undermine the internal possibilities of her political work and repeat the mistakes of a pro-American, conservative and oligarchic right.

It may be understandable that the Frente Amplio seeks the support of the “Deep State” to maintain the imperialist hegemony of the United States; But, in the face of the crisis of globalization and the emergence of nationalism, insisting on the protection of neoliberals and globalists results in fueling contradictions that will mean a considerable decrease in their electoral support.

After the global crisis of Covid-19 and the 2030 Agenda, who wants the United States to remain the global superpower? Even Donald Trump seeks a better understanding of the United States with China and Russia.

Republicans are rethinking the geopolitics of the Cold War because they understand that Western civilization must regenerate its values and find new paths in understanding with the world.

Xóchitl Gálvez's visits abroad harm his political campaign, contradict everything he intends to build in Mexico and bring to light the true interests of the inner circle of FAM XX.

Neoliberalism has failed miserably for everyone, a new stage in world history is approaching that forces us to rethink many things.

Mexico and the United States cannot continue on the traditional course of their relationship without noticing the serious changes in the world.

For almost seventy years, the anti-communism and capitalism of the Intermarium were determining factors in the definition of the Mexican president; but, that has failed.

Mexico's independence regains meaning in a moment of orphanhood in the face of North America.

If Donald Trump wins in the next US elections, neither FAM XX nor Morena will be considered allies by an extremist conservative who will promote more than radical changes for Mexico.

Trump is the real danger for the country and that forces us to look for new geopolitical relationships and protect Mexicanness from a terrifying time that is coming.

2024 and Narcopolitics

 2024 and Narcopolitics

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero

Moises Naim and Carlos Fazio agree that global society is in the middle of a war between factual powers of various kinds. The Cornwall Consensus and the Davos 2030 Agenda constitute timid approaches to restructuring the political sphere in the face of the subjugation of the market that puts the human race on the brink of extinction. Multiple formats of formal and informal economy are dominating all aspects of life; But, nevertheless, the defense of politics and the institutionalization of the State are essential for humanity to survive.

Drug trafficking is one of the main global economic activities. In Mexico it is even considered one of the largest employers, in addition to preventing the marginalization of its members in all aspects. The empowerment of drug trafficking in our country seems to have no limits.

It is undeniable that Mexico is a Narco-Society, but it is at the service of the Narco-Empire called the United States. Mexico has been configured as the Sicily of the United States since World War II because the pentagonist military industrial complex is subsidized by Latin American drug trafficking. The main promoter of the drug economy is the United States.

Ronald Reagan and Oliver North are reproduced in each Mexican six-year term, at each of its levels of government. However, each nation's ability to better address the problem depends on internal strength.

The United States does little, almost nothing, to prevent the transfer of drugs and their consumption in its society. The Yankee empire is capable of bombing a country where some American soldiers were victims of terrorism, but it does nothing against those who poison its youth - by the millions - from within and even from its neighbors.

Mexican drug trafficking cells have migrated to the southern United States and coexist with North American authorities and taxpayers. The White House neither sees them, nor hears them, nor does anything to them; as well as the bizarre ones of Donald Trump, Abbot or Di Santis.

American political processes are marked by drugs more than any other country. What does the United States do when its government agencies handle the movement of drugs in various parts of the world? Nothing, who certifies the United States in its fight against addictions or drug control? Nobody. Thousands of books, reports and scientific reports confirm the evidence of the political links with organized crime of the North American government.

Mexico is experiencing a low-intensity war by the State against the Drug Cartels financed by North America and another one superimposed on the competition for the market by the same protagonists of drug trafficking. How long will the US government and its political class be serious about drugs?