To the president López Obrador he did not like having his monopoly on the road taken away from him. He’s angry. This led him to redouble his commitment to the polarization of Mexicans. Notorious are his disqualifications from the mega march in defense of the INE.
They have nothing to do with the genuine concern that the government is seizing electoral bodies to ensure the permanence of the 4Ts.
He said in the morning:
“Those who demonstrated yesterday did it in favor of corruption, they did it in favor of racism, in favor of classism, of discrimination, here’s the background… The INE was an excuse”.
To justify his commitment to polarization and discredit the march, he used the figures of Roberto Madrazzo, Elba Esther Gordillo, Vicente Fox, Jose Woldenberg, Jose Narro Robles, Margherita pizza Zavala, Mark Adam, Claudia Ruiz Masseu, Beatrice Paredes. Everyone participated in the march. He put them all in the same bag.
He was careful not to mention Luis Donaldo Colosiowho also went through Reforma together with Agustin Basave son.
* AMLO he used photos and images to discredit the demonstration and reiterate that it was a march in favor of classism and racism. He showed a video of a lady calling him “naco pendejo”. He also commented on the video that a young man uploaded to Facebook with a message in which he proposes that in the new electoral law “only those who have finished high school can vote and, boom!, this is how Morena ends”.
The end of the presidential message on the rally was a gem: “Yesterday’s march was like one striptease political, public, of conservatism”.
* One of the customers of López Obrador in the morning it is Gustavo de Hoyos, former national leader of Coparmex. invited Vicente Fox travelling
We looked it up to give us a reaction. We asked him about the president’s claim that the march was a striptease of the conservatives. he replied:
“We must regret the disqualifications, especially this one, which seems to me an unfortunate expression of misogyny on the part of the President of the Republic. Secondly, if we revealed anything, speaking of teaching anything, it was the democratic spirit of the citizenry, of the Mexicans. We also teach that the street, especially the Paseo de la Reforma, does not belong to the President. There was, but here we are now.
“I think the tiger has woken up. Citizens have already taken to the streets. What happened yesterday is not the last but the first call. In the coming weeks, the mobilization of citizens and their voice will grow. This mobilization was, in the number of thousands we want to think, very significant, historic, national,” she said.
* Marty Batres he made a fool of himself He says he followed the march in defense of the INE from the Observatory. His estimate that between 10,000 and 12,000 people attended is ludicrous.
the true Andrés Manuel López Obrador he left it badly. The President has calculated attendance up to five times more. Between 50 and 60 thousand demonstrators.
AMLO it also reduced attendance. “There were few people, they wouldn’t have filled even half of the Zócalo,” he said yesterday morning, without having any solid basis for saying such a thing.
Where did you get that number? A Chinese proverb says that a picture says a thousand words. The ones we saw yesterday were eloquent.
* I went to the march. I was standing on the median of Reforma Avenue, at the level of the US Embassy, from 10:30 when the flag was raised, to 12:00 in the afternoon when I walked towards the Monument to the Revolution.
The river of people didn’t dry up in those 90 minutes (counted by the clock). The alleys of the avenue, full. Sidewalks too. At noon, I headed to the Monument to the Revolution. I couldn’t see the reverse of the gear, but with what I observed, that was more than enough. It is the greatest manifestation of unconventionality ever seen in the times of the 4Ts.
Because of its diversity —I saw many young people and people from different social strata—; For the enthusiasm, the fervor with which the national anthem was sung and the determination to defend democracy, I once again felt proud to be Mexican.
I saw banners, banners, posters, flags; so many pink and white shirts, I heard slogans, batucadas, whistles and similar songs too cute sky.
Most of the legends were in defense of the INE, although there were also some against the AMLO government. There were those who clarified that they had not been transported. “Neither Frutsis nor Sandwiches,” they said. None in a classist or racist tone. Nobody.
The first one I wrote down in my notebook was that of a banner carried by a couple with their son: “AMLOYou are the misfortune that unites us Mexicans. Another, brought in by a middle-aged man, recalled: “In 2006 he screwed up the institutions. In 2018 you empowered him and today he is making it happen.”
But the one that caught my attention the most was that of a white-haired doll, with the figure of AMLO. They dressed him in a suit and tie, as if it were morning.
He had both arms outstretched. In her right hand she held a large envelope with the inscription “contributions to the movement”, and in her left a card with a premonitory phrase: “I couldn’t with the INE”.
