They can be found high in the canopy of a tree; even over difficult-to-access cliffs or near a decomposing body, flying in circles at high altitude to locate carrion. They are the commentcratyes, the opponents, those who do not share proposals and ways, those who commit the sin of thinking differently. It’s us, the vultures.
This is what President Claudia Sheinbaum called us in one of her increasingly frequent outbursts of anger. It is understood that her responsibility at the helm of the country is complicated, that making problems slip away is not so easy, it requires the cynicism and perversity of her predecessor, characteristics that fortunately the president does not have. However, confusing the real enemy is not a good idea. Sheinbaum and his team believe they can apply the recipe of blaming an increasingly distant past for everything that happens to them, a well-worn resource.
Vultures do what they can and what they must. The president herself and López Obrador did nothing but go around in circles for two decades, fueling the mistakes of the governments of the time. Naturally it is not a question of flattering his opponents, nor of reaching out to them, nor of making some gesture of political decency towards them, it is clear that this will not happen. But in emergency situations like the one the country is experiencing, particularly Michoacán these days, trying to confuse citizens with demagogic solutions doesn’t work. Citizens know about insecurity, they not only hear about it, but they feel it. And this, you know, is what worries you because there are already many states in an alarm situation.
Inside the vulture there will be those who will celebrate the evident crisis of insecurity that we Mexicans suffer. There are always delusional people and opportunists. Sheinbaum knows this because Morena is full of both. But targeting his opponents, even his detractors, in this way reveals more a lack of control over the issue and a desperation to find a way out than the initiation of a public lawsuit.
It is surprising that the president has no qualifications for criminals. He calls them “criminals” and nothing more. Never murderers, sociopaths, perverted people, monsters, monstrosities of evil that destroy what a working-class city like Uruapan builds. No, for her the insecurity is caused by attacks “from the right” – which if it had the strength to do something like this would not be so tormented – by conservatives who unite to boycott the country’s progress. The Mexican right can have all the defects it wants, but it is not the one that pulls the trigger and kills municipal presidents, destroys the lives of young people and puts the state in check. Those who do this are called assassins and are part of organized crime: they are the criminals, those who extort small and medium-sized businesses, those who torture and dismember bodies, they are the ones who have subjugated entire countries. Criminals continue to have the say and speak with weapons, terror and death, they do not write in newspapers or comment on the radio.
“Vultures, scavengers,” okay. In the end the important thing is that it deals with the criminals, not the critics. When the president asks us if we want the “Calderón war” to return, the answer is: no. What we want to see is what Claudia’s war is. Because she herself talks about “pacifying” Michoacán, and that means an armed conflict or something similar. In any case, it would be better for him to revise the saying because his enemies, the real ones, those who kill and take over the squares throughout the country, are evidently waging war on the government led by him.
Meanwhile, we vultures will continue in the branch that the president has assigned to us, awaiting the specialty of the fourth transformation: carrion, decomposition.
@juanizavala
