Fictions | EC Republic

Danilo Arbilla
Montevideo, Uruguay

The victory in Mexico of Andrés Manuel López Obrador ( AMLO ) caused titles, interpretations and predictions of all sorts, with Surprises not so surprising and not so new.

A lot of fiction and enthusiasm. But reality is something else and it does not submit or accept. It will be necessary to quickly check the elected president, already located on the other side of the counter, which does not amount to making opposition.

"From the opposition", he told me a German "green", the speech has no dams and people are told what they want to hear, what In the end they vote for you and you arrive at the government, and then you have to chew shit and crises and ruptures appear.

For AMLO, the third was defeated. In the previous two, that he lost, he said that there was fraud. In these, who won, it seems no. He thanked the press and the journalists for their work and their honesty. In the past, he had accused them of being accomplices and was part of the "swindle".

Specifically, AMLO must now take control of Mexico

Nicolás Maduro, Evo Morales and Dilma Rousseff celebrated it. They see it as an injection of new sap for the beleaguered progressivism that today shows its "priests" in prison or on the spot, and others have pointed out, denounced and accused of genocide. But Mexico no longer affects both continental and formerly. He lost his leadership. Go back, will it be one of the priorities of AMLO? And will he try it with the Maduro flag, or Ortega or Evo? We will have to see what is really going on in this plan, which is now the least important part of the Mexican program.

Twelve years ago, AMLO was "chavista", but with time, the ball fell to the ground. The same thing with regard to the commercial relationship and the agreements with the United States: before, I repudiated them, but closer to power, their attitude changed.

For Mexico, being "anti-imperialist" is not so easy. Particularly so close and so close, as we have noticed, from the United States. And more right now, with Donald Trump on the other side, where nothing is predictable. Anything can happen there are respectable badysts who point out similarities in the AMLO and Donald behaviors. We do not know if it's good or bad.

This "neighborhood", of course, does not fit into foreign policy, but is an internal problem, both in Mexico and in the United States, but perhaps more so for Mexico. Without a doubt, this is one of the priorities, and Don Andrés Manuel will follow a safe path, will take small steps and it does not seem very credible to do so by sporting the banners of anti-imperialism, Third-worldism, "new orders" and embraces with the embargo and expelled Fidel like that happened in the past.

Because this badumption of the left in Mexico is older, "win" and frivolous than historical truth. The PRI, in which AMLO was initiated, was the Revolutionary Party, that of agrarian reform, the defense of independence and sovereignty and the confrontation with imperialism. Mexico for decades has been a haven and an example for the continental left. Of course, he was defined as "leftist for the outside and fascist for the inside", but that and the corruption of the governments and progressive presidents of the PRI, no one from the universal left n & # 39; did not say anything.

The other big priority is corruption. violence, mafias and drug trafficking. The new president must also take care of that. One hundred and twenty candidates killed in this last campaign – democratic elections but with some tolls, no? – entire cities and states ruled by cartels, drug traffickers and gangsters.

In Colombia the guerrillas and the "narcos" were friends; Chavez Venezuela and its top leaders are accused of being "stuck" in drug trafficking and it has always been said that Fidel Cuba has done tremendous business in this area. But in Mexico, it's different: narcos and mafiosi come from "non-aligned".

López Obrador, who had a very respectful and positive first conversation with Trump, who talks about things that are not so simple or Manichaeists, has set as the first objective the fight against corruption and violence. The same as what they did and announced their predecessors to the presidency.

The problem is to do it, and how to do it, beyond the titles, the interpretations, the forecasts and the first badyzes, enthusiastic and militant. This is not a matter of fiction or opposition. Now it's serious.