Candidates, two fruits of the same bouquet: Alberto Vizcarra Ozuna

Alberto Vizcarra Ozuna

ANDIn recent days, a parodied depiction of debates between Xochitl Galvez And Claudia Sheinbaum. Xochitl is depicted demonstrating her extroverted and absent-minded personality; with his smile, which, if presented as spontaneous, turns out to be superficial. Sheinbaum appears with a frozen face, like the person who was forced out in fulfillment of the slogan. One could say that the parody is bad because it borrows too many real elements of the candidates’ personalities.

Parody is equivalent to caricature, but in this case real characters behave cartoonishly; This is already a parody.

They walk on the borders of the pathetic because they have chosen to model their campaigns as electoral options whose speeches do not cross the boundaries of macroeconomic policy governed by neoliberal orthodoxy.

Political personalities appear deformed when they decide to turn their backs on reality, not paying attention to discussion of the decision the structural problems plaguing the country; On the contrary, they are subject to the implementation of programs determined by financial elites and private corporations that have turned their economic model into a “reality of power” in an unshakable state. Once candidates agree to this, They become two fruits of one bunch.

In a brief overview of the speeches of the candidates who will formally begin their election campaign in early March, we can highlight convergence in the major macroeconomic policies that have governed the country for more than three decades. Their differences are limited to the trading of dirt with accusations of corruption, but they are united in their submission to doctrinal canons that hamper the country’s economic growth, generate rising unemployment and widespread informality that reduces the productivity of the national economy. an economy at a contingency level spanning a full generational cycle that led to the departure of millions of Mexicans to the United States as economic refugees; in addition to increasing food dependency, which has increased again in the current six-year period. Thus, these are balances, pure and simple, resulting from the trading scheme created on the basis of NAFTA-TMEC.

If we take into account the three pillars that serve as a platform for the functioning and growth of an economy, they are water, energy and food, and comparing the rhetoric of the candidates on this score, we discover not so much a successful coincidence, but rather an unfortunate coincidence. Both Xochitl and Sheinbaum say Mexico must align with the global trend toward an energy transition by prioritizing the production of “clean energy,” especially solar and wind. They seem to be blind to the consequences of these policies, which, hidden in a crooked approach to environmental protection, are destroying the economies of Europe, especially Germany, which is suffering from accelerated deindustrialization and an unprecedented energy crisis as a result of its compliance with this “global trend.” ”, which deprived them of high-density energy sources, mainly nuclear energy.

The social revolt of agricultural producers, transport workers, trade union organizations and other productive sectors that is being recorded in Europe is evidence that the population will not accept the fact that their social and productive life is disappearing because their governments have submitted to the fashion of they called it “green economy”.

Disappearing production processes and punishing food production to reduce population is not ecology; This is closer to genocide.

The candidates also disagree on food policy. They are united by the idea that the nation’s food production must continue to be hijacked by the international speculative markets that determine grain prices on the Chicago Stock Exchange. They continue to think that the country must continue to solve its gigantic food deficit through increasing grain imports, while our irrigation areas end up being subcontracted to wholesale corporations that determine volumes and prices in the export market.

They demonstrate complete similarities in water policy. They appear to be members of CONAGUA’s permanent bureaucracy. and they accept the false axiom of human consumption versus agricultural consumption, and in this distorted logic they forget that consuming food also means consuming water. This is what unites them in the idea that resource management policy comes down to possible improvements in the management of available water when there is overwhelming evidence and research showing that there is a physical shortage of vital fluid availability in the country that cannot be solved without an aggressive infrastructure program. associated with large water transfer projects such as North-West Hydraulic Plan (PLHINO), on the Pacific coast and North Bay Hydraulic Plan (PLHIGON), on the Gulf Coast, in addition to vigorous efforts to desalinate seawater.

It will not be easy for candidates to continue to construct a parallel reality. Social processes have registered outbreaks of discontent in different parts of the country, mainly from the agricultural sector. Social nonconformity behavior does not grow in a scalar manner, it is dynamic and therefore destructive. It can be foreseen that the current electoral process will be intersected by social mobilization requiring solutions to real problems. For the protagonists of the electoral process, returning to the real world will be a healthy bath with cold water.

Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, January 25, 2024