In the name of the poor…
By: Hernán Maldonado - 30/12/2024
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Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who headed the worst Mexican government in recent decades, handpicked Claudia Sheimbaun as his successor and, against all odds, claimed a resounding victory in the 2024 Mexican elections.
The formula was made popular by Juan Domingo Perón in the 1950s when, together with his wife Evita, he became the standard-bearer of his “shirtless” people. 75 years later, the Peronist masses, from their hunger and their rags, still praise the heiress Cristina Kirchner, regardless of the fact that she has been convicted of being a thief and corrupt, but that she is not going to jail because of her age.
The military man Hugo Chávez Frías did the same in Venezuela, promising the “down-to-earth” the moon and the stars, blaming the rich for their poverty and, of course, American imperialism.
The prosperous oil country, the world's third largest producer of crude oil in the 1980s, was turned into a beggar state. 8 million Venezuelans have emigrated, but those who remained shouted in the streets: "Hungry and unemployed, I'm with Chavez!" (I'm going all the way).
In Bolivia, the fake indigenous Evo Morales (he does not speak any of the native languages) was imposed by Chavez, under the slogan of the “new man, the moral reserve of humanity…”
What Bolivians have seen is that they had as president an illiterate and sexually deviant (he is being investigated for statutory rape and perverting minors), who favored coca growers, from which cocaine is extracted, in addition to gigantic cases of corruption, squandering around 60 billion dollars during his 14 years in government.
Sixty-five years ago, with the slogan of fighting for the poor, Fidel Castro took Havana to turn Cuba into “the Switzerland of Latin America.” Two million Cubans have fled from “the island of happiness” (Chávez dixit) and those who stayed live in the most appalling misery without food, domestic gas, electricity, medicines, etc.
General Ali Lameda, who was a high-ranking Chavez official, revealed that Chavez had told him that “we must keep the poor poor, because they are the ones who vote for us…”
That is what López Obrador said, handing out Mexico's meager wealth to the dispossessed, poorly educated, but grateful in their hearts for the crumbs the regime threw them, so that they would look the other way at the tricks of the drug lords, who turned Mexico into a cocaine and fentanyl emporium.
The ruler was so cynical that he had no qualms about saying that the rich are the ones who suffer from kidnappings. The poor do not suffer from this scourge. In other words, in his political view, being poor had this great “advantage.”
A survey sponsored by businessman Marcelo Claure revealed a few weeks ago that 18% of the Bolivian electorate would vote for Evo Morales. The figure is incredible, but we must not forget that his followers coined the phrase for him: “The president of the poor.”
Is there any hope of reversing this absolutely absurd trend?
Perhaps it is possible. We saw it on July 28 in Venezuela. Entire neighborhoods in Caracas, a bastion of Chavismo for years, for hosting the “Juan Bimba,” voted against Nicolás Maduro, giving a resounding victory to the opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia.
He won by an overwhelming margin of more than 4 million votes.
“We won and we got paid,” leader María Corina Machado categorically promised.
Dawn will come and we will see… January 10th.
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