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Monday, March 6, 2023

The Great Failure of L贸pez Obrador

"Mica" for BorderlandBeat.com 
Good read 馃憤 I am glad Mexico has soo much pride in not wanting to get rid of cartels with help from the gringos.  AMLO don't you see the money going to Ukraine? Isn't $ what this is all about? 

The Great Failure of L贸pez Obrador
President Andr茅s Manuel L贸pez Obrador was always correct in the diagnosis: violence in Mexico was linked to a mafia in power.

And now that we know that that is true - with the guilty plea against the alleged super policeman Genaro Garc铆a Luna - we must also recognize that AMLO has failed in his main promise and responsibility: to stop that violence.

L贸pez Obrador was chosen, precisely, to face the crime and chaos that terrifies the country. And he hasn't been able to with the order. His strategy of "hugs, not bullets" has made his government the most violent since the Cristera war and the revolution. Faced with this failure, he has not stopped blaming his predecessors.

"We still have to face that pig that they left us," AMLO said in a morning. That "cochinero" was formed, in part, when Garc铆a Luna occupied the main police positions in the country. He was the director of the Federal Investigation Agency (AFI) from 2001 to 2006 during the presidency of PAN member Vicente Fox. And then, from 2006 to 2012, he was Secretary of Public Security of Mexico under the government of Felipe Calder贸n.

There is no doubt that the so-called "war on drugs" - which began with Calder贸n and then spread during the presidency of PRI member Enrique Pe帽a Nieto (2012-2018) - has been a national tragedy and has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths. But it is also true that L贸pez Obrador promised in his last electoral campaign to end that violence and has not been able to. "I'm going to get peace, that's my commitment," he said in January 2018. "In the middle of the six-year term, there will be no war."

AMLO didn't comply.

We have already passed half of the six-year term, the war continues with other names and the violence is worse than ever. The figures don't lie. Since L贸pez Obrador became president, 139,077 Mexicans have been assassinated, according to official data from the same government. This figure exceeds the 124,478 intentional homicides that occurred in the Pe帽a Nieto government. And it is higher than the 121,683 murders that occurred in Calder贸n's presidency, according to the INEGI count.

L贸pez Obrador's diagnosis of violence was accurate. But he didn't know what to do with it. The result is a country submerged in crime, with drug cartels controlling parts of cities and the national territory, with a very dangerous void of authority in entire regions and a terrifying forecast. (2023 started badly, with 2,582 intentional homicides in January; more than the 2,426 that occurred in January 2022.) Violence has normalized in Mexico. And it no longer surprises us until a murder, a kidnapping, a robbery or an extortion arrives near the family.

Several of us have warned the president that his strategy is generating more murders than any other government - I have gone four times in the morning to tell him - but he ignores. On the contrary, if he continues like this, his six-year term could culminate in about 190,000 deaths.

Despite the terrible results of his security strategy, AMLO refuses to correct course. He has militarized the country and the National Guard, and his idea of investing in the most vulnerable areas and groups to reduce violence could take decades before it knows if it works.

Therefore, we have to be realistic and recognize that AMLO is not going to be the president to end the violence in Mexico. History will mark his six-year term as the bloodiest of the century. His great failure was to have the correct diagnosis, the time to do it, the majority support of the population, all the resources of the government ... and to be wrong miserably in the strategy and in the execution. This has left us with a country full of graves and deaths.

And since AMLO does not have the solution to violence, we must look for someone else to do it and concentrate on the possible candidates for the presidency for 2024. The next leader of Mexico must have as a priority that they stop killing so many Mexicans. We have to look to the future. The present is stubbornly stuck in formulas that do not work, in innocent ideas, in good intentions and in useless recriminations to the past. Mexico needs a new leadership with a very clear objective: no more deaths.

The trial of Garc铆a Luna was a shock for Mexican society because it exposed the very high levels of corruption that exist in the government and in the country. Instead of chasing drug traffickers, Garc铆a Luna helped them. And, without a doubt, he could not act alone; the trial unearthed a shameful network of complicity. But the last government position that Garc铆a Luna held was 11 years ago. How long will your trial be used to try to justify the flaws in the current security strategy?

Blaming previous governments for the current violence in Mexico is not a solution. It's an excuse. And so you can't govern a country like ours.

70 comments:

  1. ELMO was such a failure.

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  2. Well done AMLO voters.

    Queso

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    1. Queso if you study back then, the other 2 presidential hopefuls were worse, even though ALMO lost before then (twice), they the people ended up voting for him
      Instead of fighting violence, he choose to embarrass the cartels. Years have passed on his watch, and the homicide rate averages 35,000 a year.

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    2. Thanks for your input no periods and all comas guy you really put things into perspective

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  3. If you're really a Mexican then you should know that all Mexican politicians promise things they can't keep. Some didn't even have the decency to even do that. They just did whatever TF they wanted and screwed generations to date.

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  4. We still have to face that pig that they left us," AMLO said in a morning. That "cochinero" translation for s wrong cochinero means big dirty mess

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  5. This guys is the best president Mexico has ever had.

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    1. No. Lazaro Cardenas has been the best. Look him up and learn about him. He's the only one that didn't abuse his power to get rich but instead helped the poor with land.
      He was a general before he was a president.

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    2. 836 and what do you think AMLO is doing? He's running on the same platform as Lazaro Cardenas. All of the major Mexican media companies are running a smear campaign against AMLO for not selling out. How can you tell? Compare the positive coverage on AMLO and the sell out Pe帽a Nieto to see the difference.

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    3. Porfirio D铆az is the best President Mexico ever had.

      Queso

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  6. Jorge ramos is a hack

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  7. Where you at AMLO cheerleader since you claim you aren't a chayotero.

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  8. I love Almo pero no homo

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  9. It be the foos that dont live in Mexico that criticize AMLO. Ppl here love that foo tbh.

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    1. That tells you a lot about the intelligence of those people.

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    2. Or the fucking ignorance of the ones talking who don’t even live there. Lmao gringos hate him cause amlo stays telling them to fuck off lmaooo

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  10. AMLO had the political power to do so much good for the country with control of both chambers of congress. A s煤per mandate/majority you could call it. If you believed this man, like I did, you could be forgiven if you really believed he would make all his rhetoric good since he had sought the presidency on two prior losing occasions but alas he resorted to blaming his prior adversaries for his inability to govern.
    Andr茅s Manuel L贸pez Hablador ya vete a la chingada transa in煤til!!

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    1. El PRI has turned Mexico into a yogurt over the last 80 or so years and y'all are sour at Obrador for not snapping his fingers and making it all better. Perhaps you folks should lay off of the Marvel universe movies because that type of Superhero doesn't exist. Wake the fuck up, instead of criticizing this old man who's actually stepping up, why don't you try and become better citizens, which will then result in a better fucking country.

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    2. 12:21 the only person who made himself out to be a Marvel or DC comics superhero was El Hablador Andr茅s Manuel pero le qued贸 grande el puesto al 馃挬.
      Do you really think he/MORENA came up with the 4T before he swept 29+ states in the presidential election? This DMF sold himself as a savior to M茅xico but it was all a facade to reach power and then take in the $$. Even if he cracked down on all the bosses that wouldn't matter to the people who have lost a family member to the violence that isn't confronted by the federal government.
      Remember chayotero, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me for being a pendejo sin malicia.

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    3. No the people
      In Mexico just wanted to try something different.
      But all Poitiicians are corrupt.
      Especially the socialists,
      Bernie Amlo

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    4. 12:21 AM - You people conveniently forget that AMLO was a heavyweight in the PRI long before he ever formed Morena. That's where he learned everything he knows. Why do you think he brought Bartlett and all the other dinosaur rats into Morena with him?

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    5. 2:54 he was always only looking out for himself and people still believe him.

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  11. Jorge Ramos is the mex Don lemon. Get real will ya

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  12. Lol @ all the Americans in the comment section criticizing 馃槀

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  13. Fact about AMLO I respect he fights hard keeping gmo crops from getting grown in Mexico the cartels another beast give the man a break

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  14. This is not rocket science.....pass RICO Act law similar to the US and first offer amnesty to all that will denounce the gangs and for those that don't either lock them up and throw away the key or start killing them all.

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  15. The guilty pleasure of GGL? Since when did he plead guilty

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  16. AMLO #1 The hell with gringos. Fuck Jorge Ramos. He should have kept this same energy with other ex presidents. He's nothing but a puppet.

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  17. " The Great Failure of Obrador"... Damn Jorge, well atleast AMLO stayed in Mexico and tried. If Jorge Ramos loved Mexico that much he should've stayed and fought to make Mexico a better place, but instead, he left. Sounds like the person who failed Mexico was Jorge Ramos....

    I see Jorge Ramos as just another talking head. He's a tool, a chayotero, a puppet, who if he doesn't do as his puppet master commands when they pull them strings, he looses his multi-million dollar contract. Here he is criticizing AMLO for being soft on crime but in other essays he condemns U.S law enforcement for being too aggressive...
    This past week the Guardia Nacional killed them 5 suspected CDN members in Nuevo Leon. I'm wondering, is that what Jorge Ramos is hoping for? Shoot first, ask questions later? There's rules of engagement to prevent human rights violations. That's why in places like Michoacan, Jalisco, Nuevo Leon and Sinaloa you see towns people in narco strong holds attacking the Guardia Nacional while the soldiers are standing there not fighting back. The Guardia can't just go in there and start slaughtering civilians as it was done in Ayotzinapa and Tlatelolco.
    He's condemning AMLO for militarizing Mexico. Was Jorge expecting corrupt ill-equipped policia municipal to go in there and combat the cartels? This multi-millionaire is out of touch.

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    1. So did salma hayek. She got the fuck out too

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    2. “Jorge Ramos let down Mexico” 馃ぃ Sounds like something AMLO would say, when death totals under his leadership are brought to his attention.

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    3. Death Totals are super high under the government of ALMO.

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    4. 203 and so did all those that robbed the country. Ask yourself, where did Pe帽a Nieto go after he sold off Mexican oil contracts to foreign "investors"?.. Spain. Where is Ricardo Anaya after he literally sold out for half a million dollars? "Self exile" in the U.S. Let me guess, Calderon went back to Michoacan after his term because he managed to pacify his state? Nope he's in Spain aswell. Zedillo? U.S. working for a company he granted a contract to while president. Salinas de Gortari? Lives in a Castle in Ireland after selling the railroads and mineral wealth to the U.S, Canada and Europe. Let's not forget about Genaro Garcia Luna, he was living in the U.S. before being arrested for selling out to the cartels. Jorge Ramos, well after selling out to a corporate media company he moved into a multi-million dollar mansion in Miami with a multi- million dollar Univision contract. Far far away from his violence plagued motherland. He could act like he cares because that's what he gets paid to do, but at the end of the day he's so detatched from the violence that it's the last thing on his mind.

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    5. Now we have to wait and see what Elmo will sell off and what country he will move too, after he is no longer president.

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    6. Move to another country, maybe but for Security reasons rather than corruption. Mind you he is a Nationalist so I think he'll stay in Mexico. I don't think he is going to sell any industry if you consider the number of projects he nationalized. For example, the Tren Maya and the Tren Istmo de Tehuantepec were structured so that the financial proceeds and maintenance responsibilities would fund and occupy the military, making it almost impossible to privatize. The Lithium deposits located in Sonora along with the solar farm projects were also nationalized.

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    7. Who would want to stay in a shit hole where people use the most dehumanizing and evil means to kill someone while recording it ? Sounds like the “ World’s Asshole “ to me. Why not leave that shit country and find a better place where you can live and enjoy life? Sounds like your mad he left and you’re stuck. Keep hopping that fence one day you’ll make it.

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    8. Mica, I support AMLO's efforts, they're not perfect but he's trying, despite all of the yellow tape he encounters. In all seriousness, what do you think AMLO or the next president needs to do to improve Mexico's situation.

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    9. 326, 110 Million people.

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    10. 4:14
      ALMO is a Narco President.

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    11. LOL@921. Ovidio is in Jail, RCQ is in jail, El Omega is in jail, Huevo Trevino is in jail, El Lupe and his son are in Jail, Menchos wife and brothers are in jail, El Marro is in Jail, La Vaca is in Jail, operations against La fresa y el pez were conducted a few days ago but they got away, an operation for El Guano was also conducted but he got away, El RR and El Apa were almost caught but they got away, but some how in your distorted point of view AMLO is a NarcoPresident.... okay, Whatever you say dude. 馃ぃ馃ぃ馃ぃ馃ぃ馃ぃ馃ぃ馃ぃ

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  18. The problem is not the war on the drugs/cartels, the problem is the total incompetence and corruption with which it is executed. There would be even more deaths if the government did nothing by ending the war on drugs. It's time to admit Mexico is not capable of sorting this out and to ask for American armed intervention to deal with it

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    1. Watch out for the Almo internet influencers, they will come in soon to brainwash you, that Almo is the best president Grampa.

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    2. Should Mexico help America with all its killings (including school shootings) because America definitely doesn’t have it under control.

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    3. We’ve got it under more control than Mexico ever has. I don’t see Americans risking their lives to try to cross the border to get down there ? It’s obvious something you people want from America 馃嚭馃嚫, most likely a hand out.

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  19. The all have take orders from the gringos. Just remember that Mexico was lost during the Mexican American War

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  20. The writer is right wing probably,typical.All talk,no solution.You have to look at everything Amlo had done to see if it is relatively successful or not.Details.Solutions.Could it be done in a term?

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    1. Jorge Ramos is a Trump hater, so there goes that theory.

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    2. Jorge is on the big news channels. He’s no chump or a rookie.

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  21. Gringos dont like AMLO cause he’s been the only president to tell them to fuck off hahahah

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    1. Gringos could care less soft arse,make your life better stop cryin

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  22. Why would La Sheinbaum even want that job ?

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  23. He's almost gone so the sooner he leaves the better hopefully the next one will do a better job and it won't be someone from his party.

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  24. What an idiot he bit the hand that feeds him trying to act like a stupid Macho.mexicano.

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  25. Jorge Ramos is a good reporter so what if he hates trump the guts a racist only stupid Mexicans or other Hispanics like the guy.

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  26. Heres all the false claimers latent racism and hate spewing out

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  27. You all voted for AMLO and now you blame gringos lmfao,pathetic

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  28. Jorge Ramos has had it for AMLO since day one. Ever wonder/think that AMLO doesn't the US involvement in Mexico. I think he has made that very clear, that he wants his borders respected, the same way the US wants it own respected. Clearly the US involvement in Mexico was for their own good. Why was the Genaro Garcia Luna cases ended early? Was the information coming out going to be too harmful to the USA's war on drugs? Why is there no capos in the US being caught? Is it that the biggest capo is the US government?

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    1. Saul respect because you are an informed person. Sheezz CIA where running cartels in Mexico that is the reason Amlo kick them out. Pinche Jorge Ramos ni su mama le cree; he gives two tortillas for Mexico. He is more American than Donald Trump...Jorge Trump!!!

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    2. The CIA running cartels. How dumb of a comment can you get ? There is no reason for arms to be funneled to another struggling nation. No need for CIA to be operating in this hemisphere valedictorian. Even the CIA wouldn’t stand for all that fent getting pusher and thrown on weak drug addicts. It’s always excuses like your president ELMO. The king of excuses.

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    3. @5:50 Don't have to look too far back. Just look at Operation Fast & Furious ran by the ATF (US Government agency) and purposely allowed guns into Mexico. One of these guns was then later used to shoot and kill a border agent. This has been going on for far too long, which is why AMLO does not want anymore US involvement.

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    4. 2:37
      That's really old news, it's like you continue to have a chip on your shoulder.
      Think about the thousands of guns and bullets, that are smuggled into Mexico, and the Mexican customs, don't really do much. Think about the present not the past Mijo.

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    5. No chip. But these issues were not born overnight. Just like they are not going to be resolved overnight. With that said, less US involvement seems like the right move. Respect Mexico's sovereignty.

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    6. @335 if fast and furious is old news, then why is the U.S even prosecuting Genaro Garcia Luna. It happened around the same time... so what's good for the goose isn't good for the gander?

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  29. sad to see poor journalism on BB cartel violence goes way back and took a big jump shortly after calderon declared his war on drugs headed by garcia luna, in reality helped sinaloa expand their reach with support and protection from the afi and policia federal, homicide rate has been up and down ever since amlo took office but it's a steady decline

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  30. Mexico would never get the “aid” that Ukraine is getting from the fraud Biden and the libs. The smorgasbord of crimes that Biden is able to pull off with the “aid” in Ukraine is mind boggling. I mean the guy is on tape threatening an Ukraine prosecutor investigating said grift. The energy guru hunter was getting huge money for being the energy guru he is. That’s just what we know! Any fucking idiot knows that Mexico should be getting the billions in tax payer money that Ukraine is getting! Mexico should’ve been handled long ago. I mean they are our fucking most important neighbor. All you fucking idiots who make these false claims about Trump know deep down that Trump would’ve been the USA president to do it. He would’ve gladly flooded Mexico with aid, BUT with stiff non negotiable conditions!

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    1. 6:32 of course Mexico will NOT get the AID, Ukraine is receiving.
      Mexico is not at war with an enemy.
      Dios Mio mucha Gente usando drugas.

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  31. Amlo doing a great job this far. Y'all fat kids need to understand what "hugs not bullets" actually means. I know most of you can only use a translator to help but y'all sound as silly as sol prendido.

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