As you watch the president’s latest conference Lopez Obrador You remember how your old man used to wake up before dawn to listen to morning calls on an insignificant battery-powered radio. During the six months he was very ill, until he died of cancer, your old man even told you about the time when AMLO He read the letter he sent to King Felipe VI, where he asked that the Spanish Crown apologize to the native peoples for the Conquest. Your old man, of Otomi descent, was very happy. “It’s good that you told those bastards their things,” he told you.
Your old man, who said that Lopez Obrador He had restored his dignity with the pension for the elderly. He also told you that his hair stood on end when the president spoke of a coup d’état being plotted. “If they do that, the revolution will happen, son.” He also told you that that morning when AMLO and his security cabinet presented the failed operation against Ovidio Guzman. And he also told you about the time when the president said that “at 5 in the morning the luck was shared,” even though for your old man there was no luck possible.
Another morning that your old man told you about was the one when the journalist Jorge RamosHegemonic as he was, he argued with AMLO over the number of murders. Your old man told you: “That Ramos’s jaw dropped when he answered: ‘I have other information.’” Watching him telling you about the president’s exploits as if they were his own revealed to you that your old man saw in Lopez Obrador to one of his own. You still think that he cared more about AMLO when he got sick with COVID than about him, who ended up hospitalized because of the bug.
When he was discharged, he told you that, like López Obrador, he put himself in the hands of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and other saints, and you remembered that occasion when the president disbursed his religious cards and showed them to respond to the measures that had taken to contain the epidemic. “The protective shield is honesty, that is what protects, not allowing corruption (…) stop, enemy, the Heart of Jesus is with me.”
It is a shame that Don Goyo was not alive enough to know that the president came up with a section (Who’s Who), another tool to dismantle false stories, dilute information that was negative to him, impose the government epic and defend himself. of slander. Your old man wasn’t even able to listen to the entire playlist that AMLO proposed and that included Grupo Firme, Grupo Frontera, Residente, Rubén Blades, Lila Downs and The Tigers of the Norththe fathers of the modern narcocorrido.
Your old man didn’t know about the inauguration of the AIFAbut he did understand that when López Obrador canceled the Texcoco airport it was more of a political decision. “He is sending the message to the potentates that he is the president,” your old man told you. He also did not see the morning one that AMLO offered from the Genero García Luna bunker, but he did find out that the former Calderonista official was arrested for being a drug trafficker.
Although your old man got to see how AMLO appealed to the dysfunctional Mexican family and scolded the drug traffickers, he was no longer there when the president mocked the OAS, when he nominated Xochitl Galvezwhen he competed with the progressive-neoliberal middle class, when he fought with the NGOs, when he endured the black #Narcopresidente campaign, when he agreed with Carlos Slim to rebuild Line 12, when he showed a video clip made by IA where AMLO sings In my way, when he organized a morning party in the room where he met with his security cabinet, when companions of the parents of the 43 missing normal students from Ayotzinapa demolished the door of the National Palace or when the president failed them by not resolving the case.
According to a count of MILLENNIUM, AMLO It offered 1,423 morning sessions, something like 2,932 hours of recording. An era is ending. Even for you and your old man.
