translated from Spanish: Amlo is a copy of Echeverría and López Portillo: Kaiser

Mexico.- The president of the Anticorruption Commission, Max Kaiser, said that the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is “a copy of the governments of Echeverría and López Portillo.” The analyst said that the Fourth Transformation is the most “kitsch” administration in the history of Mexico, that is, the one that has made the most use of a “pretentious, cheesy and tasteful aesthetic.” Through an article published on his personal website, the expert on anti-corruption issues maintained that both the current head of the Federal Executive Branch and most of his cabinet were “politically educated in the PRI of the 70s.” In this regard, he indicated that, until today, the “most kitsch era” was that of the governments of former Presidents Luis Echeverria Alvarez and Jose Lopez Portillo, whom he described as “a pair of pretentious populists, who assumed themselves to be leaders of the third world.” He denounced that the constant in these two former chief executives emanating from the Institutional Revolutionary Party was that “they founded their political project on cheesy and false reinterpretations of the features of Mexican society, the history of Mexico, culture, “Mexicanness,” and native peoples,” a task for which they used historians and sociologists “in the service of their PRI governments.” He recalled that both Echeverria and Lopez Portillo “lived by the discourse,” with the aim of trying to hide the fact that their government actions were not yielding results. Kaiser pointed out that the administrations of the tricolours ended up being a failure, which had to be paid for for generations. He said that in order to sustain a “country that did not exist in fact,” the former federal governors spent millions of pesos from the public purse that “were thrown away,” which was reflected at the end of Lopez Portillo’s six-year term, when Mexico was plunged into economic crisis and, in addition, full of corruption. Finally, Max Kaiser asserts that “today we live in the lopezobradorista neo kitsch”, attacking the model of the Templo Mayor placed in the Zocalo of Mexico City on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the fall of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, considering it “cheesy, hollow, false, pretentious, manipulative and unreal”. He points out that the 32 months of the Fourth Transformation have failed to manipulate reality through false narratives, which are summarized in “the good people have been victimized by some bad lords, who lost power thanks to the good messiah, who came to rescue them from all their evils”; speech which he considered “full of hatred and prejudice”. He accused that, with this speech, López Obrador has managed to destroy the education, security, health, economic and energy systems, while trying to take control of autonomous bodies such as the National Electoral Institute (INE) and the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF). Read more: Marcelo Ebrard confirms sending humanitarian aid to Haiti after 7.2-degree earthquake However, he emphasized that the “antidote” against governments such as López Obrador, Echeverría and López Portillo is criticism and criticism of government actions.



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