93 years of PRI history

The PRI is like this because that’s how we Mexicans are.- Carlos Salinas de GortariThe Institutional Revolutionary Party is 93 years old and in the middle of the celebrations from his official Twitter account they launch an infographic that contains “93 data that you may not have known” which states in its point 48: The most handsome president of Mexico was PRI (sic). With this level of frivolity, the once powerful and dominant party presumes as if it were a virtue the physical appearance of who, according to perception, has been the president with the most corrupt administration in history and who is also directly and indirectly guilty of the recent debacle of the PRI and the blurring of the political office.
Thus decides to start the celebrations for its 93 years of history the PRI, the party that governed our country for 77 years, which in its best moments can boast of important achievements, such as the creation and consolidation of institutions that brought development, stability and progress to Mexico, but that today is in its worst stage, far from the sympathy of the citizenry and linked his name with all kinds of negative connotations, today saying PRI for the people becomes synonymous with corrupt, thieves, criminals, inept.
All Mexicans are Guadalupanos and PRI members, pointed out a very respected professor who I had the honor of attending his class, and frankly I find his words full of reason, we are Catholics and Guadalupanos, because the power of Catholicism permeates the configuration of our society, in such a way that no matter what religion we profess, we are governed by the rules that were established in social behavior by the influence of the Church in our country and the same happens with the political class and Mexican citizenship, the PRI gene is a reality, the PRI was the creator of the system that reigns and currently works in Mexico, with which all kinds of pejorative behaviors were incorporated into the political office and that are so rooted in our scenario, that no matter what political party we militate in or sympathize with, as Felipe Calderón said in his electoral campaign, “we all have a PRI member inside.”
Up the PRI to its 93rd anniversary being comparsa and accomplice of the party in power at convenience, negotiating votes in the chamber for spaces of power or for impunity, in a historical context in which the country required a congruent, combative and democratic opposition the PRI preferred to turn a blind eye and bet on taking care of and preserving its small spaces of power or betting on the amnesia of the people with the hope to win elections again.
The PRI celebrates 93 years with a tremendous crisis of identity, far from its bases, from the ideals it proclaims, with a weak and rusty structure, without a project, without ideas, without proposals. Believing, as always, that at some point a redemptive figure will come to solve the problems that keep the PRI behind in the mood of the voters, attached to the cult of personality to the constant idea that it will be a character who imposes order and evading responsibility and the possibility of organizing as a group to improve.
May the PRI improve in the short term, that it will understand its historical role and the need to transform, to open its doors to modernity, to transparency, to the democratization of the institute; hopefully, because there are very valuable cadres within the party and hopefully because a strong, honest and democratic PRI will always be welcome to the political scene of our country.
Happy Birthday, PRI, you’re the best! Get to do the chamba.



Original source in Spanish