From Fobaproa to life pensions: the encounter between Zedillo and Sheinbaum resurrects old polemics

After a time of declarative abstinence around Mexican political life, former President Ernesto Zedillo decided to break the silence to express his “concern” at the constitutional reform that seeks to heal the judiciary, shake the network of influence trafficking that corrodes it and give citizens the power to choose the judges. In line with the reactionary and technocratic thinking that has distinguished him throughout his career, Zedillo claims…

In these days President Claudia Sheinbaum has led a genuine crusade against former President Ernesto Zedillo, accusing him of a series of errors, omissions and clumsiness. The cause, was a text published by Zedillo in two Mexican magazines (Nexos y Letras Libres) in which the former president made a deep criticism of the dismantling of the federal judicial system. This provoked the excessive anger of Mrs. Sheinbaum who launched himself with ever…

Former President Ernesto Zedillo has put a bit of hot sauce on Mexican domestic politics with the publication of an article of apocalyptic dyes in which he speaks of the “death of democracy” in Mexico, replaced, he says, by a “dirty tyranny” with the governments of the Fourth Transformation, as the previous and current Claudia Sheinbaum are called. The publication of that text in Letras Libres has followed with other letters to the president of …

This week, former President Zedillo has been the favorite villain of the 4T for having committed the crime of commenting on the current situation in Mexico, said Reforma.

The Presidency of the Republic reissued yesterday a practice that seemed exclusive to López Obrador and used the Mexican government’s dissemination tools to go against a person. Ernesto Zedillo discredited that person with harsh qualifiers. He broadcast a propaganda documentary to widen the offensive and finished off with a presentation of who, one would suppose, should be one of the most careful officials in his actions against any Mexican: the…

The article by former President Zedillo in the magazine Letras Libres, in which he makes a clear denunciation that we are going “from democracy to tyranny,” has provoked a strong response by President Claudia Sheinbaum. In his response he went out to disqualify not what Zedillo said, but as Lopez Obrador did, to disqualify the former president personally.Zedillo is right, there are many reforms that have been approved in recent months that seek …