An insurrection without violence initiated the Fourth Transformation in Mexico. By Armando García

On May 5, in some thirty cities of the Mexican Republic, demonstrations were held in silence calling for the dismissal of Constitutional President Andrés Manual López Obrador (AMLO).

These demonstrations were carried out without any type of repression by the government authorities to be regretted. Something completely contrary to what happened in the twentieth century when the country was ruled by leaders from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) which has been held responsible for the genocide of October 2, 1968 and the massacre of Corpus Christi Day of June 10, 1971; in addition to thousands of disappeared and murdered in the last fifty years, part of which occurred during the governments of presidents coming from the National Action Party (PAN) who governed the country for two six-year terms.

Now AMLO, faces an alliance of the PRI and the PAN along with oligarchs of all levels, who oppose AMLO's reform policy to carry out the so-called Fourth Transformation (4T). The demonstrations of repudiation to the Mexican president, called Marchas del Silencio, had very low participation compared to the number of inhabitants that Mexico has, both in its territory and abroad.

The media reports that in Mexico City (CDMX) of some 20 million inhabitants, about 16,000 people participated, who departed from the Angel of Independence to the Monument to the Revolution.

In several entities of the country where there were demonstrations, the majority did not exceed a thousand people. This happened in Guadalajara, for example, where just about 500 people gathered. Or in Mérida and Monterrey, where about 100 people attended the call.

In León there were practically no people, but there were reporters, who went to cover the former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox Quesada, who went to demonstrate against AMLO.

The Mexican right, the opponents of AMLO, the neoliberal conservatives, the technocrats, blame AMLO for the seriousness of the country. His opponents, as AMLO calls them, are willing to do everything to see the 4T fail to which AMLO calls it “not a change of government but a change of regime”. And this is just beginning. He won an election; he came to power, but the transformation is on the way.

The 4T is a challenge to the neoliberal policy of the governments of the PRI and PAN and to those who share in keeping the Mexican population in poverty, violence and neglect. The Mexican people, without being hauled by the PRI or the PAN, in July 2018, overwhelmingly elected AMLO to be its president. It was an insurrection without violence, in order to start a different life for Mexicans.

"It is no longer the same," AMLO has said several times. "We are not the same," he says, referring to those who oppose him.

The opponents of the president are what he called "The Mafia in Power", now without the government in their hands, will do everything to regain the power not to lose everything, which was stolen from the coffers of the country, nor the riches that they obtained for decades through dirty businesses, ill-intentioned investments; etc.

For almost two decades, prior to his electoral triumph, AMLO was constant in keeping alive the flame of hope in Mexico; awakening the consciences of Mexicans who love freedom and social justice, until the peaceful overthrow of the bad government.

The actions of AMLO remind us of the words of the Apostle of the Mexican Revolution, Ricardo Flores Magón: We do not want rich, we do not want priests or rulers; we do not want scoundrels to exploit the forces of the workers; We do not want bandits to hold those scoundrels with law, nor evil people who, in the name of any religion, make the poor one a lamb who lets himself be devoured by the wolves without resistance and without protest.

AMLO has simply asked that they let him govern to show that if there is a way to govern Mexico, without corruption, with efficiency, for the benefit of the people of Mexico, who is the only one who takes heed. Is it a lot to ask? At that rate, Mexico will live in a true democracy.