The Mexican right wing against AMLO

By Armando García

The decision of the Mexican government to grant asylum to the Bolivian ex-president Evo Morales opens, without a doubt, a pandora box in for those allied to US imperialism.

As it was already planned, there is an ongoing intensive attack by the right wing against President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). Especially now that he is on the eyes of the world for giving refuge to Evo Morales. Some of AMLO’s adversaries  are encouraging elements of the army to overthrow him, accusing the President of a communist and dictator.

Such action circulates widely in social networks, as are the voices of the opposing parties that ruled the country and of which there are only bitter memories of dispossession, prey, violence, corruption, genocides, missing persons, murders; etc.

AMLO in his morning press conference said that his adversaries, the neo-liberals and conservatives, are classists, discriminators, racists with double standards, who have not gone, they are still there and not understand that his administration is no longer the same as in the past, but a regime change that is transforming the country. And it is normal that opposition exists since his enemies have not died, and they do not accept that Mexico is living different times. AMLO said that controversy is good, implying that it is a synonymous of freedom.

The right wing opposite to AMLO is taking advantage of the coup d’état in Bolivia and the welcoming of Evo Morales, as a way to launch the hook to Mexico’s society and to the world an accusing AMLO of dictator for the reforms that are taking place for the good of the country, obviously nothing good for the Mexican conservative oligarchy.

The situation in Mexico, as well as in of  rest Latin America, the right wing is cut by the same fabric. In each country, their interests are worth more than the interests of the working class, of the indigenous, the poor, the marginalized population. And now, with the support of President Trump, in countries, that they’re called socialists, communists, populists, dictatorships, totalitarians, the oligarchy  are fighting the leaders with social agendas that benefit the most marginalized population.

In the case of Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, the right is regaining power. What happened in Bolivia is a warning to AMLO, to the Mexican people who chose him and who supports him unconditionally. The conservative oligarchs will not stop attacking the Mexican president, unless the people do something stop them.

AMLO said that his opponents have the change through an election in 2022, to vote for the revocation of the mandate; that is to say, to ask the president to resign or to continue until his six-year term ends in 2024.

The people will have the opportunity to choose in the middle of the six-year term a person who represents those who buried Mexico in disgrace that do not let the country transform, or allow a president to sow the hope of change and a total transformation of the public and political life of the country.

Armando García is a renowned Mexican American journalist, founder and editor of Nuestra América Magazine. He has worked and collaborated with print and digital media in the United States and Latin America.