It was one of the worst weeks of the so-called 4T. A sum of mistakes, provocations, gratuitous exhibitions, of obscure and insulting language, of intentions that are not confessable because they are evident. And there are few, very few, areas of the federal government that were spared. But few things are more delicate than what is attempted with justice in general and with the Supreme Court in particular.
This week the issue of the unconstitutionality of the decree that declared all kinds of works of national security to avoid giving information about them will be finished. There are still aspects to be discussed by the plenary, but it was established by eight votes to three that this decree was, as was foreseeable, unconstitutional.
It can be understood that certain works can be considered national security, but the decree covered almost everything and the intention was, actually is, to advance more quickly in the works that interest the President without being accountable and without having to deal with annoying injunctions and complaints. from the obligation to disclose information.
As soon as the Court’s first resolution came out, the federal Executive hastened to issue another decree almost identical to the challenged one, except that it lists the works that are considered national security. Its unconstitutionality can be sued again. The problem is that the person who filed the unconstitutionality claim was an Inai who cannot meet because he does not have the number of directors necessary to achieve a quorum and the ruling party keeps it that way so that it does not work. Nothing of transparency, of clarity, of knowing how the works are made, with whom or how. For now, what will remain in force is the new decree.
There are several decisions assumed by the federal government in decrees and laws that have been or will end up being declared unconstitutional. But that is why they try to disappear (reform in that sense) or at least discredit the Supreme Court, and it is done from the National Palace and positions of power. Few things have been more grotesque than the demonstration on Saturday organized and paid for (illegally, of course) by the governor of Veracruz, Cuitlahuac Garcia, with their deputies and officials. An insulting demonstration for the conveners themselves, with coffins, death threats to ministers and ministers and without the slightest sense of democracy from its organizers, which brought together some 1,500 people. It was literally embarrassing.
But first, on Friday we woke up with the news that a stretch of railway, more than one hundred kilometers long, owned by Grupo México had been expropriated by the federal government, and its facilities and tracks occupied by the Navy. It was more surprising because it happened early Friday morning, although the president Lopez Obrador had met with the owner of Grupo México, German Larrea, Tuesday and Wednesday. First, at a business meeting and then alone. In the week he had accepted that his own the meadow to buy Banamex and work was underway to officially announce the purchase as quickly as possible.
This section of more than one hundred kilometers of railway, the government considers essential for the construction of the Trans-Isthmic Corridor (which is advancing with great delay), but Grupo México wanted to keep it for its own operations, they even offered the federal government to build a parallel railway so that the new runner could use it.
There were negotiations and different possibilities of reaching agreements, but this government likes to give orders and have them obey, even if they are whims. On Friday morning the negotiations ended and an expropriation decree was issued for “temporary utility” that in legal terms will also fall. Because that stretch of railway, like all of them, is a concession from the State to individuals, and the State cannot expropriate itself. In any case, the concession should have been withdrawn, which was not done, because, furthermore, this would have innumerable repercussions, even worse than those that this expropriation for temporary utility has had.
The explanation was once again national security. But the decree itself, like many in recent times, is so sloppy and flawed in its terms that, when it is brought to court, it will inevitably end up invalidated as well. But months will probably pass and the plaintiffs will find themselves with fait accompli. That is what is wanted.
In between we had the stupidity of Ana Gabriela Guevarain his statements against the young swimmers who won three gold medals and one copper at the Cairo World Cup and who complained, quite rightly, about not having received support from the Conade, which presides over Guevara. The former Olympic medalist covered the athletes with insults for complaining and defended a national federation whose leaders have been accused of corruption for some time, but who continue to receive money and do not send it to the athletes, which led to an intervention by the international swimming federation.
To compete, the young swimmers sold bathing suits, received support from Telmex and Aeroméxico and with their own efforts managed to reach the World Cup and win. The Army has six members among the swimmers, but from there they only earn a salary and nothing more. They had no support from any sports entity.
In another dimension, the Guevara it exhibits the way of governing, the contempt for individual and team effort (remember the rejection of aspirationism?) and the distortion of the truth after institutional failure.
