Claudia Sheinbaum Criticizes Former Mexican Presidents

In a direct speech, Claudia Sheinbaum Criticizes Former Mexican Presidents, considering that these leaders never advocated for social equality for the Mexican people.

Claudia Sheinbaum, coordinator of the Committees for the Fourth Transformation (4T), criticized previous governments, from Ernesto Zedillo (1994 to 2000) to Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018), during an event with the membership of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) in Querétaro.

Sheinbaum’s criticism came days after Zedillo made controversial statements related to the 2024 presidential elections during the Global Forum on Disparity Issues in Latin America, Palestine, and Iran at the University of Chicago.

“Now Zedillo comes to talk to us about the country’s democracy being at risk, which is the worst thing that can happen to Mexico, and do you know what we tell him? Democracy is Mexico’s power, and that’s what President López Obrador is doing and what we will do during our governing period,” she expressed on November 4.

Sheinbaum attacked the former presidents of Mexico and recalled the scandal of the Banking Fund for Savings Protection (Fobaproa), which Zedillo is associated with.

“Instead of rescuing those at the bottom, they rescued those at the top, and it was said that the famous Fobaproa was going to cost 125 billion pesos, and today, as the President recently stated in his morning briefing, it costs nearly 3 trillion pesos.”

Sheinbaum Criticizes Former Mexican Presidents

Sheinbaum criticized the former presidents of Mexico and pointed out that the governments before Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s left poverty, inequality, and debt.

In that regard, she lashed out against Fox and Zedillo for daring to speak about democracy.

“And what did they leave for the country? Poverty, inequality, debt, and now Calderón is speaking abroad about democracy, but with what moral authority? He himself said, ‘Let it be as it may,'” she explained.

In addition to that, she criticized him for the so-called war on drug trafficking and for leaving Genaro García Luna in charge of the Secretariat of Public Security.

Calderón’s predecessor was not exempt from the reproach of the coordinator of the 4T Defense, who recalled that López Obrador’s impeachment took place during Fox’s six-year term and asserted that it was intended to curb the current president’s participation in the 2006 elections.

“Fox arrived, supposedly bringing democracy to the country, and it turns out that a few years later, they impeached President López Obrador, as Chief of Government, for building a road to a hospital,” she reproached.

Furthermore, Sheinbaum stated that AMLO did not assume the presidency in 2012 due to the campaign against him, in which he was accused of being “a danger to Mexico.” According to Morena’s virtual presidential candidate, this is why Peña Nieto triumphed.

She accused the latter of harming the country with structural reforms that led to the privatization of Pemex (Petróleos Mexicanos) and the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE).

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