### Obsequioso y Ruin
“If you are not careful, the media will have you loving the oppressors and hating the oppressed.” – Malcolm X
About a month ago, Claudia Sheinbaum announced with great fanfare that Lázaro Cárdenas Batel would be the Chief of Staff of the Presidency, essentially her right-hand man. Cárdenas Batel is a proud member of one of the most reactionary bourgeois dynasties within PRI.
One look at the overly flattering article published about this by a well-known magazine, and we see statements like: “A reunion with the Cardenista left, excluded in the expiring six-year term, was realized today for the future six-year term: the virtual President, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, announced Lázaro Cárdenas Batel as Chief of Staff. The future official is an active descendant of a lineage that began in public life with General Lázaro Cárdenas del Río, a revolutionary and president (1936-1940) of notable social orientation; continued with his son, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano, a key leader in the democratic transition, three-time presidential candidate and former governor of Michoacán, like his father and also his son.”
Such sycophancy is repugnant! Whether these elite factions reunite or are excluded from public administration, the proletariat will remain wage slaves. The elite’s encounters or disputes won’t change the fact that the poor will stay mired in poverty and hunger.
Both groups are titled lackeys of the imperialist bourgeoisie. They remain staunch enemies of the proletariat.
Where did this social-democratic publication get the notion that the PRI militarist Lázaro Cárdenas del Río was a “revolutionary of notable social orientation”? He never fought in the ranks of true revolutionary patriots and anti-imperialists. As a young military man, Cárdenas attacked figures like Villa and Zapata, acted as a henchman for Venustiano Carranza, and was a loyalist to Álvaro Obregón. He remained a staunch PRI member until his death.
When Gustavo Díaz Ordaz’s PRI regime perpetrated the dreadful Tlatelolco massacre on October 2, 1968, Cárdenas del Río did not rise against this horrific crime or resign from PRI. Instead, he tacitly supported the fascist right’s accusations that the student movement was a “communist plot” and therefore deserved to be massacred.
Cárdenas del Río was a colonial watchdog for American imperialism. U.S. President Roosevelt, a despot, held him in high regard, just as he did other infamous dictators like Somoza, Trujillo, and Getúlio Vargas.
The so-called “reunion” between Cuauhtemism and Lopezobradorism, reflects the political color blindness of certain publications. These factions within the “left” bourgeoisie never truly separated or politically clashed, much less ideologically. Both serve the capitalist class as mastiffs guarding the same master’s interests, ensuring they don’t destabilize the colonial status quo.
Portraying Sheinbaum as a leftist-progressive woman with sycophantic zeal, the publication mentions her parents were active participants in social movements and Communist Party members until 1981. Still, it omitted her involvement in significant controversies.
For instance, Sheinbaum was involved in the 2017 Rebsamen school tragedy and the 2021 Metro accident, resulting in multiple deaths, yet powerful figures like Carlos Slim were shielded from accountability.
Sheinbaum’s administration also saw violent police repression of women’s justice marches, undercutting her “communist” façade. Articles forget the numerous atrocities committed during Lázaro Cárdenas Batel’s governance in Michoacán, notably the violent crackdown on SICARSA workers.
Returning to Sheinbaum-Cárdenas Batel’s symbiosis, the reaction from authorities like López Obrador was predictable, praising these figures and their decisions, showcasing a clear alliance.
Ominously, Sheinbaum supported the appointment of Omar García Harfuch, implicated in the Ayotzinapa massacre, to a high-ranking police position, revealing her administration’s true alignment.
In conclusion, publications that cheerlead for such figures risk becoming official mouthpieces for the regimes they praise, just as others have historically done.
– Javier Antuna
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