Former Mexican Prime Minister and three-time presidential candidate Cuauht\u00e9moc C\u00e1rdenas criticized the criticism of the third government report of Mexican President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
"I see the country with many shortcomings," he declared during the Third International Meeting of Government and Civil Society, to which Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero, former president of the Spanish government, was invited. The meeting of leaders took place during the International Book Fair \u2013FIL\u2013. In his presentation "Equality versus freedom, freedom versus equality: is it possible to resolve the perennial tension?"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Mexican politician pointed out that, during the last three years of government led by L\u00f3pez Obrador \u2013 who was elected in 2018 \u2013 "we do not currently have internal peace in the country, we are well aware of the presence of organized crime." And the majority of Mexican territory, including tourist destinations, remains in the hands of drug cartels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
C\u00e1rdenas also spoke out against the decline of political parties: "I am concerned that there are no proposals from political parties; we have a political life centered on confrontation." He pointed out that the opposition does not seek dialogue to reach agreements and instead focuses on attacking the president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said that in order to end violence in Mexico, political and economic integration is necessary in order to "expand and consolidate our freedoms."<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Journalist Carmen Aristegui was also present at the symposium, and she pointed out that the country has lived through a \u201cpromise of regime change.\u201d C\u00e1rdenas responded that \u201cthe results of a government are measured in achievements.\u201d On the economic side, she said, \u201cwe have not managed to reverse the downward trend\u201d following the latest inflation figure that has caused the Mexican peso to plummet against the US dollar, which this week reached 22 pesos. \u201cWe will be behind the objectives that we had achieved in previous years,\u201d said C\u00e1rdenas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In response, C\u00e1rdenas called on Mexico's electoral body to demand "clean, fair and well-conducted processes," stressing that democracy must be egalitarian and must be present in the daily lives of citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero, former Prime Minister of Spain, pointed out the fundamental role of women in the political processes of a nation. \u201cIt took women 700 years to be able to go to university,\u201d Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero said, declaring that universities opened 800 years ago in Europe. \u201cDemocracy is a very solid system,\u201d Zapatero said, comparing the opinion of flat-earthers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finally, C\u00e1rdenas said that it is important to seek dialogue and agreement "even between opponents" to see how far it is possible to "walk together" with the effort and will of the people who fight for an egalitarian democracy.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cristian Carlos El exjefe de gobierno y tres veces excandidato a la presidencia de M\u00e9xico, Cuauht\u00e9moc C\u00e1rdenas critic\u00f3 la glosa por el tercer informe de gobierno del presidente de M\u00e9xico, Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador. \u00abVeo al pa\u00eds con muchos rezagos\u00bb, declar\u00f3 durante el III Encuentro Internacional de Gobierno y Sociedad Civil, en el cual, estuvo […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cover","8":"category-usworld","9":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8224,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8222\/revisions\/8224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}