The Spanish journalist Javier Moreno includes 30 years of interviews with Latin American former presidents in ‘Who sends here?
“It seems to me that Sheinbaum intends to change things, but what I am not sure is that I have the necessary tools to achieve success,” says Moreno in an interview with EFE about the current political situation of the country.
The United States declared drug traffickers as “terrorist objectives” and with that “they can send four drones, violate Mexican airspace and bombard you.”
Therefore, according to the journalist, Sheinbaum has decided to change the policy that former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024) had followed.
Moreno, former director of the newspaper El País, interviewed seven former presidents, including Mexicans Felipe Calderón (2006-2012) or Vicente Fox (2000-2006), the Brazilian Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016) or the Colombian César Gaviria (1990-1994); All of them protagonists in the fight against drug trafficking and military use for this type of confrontations.
Moreno comments that he has worked this text for more than 30 years throughout his various rooms in Mexico.
In addition, he confesses that the trigger to write it was the “brutal” level of dead and disappeared in Mexico, which only in the Sexenio de López Obrador reached 193,000 deaths and in 2024 more than 30,000, according to data from the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC).
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‘Sheinbaum intends to change things, but has no tools’: Javier Moreno
That “fascinated him in the negative sense,” he emphasizes that “in the issue of violence there has been a brutal regression” in democratic systems.
“It goes against those really assumed ideas that history always progresses forward and rights are increased,” he says.
The lack of tools or “strength” of the State, the little capacity of the armies, the “ineffective” police, having a judicial system that “does not work” and the institutional failure seen by decades, are just some of the reasons why the leaders consider that the leaders cannot comply with what “society needs.”
Moreno points out that he does not seek to go into details about whether what leaders such as the ex -president Calderón and his “war” against the narco were right or wrong, but it is questioned if there was really the political intention to change reality.
“There have been serious attempts to face, to recover the appearance of at least one functional status, and other times not. For example, in the case of President López Obrador, that will was not clear and in the case of President Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018) either,” he argues.
Of what does not doubt is that in both cases “the results have been a disaster”, and explains that much of the guilt of the little success of these leaders throughout Latin America is the little preparation with which they come to power and how their parties are “just platforms to choose the president.”
“In the end they arrive with very little experience and especially with very little machinery. Its character, their impulses and their decisions end up marking the action of the government excessively, because there is no way to agree on a policy,” he concludes.
With EFE information.
