#Visagate

For #society horizontal. To #Nuevarepublic.

The week has passed around the news that the governor of Baja California, Marina del Pylar, alongside her husband, Carlos Torres, lost their visa to enter the United States. Although there was no official public copy of the reason for the aforementioned Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the media exploded with all kinds of hypotheses. One of the guesses related to this fact is the “Huacholeo” theme, due to the recent confirmation of about 8 million liters of hydrocarbon, illegally stored in the property of Insinada, to accusations about the potential “white” of drug smuggling assets from Tijuana habits.

#Visagate, which is called a wide discussion in social networks, has led among those who put themselves in favor of this measure, to link it to the acts of corruption, and those that pretended to be considered a political measure without a judicial basis. For its part, President Claudia Shinbum said she had not received any notice about these facts from the US government.

In parallel, journalist Tim Golden wrote in ProPublica There is a list consisting of about 35 people “who can lose the visa, which includes the leaders of the Maurina party, and many conservatives and political figures close to former President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.” According to Golden sources, in “some cases, there will be sanctions from the Treasury”, which consists of frozen financial assets. In addition, it was published that the above list was collected by the Drug Control Department in 2019, after Amlo began “to close cooperation with the United States in drug programs.”

It is very likely that it is not an isolated scale. Since the Mexican carters referred to terrorist groups by Trump, the prevailing anxiety in the highest circles may revolve around the way this decision can take off the historical relationship between criminal actors and political authorities.

In this context, we must ask questions to ourselves as a society: Are we ready to become a real awareness of the way the illegal money works in the Mexican political system? Do we have a maturity to understand that the smuggling of large gasoline on a large scale represents the “organization” of corruption in which politicians, businessmen and social leaders participate? Can we understand that historical clients, huge expenses during political campaigns, and the massive push to the media have league championships with criminal activities such as drug smuggling?

The suspension of the visa to Avila Olmida can be the beginning of a series of events that appear reliably the terrible “moral” collapse that has lived our political system for several decades. Therefore, instead of assuming the typical opposition position – the hollow for criticism and trial, it is time for those who live in this country to ask ourselves if we are ready to accept that we are partners – for work or omission – from the cancer that destroys public life. For recognition and commitment to real birth – not cosmetics because it sells us in every option – of values ​​and principles in Mexican society, based on morals, truth and collective honor.

Mexico has a wonderful future in front of itself, but we must be responsible for its construction.

Meanwhile, we will have to pay attention to the upcoming immediate effects: Will this Sheinbau episode serve to unify power and shake from some characters inside his party? Who will be the losing political groups and the winners? In addition, what are the structural effects that will come? Will this lead to new bilateral agreements that modify the performance of our customs or public order forces (for example, on the border)? Will it act as an excuse to show the weaknesses of the justice connection system, and now that the critical voting process has ended? How will these facts affect the credibility of our democracy and our general leadership?

#Visagate So -alled will make challenges, but also huge areas of opportunities. #Sociedadhorizontal should play an active role in understanding the situation to suggest ways to deep development about the way in which Mexico works. Above attention from immediate effects, we are obligated to think about how to express our collective awareness to make way for #NueVarePublic.