2024-01-12 06:00:51
The bomb dropped by the unrepentant Sanjuana Martínez, Notimex undertaker, regarding the probable illicit resources to finance Claudia Sheinbaum’s presidential campaign, has left aside a series of direct accusations once morest the Secretary of the Interior, Luisa María Alcalde, which outlines a mechanism of corruption that involves the family of the person responsible for the country’s internal politics, which must be investigated.
What Martínez denounced regarding the demand for 20% of the amount of the Notimex workers’ settlements for the campaign, negotiated by the secretary’s father, the lawyer Arturo Alcalde, leaves open the suspicion that there is a pattern to obtain illegal resources in electoral times at a time that coincides with the liquidations of the workers of Mexicana – whose lawyer was also Mayor – and Fonatur.
Martínez’s was the most scandalous accusation of irregular electoral financing to date, as he was a person who for years received the support and trust of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his wife, Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller. But she is not the first. Last year, an academic who defends López Obrador and his political project, Hernán Gómez Bruera, published “Betrayal in the Palace”, a book that, with research folders as documentary support, is a complaint once morest the former legal advisor to the Presidency, Julio Scherer. , which today raises funds for Sheinbaum.
In the book, Gómez Bruera points out that a businessman from Chihuahua, Miguel González, spoke with Scherer a few weeks before the 2018 presidential election to close “specific agreements” in compensation for the injection of resources to López Obrador’s campaign. The two had spoken before, the academic recalls, when through Scherer he injected 5 million pesos into Marcelo Ebrard’s campaign for the head of Government of Mexico City. On the second occasion, Scherer did not resolve anything, the author adds, but asked him for 10 million pesos for “the cause.”
On the eve of the election, the businessman met Gonzalo López Beltrán, son of the then candidate and in charge of defending the vote, to whom when he told him that he had contributed the 10 million, “he might not hide his annoyance. Apparently he was decomposed. “Apparently, the money had not been reported or given to the campaign.” What that passage in the book reveals is that this type of illegal financing was something normal and structured.
A few weeks ago, on tour in Oaxaca, a journalist asked López Obrador in the morning regarding that episode during his campaign, and he let it run through his Teflon, pointing out that he had not read the book nor was it true. This way of removing direct accusations was repeated by the president this week in the case of Martínez, whom he asked to present evidence of the illegal liquidations in Notimex, to which he responded that he would do so, through complaints prepared by his lawyers.
But you shouldn’t wait for the complaint, they will probably pressure you not to come forward. The opposition presidential candidate, Xóchitl Gálvez, yesterday filed a complaint with the National Electoral Institute once morest Sheinbaum, López Obrador and Morena, for alleged acts of corruption during the extinction of Notimex, in the context that at least 30 million pesos of liquidations will go to the official presidential campaign. Nobody has touched, except in the public arena, the Mayor, who should be the thread to be able to determine not only if the Ministry of Labor, of which he was head, and the Interior, where he currently operates, acted illegally in the process, and if the same mechanism has been used in other settlements.
The investigation is necessary because there is an open conflict of interest on the part of the secretary who has not wanted to be addressed by the president, which generates at least suspicion regarding her reasons. López Obrador is very close to the secretary’s mother, Bertha Luján, whose other daughter, Bertha Alcalde, he proposed first for the National Electoral Institute and later for the Supreme Court of Justice. Alcalde, the lawyer for the Notimex workers, was also an advisor to the Mexicana union, whose members received settlements for their services and the brand, for 815 million pesos.
Labor matters were handled by the Mayor in the Ministry of Labor, and during his administration very relevant awards were given for the amounts and cases, which generated public controversy, because his father won them all. When the Mayor arrived at the Ministry of the Interior, the controversial Notimex case, he went with her, where he once more decided in favor of those represented by his father. Martínez denounced that some settlements had amounts higher than what she had proposed and revealed that when she complained, officials at the Ministry of Labor said that the settlements were political.
The probable illegal financing of Sheinbaum’s campaign has hidden the head of the Hydra. Are there presidential instructions – because nothing in the government happens, as he claims, or moves without the authorization of López Obrador – so that multimillion-dollar liquidations are subject to ugly for electoral campaigns? Are there orders from the National Palace for these types of cases to be handled exclusively by the Mayor? Or is there a possibility, as some in the government think, that the secretary is so weak and manipulated by the father that she is acting without the president’s authorization?
Anything is possible in this government, but the temperature on illegal financing in Sheinbaum’s campaign is rising and rhetorical denials have not been enough to extinguish the prairie. Martínez, one of the most violent trolls that López Obrador had for almost five years, is now receiving the same disqualifying shrapnel from those with whom he shared a trench until recently. It is the same technique used in the National Palace to divert attention from complaints that have substance, which suggests that perhaps the truth is today on the side of the militant – journalist – and prompts the need to investigate the crimes that she has not stopped reporting. .
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