Civic events are part, let’s say, of the construction of a collective memory. And usually the State Government through the Directorate of Civic Development organizes the events. However, I do not know if due to their ideology or justifying themselves by the pandemic, so far this year they have not been carried out. In some, the state government only brings floral offerings; in others, like yesterday’s, about Alberto Carrera Torres, they didn’t even do that. That yes, already the municipal government headed by Eduardo Gattas put the batteries.
There was no event for Pedro José Méndez. The liberals organized themselves to commemorate General Vicente Guerrero and I was surprised that on the 14th I received an invitation to General Alberto Carrera Torres, a revolutionary, who opposed Victoriano Huerta, but who from the beginning intended to be the lawyer of the poor. And this condition, unwittingly, reminded me of the current President, whose premise is: First the poor.
MUNICIPAL TRIBUTE.
The event for General Alberto Carrera Torres brought together the council and municipal public servants, as well as distinguished liberals. It was a simple event: the authorities and special guests were presented; Francisco Ramos, the chronicler of the city, was in charge of making known the biography, the details, of the life of the person who, back in Tula, was awarded the title of “Lawyer of the poor.” Three guards of honor were made: the first, to the municipal authorities, then to the municipal servants and at the end the group of liberals present.
It was, indeed, a simple civic event. It calls, yes, the attention of how the state government does not participate; this, makes us think, has a meaning, a reason: the difference between the two rulers, who are from different political parties and who, in this context, have had institutional friction, where it is evident that both collide. I see, in all this, that there is no institutionality and less, let’s say, the respect that must prevail for the sake of good government.
TRANSCENDENCE AND VALIDITY.
Professor José Dolores Ruiz Gómez notes, in a subsequent conversation, that heroes, whether national or local, are valid to the extent that their life transcends and their postulates and actions are valid. In this case, it was up to Roberto Collado, the young filmmaker whose production includes a documentary about the Tamaulipas hero, to highlight the validity of knowing the life and work of those who have been, with their actions, decisive in the construction of actions that they have favored the integration and direction, in this case, of the entity… of course, at a specific time.
Nor how to deny that Alberto Carrera Torres is valid at the present time. The socioeconomic conditions, of poverty and marginalization, that gave life to the Mexican revolution; to the fight against the usurper Victoriano Huerta, they are still present. His attitude of defending the poor, after participating in the deed of the revolution, leads us to consider that in the present the attitude and struggle of the 4T are valid: neoliberalism created new rich, like the Porfiriato created new potentates and ranchers.
INTEGRITY AND CONGRUENCE.
I have been attending civic events organized by the State Government for more than 30 years. And usually the official speaker, by practice, is the governor, if it is an important event as a tribute to Benito Juárez or the promulgation of the Constitution; and, if not the governor, an official representative. The tone in these events is to ponder the political-ideological attributes, or his actions: to say, of Juárez, some of his most connoted phrases, those that have to do with democracy, with public servants, with the Justice.
The point is that, for years, we observed that there was no congruence between the actions of the ruler and the political-ideological discourse raised. For something, today, there are ex-governors subject to criminal justice, while others are accused of committing crimes, actions that are at odds with the law. In a few words, we are witnesses of how the ruler has no qualms about covering himself with an ideological cloak, provided by history and the past… but that, in fact, he tells us the opposite.
GO INTO HISTORY.
One day President AMLO was asked, in a morning, if he wanted to go down in history as the best President and he said yes. In practice, it’s over: it’s hard to forget that I fought for 18 years to defeat a system, the neoliberal one with its rules; For this reason, now as President, as leader of the 4T, he seeks to transform not only political life, but also that which has to do with economic, educational, democratic structures, etc., to become a benchmark for struggle and transformation. . He is, without a doubt: the people’s lawyer.
Meliton Guevara Castillo
Degree in Public Administration (UAT), Doctor in Communication and Journalism (University of Santiago de Compostela).
Professor Emeritus of the UAT. Leader of the Research Group “Democracy and Political Communication” of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences (Victoria, Tam.,).
Representative in Tamaulipas of the National Network of Researchers on the Quality of Democracy.
He writes the political column FROM THIS CORNER, since 1984 in El Diario de Cd. Victoria and currently in Hoy Tamaulipas.