The former president Ernesto Zedillo (1994-2000) pointed out that the only privilege that has been lost in recent years is that of live in a democratic country.
During an interview with the Spanish newspaper The Worldthe former president rejected the president’s criticism Claudia Sheinbaum and said that since before AMLO would remove the pension to former presidentshe had already renounced that benefit.
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“I gave up my pension many years ago. life of former presidentsI have my job at the university. The only privilege I have lost is that of being a citizen of a democratic country. And that privilege López Obrador and Claudia Sheinbaum took it from me.
AMLO dedicated himself to dismantling institutions and Sheinbaum is his accomplice
The former president and now professor at Yale University He said that in the last days of his mandate, López Obrador dedicated himself to “dismantling institutions” and described the president Sheinbaum as “complicit” in the destruction of Mexican democracy”.
Zedillo He stated that so far in the Governments of the Fourth Transformation, the division of powers was destroyed and checks and balances, as well as judicial independence.
He considered that the election of judges of last June 1st was a “farce typical of autocratic regimes and also made a fraudulent election, and to shield all that, Sheinbaum has for practical purposes eliminated the Supreme Court as Constitutional Court”.
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Another of the former president’s criticisms is the militarization of the country and what to include Armed Forces in economic activities “is a way to gain their complicity to stay in poweras seen in Cuba, Venezuela or Egypt. And that is very serious.”
He stated that in practice there was also the cancellation of the right to protection“nothing is new in this framework, it is enough to take a tour of the authoritarian regimes throughout history. The only difference in other experiences in Latin America is that now they disguise themselves as democrats and make a Constitution tailored to them.”
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