By Olivier Acuña
Donald Trump is about to address the CPAC, during which speakers have lauded him. What? Why would you laud this racist, liar, conman, sexual predator who took Washington D.C. to its knees through incitement. And all the while he was watching the violence from the comfort of his home laughing with enormous cynicism.
Yes, I’m hugely disappointed to see how he got away with literally murder. And he continues to spread the false notion that he won the elections. He didn’t even win back in 2016, not the popular vote. Why would the Republican Party continue to back this piece of nothing good? And all the popular support behind him is also indication of decadence, because that is the only rational explanation.
And then just south of the border we have President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador who has millions of people mesmerized, hypnotized, stupidized, if that word even exists, but you get what I’m saying, right? The guy rose to power after two failed attempts promising to fight corruption and insecurity.
Well, not one nor the other. Mexico is today one of the most dangerous countries in the world and the most dangerous for journalist, even more so than in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. The last two years in a row have been the most violent in the country’s history with over 70,000 homicides combined.
Here is a man who wields his power at his convenience. The other day he called out by the ASF, Mexico’s federal financial audit agency, because there are nearly $20 billion missing. He lashed out saying his figures were different and the right ones, the accurate ones. He launched an “investigation” into the ASF for what he calls irresponsible financial audit reporting. Yes, I’m disappointed because that is no way to fight corruption.
You do not fight corruption bringing back by political force a former Secretary of Defense, Salvador Cienfuegos, detained in the United States under drug trafficking charges. The general was brought back in a private jet and freed immediately. What? This scandalous event follows the shameless liberation of Ovidio Guzman, the son of the most powerful drug traffickers in the world, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
Yes, I’m disappointed with a man who says he’s going to fight corruption and the first thing he does is name Marcelo Ebrard, secretary of Foreign Relations. That appointment came after he was hiding in Paris fearing prosecution for fraud when he was head of the Mexico City government. Lopez Obrador also brought back Napoleon Gomez Urrutia from exile in Canada.
This conman was hiding in Canada because he stole over 100 million dollars from the Mexican Miner’s Labor Union. He also named Manuel Bartlett Diaz as the head of Federal Electricity Commission. Manuel is considered one of AMLO’s most contentious officials.
Well, let me say only this: that piece of no good led the massive 1988 presidential elections fraud. Those elections were won by AMLO’s then political buddy, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, who does not deserve my respect either anyway because he accepted money in exchange for allowing Carlos Salinas de Gortari rise to power.
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