Sheinbaum and peace: A mood that not everyone buys
It seems that Claudia Sheinbaum lives in a parallel Mexico, one of those alternative universes that Marvel likes so much. After the monumental mobilization of Generation Z that saturated the center of CDMX and made it clearer than an Instagram story that people are fed up, our president came out with a gem worthy of a meme: in Mexico there is peace. Yes, you read that right. Peace. The same one you feel when you try to renew your passport online.
In his now traditional mañanera, that morning ritual that combines official news with a touch of reality show, Sheinbaum Pardo dropped the bomb from the National Palace. According to her, violence in the country is being addressed with the same effectiveness with which Netflix recommends a series you have already seen. And in case anyone doubted his commitment, he added the million-dollar phrase: “if we have to dedicate more to it, we are going to dedicate more to it.” Quite a geopolitical strategy, we have no doubt.
Reality is optional, choose yours
But the ‘iconic’ moment, the one that really made us all put down our cell phones, was his sociological analysis of social networks. With the wisdom of an aunt who has just discovered Facebook, the president diagnosed: “If you are on the networks all day, boy, you can get upset.” And his magic recipe for national mental health was, pay attention: “you have to go out into the street, talk to people, talk, listen.” In other words, basically, the solution for those who protest insecurity is… to stop protesting and start talking. With who? With the same neighbor who just broke into your car? A real revelation.
In the Treasury Roominternational agencies of reporting the youth march as if there was “chaos.” Because, clearly, thousands of people demanding security in a country mired in violence is just a fashion show. To reinforce his point, he used the strongest argument he could find: that the Zócalo was filled with a danzón festival and the Centro Historico with El Buen Fin buyers. Nothing says “nothing happens here” like prioritizing ballroom dancing and Mexican Black Friday deals over citizen demands for a less bloody future. Priorities, friends.
In the end, the message is clear: peace is a matter of perspective. You can see it from the comfort of your palace, or you can try to find it while avoiding certain streets after 6 pm. One reality is that of networks, where citizens document the security crisis. The other is the official reality, where everything is under control and danzón reigns supreme. You choose which one you want to live in, but according to Sheinbaum, one of them is a disorder. Guess which one.
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