The new script: money without intermediaries
The scene repeats itself: protests on the roads, social pressure, urgent demands. But Claudia Sheinbaum is writing a different act for this play. Faced with the mobilizations of transporters and farmers, his message was crystal clear: there will be dialogue, but public money will no longer pass through the hands of the leaders.
“The support will be directly to the producer. It is not given through organizations… that is over,” declared the president in her morning conference.
It is a high-caliber political move. Dismantle the old machinery where the resource reached a leadership that then distributed it—or not—among its bases. Now, according to Sheinbaum, the support goes directly to the pocket of the person who plants or drives.
A strike that lost strength
Yesterday an indefinite national strike began. The drums of ANTAC and the National Front for the Rescue of the Countryside sounded loudly. They called for action against insecurity, skyrocketing costs and the agricultural crisis.
But in the afternoon, the scenario was different. Of eleven initial lockdowns in nine states, only five remained. In Guanajuato and Baja California some points were still closed, but with alternative routes operating.
“It really wasn’t what they said they were going to do,” Sheinbaum said of the protests, downplaying their impact.
The government strategy seems to have two legs: not giving in to pressure from the top while showing specific programs such as the ‘Bean Plan’ in Zacatecas, where the collection was doubled by working with farmers.
“It doesn’t matter what political party you are,” the president concluded, drawing a new map where party acronyms are not a ticket to access resources.
The final message is dramatic: the theater where leaders were protagonists receiving checks is over. Now, according to this presidential script, support comes without filters or intermediaries. The question that remains is whether this cast change will calm the protests or if it will generate new conflicts in this complex national drama.
