Tranquility or official narrative?
Claudia Sheinbaum went out this Wednesday to sell calm. After the operation that ended with Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, ‘El Mencho’, the president painted a picture of total control. “The entire republic and particularly Jalisco is calm,” he assured from the National Palace.
But between lines, the gaps in the story are more eloquent than the statements. The president herself did not know one basic fact: whether the remains of the leader of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel had already been claimed by his family. “We would have to ask the Prosecutor’s Office,” he said with a vagueness that makes noise.
“We would have to ask the Prosecutor’s Office what would happen if they were not claimed”
While talking about coordination and burned vehicles collected, the security reinforcement speaks another language. He announced the sending of 2,500 more elements of the National Guard to the metropolitan area of Guadalajara. Reinforcements for an already existing tranquility? Logic suffers.
The narrative is classic: successful operation, close collaboration with Governor Pablo Lemus, normality restored. Even classes resume. The script is well rehearsed.
But memory is stubborn. These episodes usually have less photogenic later chapters: reckonings, shifts of power, violence that mutates but does not disappear. Declaring premature peace smacks more of image management than a forensic analysis of reality.
Sheinbaum closed with the promise of constant coordination “for any problem.” A tacit recognition that problems will surely come. The announced tranquility seems like a wish more than a diagnosis.
