I see a lot of criticism and mockery directed at everything the 4T (Fourth Transformation) does, but I only have one question:
If they were so good at doing things, why didn't they ever do them?
If Mexico had been a manufacturing powerhouse in the automotive industry for decades, why was a serious strategy never implemented to leverage that experience and Mexican talent to develop its own technology, brands, or designs, as countries like China, India, or South Korea did?
When there was supposedly abundance and economic growth to spare, why didn't they take advantage of it to invest massively in infrastructure, trains, airports, technology, research, health, and education?
Why wasn't a single refinery built in four decades?
Or at least, why didn't they renovate and modernize the ones already built from the 1970s and earlier, and why did they let them fall to 35% of their capacity?
What was done with the oil surpluses from those years, and why was Mexico always behind? With just one mega-project of national impact per six-year term, one of those they claim to know how to do, Mexico would be a different place.
They criticize like crabs for Mexico now undertaking the infrastructure projects, supercomputers, trains, cars, microprocessors, etc., that should have been done earlier, and it even seems they want everything to go wrong.
They criticize social programs, saying that instead, the government should create the conditions so they aren't necessary, but it turns out those conditions were never created during the six six-year terms of neoliberalism they had.
On the contrary, they left the minimum wage at $88 pesos, devaluations, gas price hikes, persistent poverty, violence, cartels, backwardness...
And of course, the current government should be criticized and held accountable, but those criticisms must be well-founded and based on reality. And if, because you don’t like the current government, you criticize everything without properly informing yourself before giving your opinion, and you wish that everything goes wrong for them, well, that says more about you than about the things you claim to be pointing out.
(Memo Rodríguez… Villa de Alverez, Colima) Machine translation from Facebook.
. . .why the US ruling psychopaths would want to coup Mexico. Well, the biggest reason is that according to the Donroe Doctrine, we own Mexico (and pretty much everything in the Western hemisphere). We want to steal / pillage / pilfer the resources of Latin America and use them as a baseball bat against the cranium of China in the great power conflict.So there’s that.
Right on, Bro!