Now the gringos are worried; we Mexicans popularly include Canadians in the term gringo; seeing the progress of the constitutional reforms promoted by the federal executive and especially the one directed to the judicial power that will establish the popular election of the ministers of the court and federal judges, considering that it puts their independence at risk and would encourage corruption, thus becoming a serious danger to democracy in Mexico and trade relations between the countries, as declared by the ambassadors of the United States and Canada. The response was not long in coming, knowing that the opinion was not expressed in a personal capacity, but comes from their respective governments, but without delay President López Obrador and the president-elect disavowed them and the Mexican government issued diplomatic notes to protest the interference in the internal affairs of our country, in addition to pausing the relationship with the ambassadors, whatever that means.
Although he did not refer to them specifically and it has not been a topic much discussed by the national media, Ken Salazar’s statement mentions the importance of maintaining strong autonomous organizations, with which he was evidently thinking of the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) and the Federal Economic Competition Commission (CFCE), whose disappearance would affect Mexico’s full compliance with the T-MEC since the treaty includes them as indispensable to ensure the smooth running of trade relations between its three signatory members and whose announced disappearance, according to the initiative, would affect its observance by Mexico.
With such an expression, the ambassador predicts, for those who know, a tightening of the financial markets towards Mexico, since companies from the United States and Canada with interests in our country see the guarantees of their investments disappear, which they already felt were at risk with the excessive growth of organized crime and therefore of the violence that seems uncontrollable and, in the worst cases, tolerated by the Mexican state. In this sense, the most important media outlets in the United States have spoken out against the reforms, which they consider a poisoned inheritance from López Obrador for his successor, who will begin her administration against the current on the many fronts opened at the end of the current administration and which she will have to attend to as a priority, taking time away from her own government projects, that is, from now on she is imposing the agenda.
As if to refute those who originally thought that Ken Salazar’s statement had been an involuntary imprudence and that there was no doubt, the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate confirmed the concern about judicial reform, as well as the extinction of autonomous constitutional bodies, making special mention of the National Institute of Access to Information, considering transparency as a distinctive sign of democracies, so that if the reform were approved as it is proposed it could contradict the “commitments assumed in the Trade Agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada, whose review is scheduled for 2026.” Without a doubt, the message has been given and,
Forewarned…forearmed.
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