In recent weeks, the Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has seemed somewhat fed up with having to refer day in and day out to the statements of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso. Even before her speech, Sheinbaum already said that she was not very convinced whether it was “worth it” to respond to Ayuso after she said that the country was a “narco-state” in a video sent to an event at Mar-a-Lago, the residence of US President Donald Trump. Now, despite the exhaustion, with her last trip the Madrid president has achieved the opposite of what she sought. Ayuso, but in view of the reactions it has also put the Mexican opposition in a bind.
There is hardly anyone in Mexico who views Ayuso’s visit favorably. Even the most conservative try to downplay his lack of wisdom to try to put Sheinbaum back on target. “The BREAD [la formación política que invitó a la presidenta regional] was entangled in the atrocious visit of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who He came to Mexico to do his specialty: scandalize. The PAN members thus lost the perfect momentum to draw the sword and stab it at Morena. [el partido de Sheinbaum]”, .
The analyst Víctor Beltri speaks along the same lines, where he assures that “The Mexican opposition plays politics like a headless chicken”. “The president [Sheinbaum] He was between a rock and a hard place, as he nervously tried to deny in some morning conference; The Government seemed to be suffocating between the speech that corresponded to the moment and the defense of the previous Administration, until the fresh air arrived that the visit of Isabel Díaz Ayuso gave it,” writes Beltri, who defines the PP leader as “a political opportunist, lacking strategic vision”, “scandalous, polarizing” and “reckless”.
It is not easy, perhaps impossible, to find a Mexican political analyst who celebrates the arrival of Ayuso to the country. In Millenniumthe general editorial director of the media group, Óscar Cedillo, He went to Mexico “to commit one of the most frequent mistakes of a certain Spanish political class: talking about our country without understanding it”. “His visit ended up becoming a diplomatic and cultural disaster. […] The arrogance was proportional to the ignorance. Ayuso arrived in Mexico with the tone of someone who believes he is coming to explain his own history to Mexicans. And that usually goes wrong,” writes Cedillo, who concludes: “Serious relations between nations are not built from arrogance or from historical complexes. Much less from ignorance disguised as political courage. “To catch the wind.”
Also in Millenniumthe journalist and writer Braulio Peralta, for having “united the vast majority of Mexicans.” Peralta agrees that His trip only served to “sink the minority of the PAN right”: “They accidentally scored a goal that predicts their future in the next elections. Nobody boycotted her in any of the events she carried out. Solita fell with her old, colonialist, classist, racist speech. Saying what she said here is like taking bullets in the brain. The repentance of those who were portrayed with her must be with sadness included.”
The Mexican Government, of course, does not waste the opportunity to reiterate Ayuso’s failure. In The Herald of Mexicothe general director of the Institute of Security and Social Services of Workers in the Sheinbaum Government, Marí Batres Guadarrama, in Mexico. “The colonialist pretensions of the president of the Community of Madrid met with the rejection of the people. […] No, Mrs. Ayuso. Cortés is not a Mexican hero. It is a symbol of greed, dispossession and genocide. Values of Francoism and the Spanish extreme right. Yes indeed”asserts Batres.
Perhaps the best summary of the celebrated tour has been made by the Mexican Agustín Benítez Ochoa. “I wish more, many more, Mrs. Díaz Ayuso would come to Mexico: it strengthened the Government of Claudia Sheinbaum in an important way; He ridiculed the miserable far-right in the country and the not-so-ultra; It embarrassed its millionaire sponsors and gained strong support in Spain for the Mexican Government and people.” Without a doubt, a victory…
