In July 2000, the Mexican people watched an old repressed wish come true. The ruling party PRI, which had been in power for more than 70 years was finally voted out. It was what it seemed then, the first truly democratic election in Mexican recent history. I can say all Mexican people found ourselves in a mixture of euphoric-hopeful state. Some predicted the country would finally become part of the so called "first world."
We were quite afar from the mean truth. A couple of years later it was discovered that the long awaited campaign had been economically supported illegaly. And little by little we have come to see our brand new president become, from a hero who had rebeled against the status quo to a lazy ignorant who did not have idea of what he had done, to finally become a hystheric little man whose whims cannot be achieved even with the tricks he himself had offered to make disappear.
Many have speculated about the reasons of this slow transformation. Everyone spouts opinions here and there. But no one has been able to get to agree with anybody else.
However there are facts that obody can deny:
1. The first lady's pretension of becoming the first female president. With a terribly designed disguise of feminism, trying to turn the very necessary social policies this country needs, into plain charity labor. Which could only be performed by a priviledged minority who would disguise of benefactors, while using their altruistic images to make publicity for their own high profit businesses.
2. The excellent proposal of the "Ley de transparencia" which delivered hope to many that the government would not be able to get their pockets full, out of the minority who pays taxes. Stopping so, a practice that had been common all over our history. Pitifully, it just turned out to be a make up since it preserves the rulers' right to decide which information should be kept or else. Nowadays, this law forces the authorities to give you the information you request only if it has been registered and kept.
3. The terrible ignorance at offering to solve the historic problem of the indigenous communities in the State of Chiapas in 15 minutes only to impact the media. Four years later, this problem is simply denied and called "a matter of the past."
4. The promise to observe the law to preserve the so expensive democratic system that led him to power. Only to use it, years later to get rid of his political oppositors.
The list may go for pages and pages. I am only including a few. The fact is that our president frowns in disgust at the slightest mention of a problem, and just denies it exists without listening or paying attention to the complainers. He seems sick and tired of people who asks about his campaign promises, forgetting that it was their votes that made him who he is today. Only four years later.