Xóchitl Gálvez arrives in Los Angeles, but ignores the majority of the community

Dr. Sheinbaum's presence is urgently needed in the city with the most Mexicans outside of Mexico.

By Juan Jose Gutierrez | La Opinion | SEP. 27, 2023 | Photo by Reform Agency

Senator Xóchitl Gálvez, standard-bearer of the Frente Amplio Por México, will be in Southern California on September 28 and 29. This organization is made up of the Institutional Revolutionary Parties (PRI), National Action (PAN) and Democratic Revolution (PRD).

Senator Gálvez will have meetings with leaders of Federations, some local authorities, a small group of farm workers, some "dreamers" and with local media communicators.

I have no doubt that, when he meets with the farm workers, most of them, if not everyone, will have no idea about the identity of the Senator. I believe that the main purpose of the candidate for the presidency of Mexico is to take a couple of photographs and videos that will serve as advertising for the eventual campaign as the candidate for the Broad Front for Mexico.

That same scheme has been carried out by PRI and PAN officials or legislators in the past. They portray themselves with members of the community, in agricultural areas, or in workplaces, to "recons record" their axiological ties with the people.

Former Head of Government of Mexico City and presidential candidate for the Morena party, Claudia Sheinbaum, speaks during a press conference in Mexico City on September 7, 2023. Two women will compete for the Mexican presidency for the first time next year after the ruling party on Wednesday named former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum as its candidate. Sheinbaum, a 61-year-old scientist by training, will face Xochitl Galvez, an outspoken businesswoman and senator with Indigenous roots selected to represent an opposition coalition, the Broad Front for Mexico. (Photo by Claudio CRUZ / AFP) (Photo by CLAUDIO CRUZ/AFP via Getty Images)
Claudia Sheinbaum, champion of Morena for the presidency of Mexico.

Something similar will happen when on Thursday, the 28th of this month at 4:00 p.m., at the facilities of the city council of the city of Santa Monica, a group of "dreamers" will "converse" with Senator Gálvez. The ritual will be repeated, photos and videos will be taken all this to later adorn your advertising for the elections of June 2, 2024.

The highlight will be when, behind closed doors, 20 leaders of organizations and federations in Mexico meet with her to present petitions related to the areas of health, public positions for Mexicans residing abroad, more budget for the Mexican consulates in the United States and the simplification of the process to vote from abroad. Of course, the request that will be made most vehemently will be the restitution of the 3 X 1 program that was eradicated, due to the level of corruption, already some years ago by the President of the Republic, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Two relevant issues emerge from all this. First, that none of these activities were held in the city of Los Angeles, but in Santa Monica and Oxnard. These cities are located at a distance of 30 minutes and one hour from Los Angeles, respectively. The main reason to avoid venturing into angelic territory, is not to provoke demonstrations against it since in this area the organizations of Morena and López Obrador groups proliferate, committed to the 4T.

Secondly, it is very clear the interest of the standard-bearer of conservatism in Mexico whose only interest is to have migrant leaders of the Mexican right as interlocutors. In other words, as well as in March of last year, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard visited the city of Los Angeles, held a private meeting with migrant leaders of the PAN, PRD and the PRI and deliberately excluded the leaders of Morena. Senator Gálvez's visit and agenda in Southern California should be interpreted as actions to follow up on the policy set by Foreign Minister Ebrard.

With it will be the same leaders who met with Ebrard, staunch enemies of López Obrador and 4T, not now, but for at least almost four decades.

That is, at that time, the outstanding thing about the former chancellor's visit to Los Angeles was that his authentic political orientation was clearly revealed. With another political face, the Frente Amplio por México, Senator Gálvez more crudely reveals the same policy.

This is the key reason why the majority of the Mexican and migrant people have closed ranks with Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, especially after Ebrard's questions of the survey won by Sheinbaum so broadly that it leaves no room for the slightest doubt.

The former Chancellor is determined to delegitimize the survey and question Morena's moral validity, although reality itself shows his insane ambition. Here are the approaches: What interests are behind Ebrard? What interests do you have in the United States and Mexico?

Faced with this political situation, it is urgent that Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, who in the logic of history is called to be the first president of Mexico, be present in these directions as soon as possible. Nothing and no one is going to stop it.

The time has come to attend to our repeated invitation to visit us in the City of Los Angeles and with your presence promote the unity of the people of Mexico on both sides of the border. She will accredit the solid unity of the Morenoite and López Obrador organizations in the American Union. It is a fundamental asset that will lubricate the fortress that will take it to the levels that the next Head of the Mexican nation deserves.