Obliged to break the narco pact

Mexico was paralyzed due to the latest events where civilian groups made a macabre discovery: extermination camps, allegedly linked to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.

Like Nazis during the Third Reich, the drug lords show us why it is necessary to end them.

What was discovered is not something new, as it is well known that these criminal groups, intimately linked to the federal government, have been able to expand their domains and their way of instilling terror.

How could they not? If during former President López Obrador's government, the strategy -which was neither implicit nor subjective- was clear: for criminals, hugs, not bullets.

The result was the loss of sovereignty. Yes, the one that the 4T regime claims to defend, was handed over to organized crime, which according to information from civil society, holds power in 80% of Mexican territory.

The discovery of an extermination camp in Jalisco, where 400 pairs of shoes, school supplies, and letters from the alleged victims among other terrifying findings were found, is just the tip of the iceberg.

This terrible event could become the Ayotzinapa of Doctor Claudia Sheinbaum, who boasted in her inauguration, dared to say that with her "they all arrived." Unfortunately, many remained, if not in the camps, in the clandestine graves.

It is however important to recognize that, whether due to pressure from the USA, or as a kind of personal distancing from López Obrador, the Doctor has begun to change hugs for bullets.

Even without great results, this is a historic opportunity for the president of Mexico. She can continue with the legacy of destruction and the narco-pact celebrated between her predecessor and organized crime, or change the course of history.

Unfortunately for her, there is not much she could do. Even having the will, and contrary to what the government-paid narrative says, Sheinbaum is a weak president; she is not respected even by those in her own house, and she doesn't seem to want to slam her fist on the table to impose order.

We have seen it from protocol acts, where she has been rudely ignored by powerful colleagues of her movement, to the constant rejections of her initiatives in the Mexican Congress, controlled by her fellow party members.

The first female president of Mexico arrived with her hands tied, controlled by López Obrador's representatives, without room for maneuver. But she has a very powerful tool: being the head of the Federal Executive in the era of Donald Trump, who seeks more than drug lords, politicians linked to the narco.

Sheinbaum can write her own history by ending the narco-pact that delivers several of her party colleagues to American justice, and stand alongside women like Leona Vicario or Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez.

The Doctor has everything to become the great stateswoman she has convinced herself to be and figure among the great women in the history of Mexico.

Will she dare to cross that line and declare war on the powerful men of her movement? Will she be able to break the agreements that her political mentor made for her to come to power?

There is no time to lose. Claudia Sheinbaum is morally obligated to break the narco-pact.