In Mexico, politics has an admirable talent: when the country is burning, the first thing it does is look for someone to blame. This week, the favorite villain is called Grupo Salinas. It doesn't matter if public debt skyrockets, if Pemex is a terminally ill patient, or if the mega-projects cost three times what was promised. No. The problem —according to them— is that businessman who dares to remind the government that arithmetic is not ideology and that payrolls are paid with real money, not with speeches... and even less with taxes that squeeze people.
The letter published by Grupo Salinas is not a simple corporate statement. It is, at its core, a white-glove slap to the official narrative. "In the face of lies, we will always respond with the truth," they say. It hurts, because the truth here is that while companies negotiate debts, meet their creditors, and keep investing, the State manages failures... and on top of that, boasts that "everything is fine even though its own data refutes it."
The playbook is predictable: the classic strategy of the tropical, conservative, liberfascist-phobic left: fabricate an enemy, accuse them of being a tax evader, demonize them in the public square, and, in passing, disguise their own inefficiency as a heroic struggle (like the cotton-headed one). It is almost comical: the government that has indebted the country the most in decades and has already squandered the whole cake now pretends to give lessons on fiscal responsibility. It is as if an alcoholic were teaching sobriety courses in the middle of a bar... with his fly down, urinated, and with Tonayán in hand.
However, what is interesting here is not just the local fight. There is a global context: in Latin America, every time the left feels cornered by its own red numbers, it resorts to the same script. Venezuela, Argentina, Nicaragua, Bolivia... the formula is identical: control the narrative, persecute the inconvenient businessman, and build a populist epic where the State is always the hero, even if it can't pay the bill like that annoying friend at the bar who asks you to buy him a beer. Yes, the money always comes from the same place: from people's pockets (surprise, the government doesn't generate wealth).
The problem is that reality doesn't care about ideology. Bonds mature, debt accumulates, investors leave. What is left? The same as always: raise taxes (now for gamers), further indebt the country, and shout from the podium that "the people rule by doing a cheap cleansing to empathize." What they do not say is that the people are just extras, because the real show is keeping alive a bureaucratic apparatus that only knows how to spend stupidly... after all, it is not their money.
Meanwhile, the private sector operates with a different logic: training models, life and career plans, clear objectives, profitability, productivity, real incentives, constant training, and teams that produce or are out on the street (not all companies, do not start whining). That is the unforgivable heresy: proving with facts that there is another way to organize a country, one that doesn't need eternal subsidies or daily speeches.
