Archivado en: opinión | escrito por goleech | 05/01/2005 | 01:38

El diario The New York Times reconoció al Presidente Vicente Fox por las decisiones tomadas a mitad de semana en torno al caso del proceso de desafuero en contra del jefe de gobierno del DF, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

En México aún hay quienes están sumamente indignados porque el "delincuente" señor López seguirá en libertad ... el maldito Estado de Derecho no se respeta ... la autoridad pisoteó la propiedad de un particular ... etc. Pero por otra parte, la prensa internacional, duramente crítico del proceso político (y no jurídico) que llevó al desafuero de AMLO, reconoce el movimiento de Fox. El problema de fondo no es si se dejó, o no, de construir una calle en propiedad privada (todavía por vérse), o si el el jefe de gobierno (¿responsable directo de?) desacató una orden de un juez, no. El problema de fondo es que se pretendía sacar de la contienda electoral del 2006, por medio de un caso jurídico totalmente viciado, al puntero de las encuestas, miembro de un partido político importante de oposición (PRD), pero también, Jefe de Gobierno democráticamente electo.

Democracy in Mexico
Publicado en The New York Times
30 de abril de 2005

President Vicente Fox of Mexico made one of the most important speeches of his presidency this week when he promised that Mexico City's mayor, the front-runner in the presidential elections to be held next year, would not be barred from the race by a dubious legal move. By showing that a fair process is more important than his party's advantage, Mr. Fox acted like the leader of a real democracy.

The mayor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, will now certainly be the candidate of the leftist party in the July 2006 election. Before Mr. Fox spoke, this seemed unlikely. Mr. López Obrador faced a trial because his administration continued construction on a service road to a hospital after a judge ordered it stopped. The road was started by a previous administration, and the mayor's staff supervised the project. Yet Mexico's attorney general decided the matter warranted criminal charges - which would have barred the mayor from running for president.

Mr. Fox, who gets only one term, has now accepted the attorney general's resignation and promised that his replacement will find a way to let Mr. López Obrador be a candidate against Mr. Fox's conservative party and the PRI, the party that ruled Mexico for 71 years before Mr. Fox's election.

The decision was too long in coming, but it was still a vital one. Mr. Fox could have done lasting damage if he had muscled his party's chief opponent out of the race. That's how business used to be done in Mexico. So at this stage, nothing Mr. Fox does could be as important as choosing not to do things the old way.