Deep Dive from @elreportero | Episode 4 | Morena is right: is a coup d'état

El Reportero

What Mexico was missing: a constitutional crisis following a coup d'état.

I agree with the members of Morena; they are right when they say there was a coup d'état—but it was perpetrated by them!

The coup began with the hijacking of the National Electoral Institute (INE). Despite all legal and illegal measures, the leadership of the INE, through trickery and schemes, fell into the hands of Morena.

Next came the Electoral Tribunal, with the plot openly and brazenly acknowledged by López Obrador himself when he refused to appoint the two missing ministers "to avoid the appointment of conservative ministers." Those three were the ones who carried out the coup against Magistrate Reyes Mondragón, handing the presidency of the Electoral Tribunal to a loyalist of Morena, Mónica Soto Fragoso.

After that, it was easy to seize the Chamber of Deputies, magically turning 54% into 74%.

In the Senate, things were even simpler, as Morena only had to dig into the muck to find the most foul-smelling figures in the form of the Yunes to secure the votes, even kidnapping an elderly man to twist the arm of another senator from Movimiento Ciudadano.

And so, the judicial reform passed quietly, riddled with vices and drafting errors, and was already published in the Official Gazette, flagrantly violating the separation of powers by attempting to turn the Judiciary into an appendage of the Executive.

This forces the Supreme Court of Justice to review the many comments and criticisms raised regarding the constitutional interpretation of the reform, even though it has already been published in the Official Gazette. No matter what the sycophants say, no matter how much the loyalists bark, no matter what the hardcore supporters shout and spit, it doesn't matter. At this moment, the Supreme Court of Justice is not beholden to what is written in the judicial reform. It is its duty to review the constitutional amendments, even to approve them, but only if they do not violate principles that are above everything else: human rights and civil rights.

What would happen if the Supreme Court finds that the constitutional amendment does indeed violate the principles of access and balance for citizens to obtain swift justice? It would demand the process to be corrected, and then Morena, starting with the president, would reject the Supreme Court of Justice: a lovely constitutional crisis.

The mere mention of this makes Mexicans—and particularly the markets—tremble in fear.

And there is something the coup carried out by Morena didn’t foresee: the time between publication and implementation.

Eight months is a long time for many things to happen.

Because the constitutional amendment to the Judiciary violates the fundamental right to impartial justice for the governed. International treaties signed by Mexico instruct that our country must be a nation of laws with an independent judicial system.

Morena will always have its orangutans ready to make fools of themselves as often as they are told, such as Ms. 'learning curve,' Lenia Batres Guadarrama, who shamelessly was one of the first to bark 'coup d'état,' an utterly ridiculous outburst.

But looking at it without passion, Batres Guadarrama is right: it is a coup d'état—but perpetrated by Morena—a constitutional crisis courtesy of the Morena party.