The 40 migrants murdered inside a prison in Ciudad Juárez, 44 days ago, have become an anecdote with Alzheimer’s. This is how President López Obrador must have thought during the conversation he had with Joe Biden.
Happy, both, agreed that Mexico will continue to be the US migratory backyard. Undocumented migrants will be expelled to Mexico as if this country had the capacity to keep them alive.
For the Mexican president, his migration strategy has a “humanist dimension” component.
Describing the miserable and cruel treatment that the 40 migrants received as “humanist” cannot have a polysemic nature: Is it a joke or an insult to the 40 families of the fatalities?
There is no doubt: it is an insult.
The Government of El Salvador asked if after the tragedy there would be a sanction for those responsible for the crimes. There will be saplings to plant, just in case. They must have responded.
The president of Mexico does not have time to dedicate to this type of tragedies. If anything, he uses migrants as tokens to trade with Joe Biden. His thing, what he enjoys about him, are his press conferences where he dictates his wishes and describes his country.
It’s been 44 days now and no top-level official has resigned. Nor will they.
excelsior it was the only Mexican newspaper that put faces to the dead of Ciudad Juárez. On the front page of the April 10 issue, we met the faces of 38 of them.
For example, we saw the photograph of Miguel Rojché Zapalu. In a note by journalist Andrés Becerril, he describes Rojché as originally from San Pedro Cutzán, department of Suchitepéquez, Guatemala.
“One day Miguel arrived and told us (his family) that he wanted to go to the United States; So we told him what was he going to do there; even if it was the little he was earning, he could be here -he earned 95 quetzales a day, equivalent to about 220 Mexican pesos- and he said: “no, I already decided because my daughters (…) I would like my daughters to have a degree ”.
These words were mentioned by Sonia Petrona Rojché Petzey, Miguel’s first cousin, to Andrés Becerril.
Biden and AMLO are jointly responsible for what happened in Ciudad Juárez.
But Mexico endorsed what Marcelo Ebrard offered to Mike Pompeo on November 15, 2018: submission.
For humanitarian reasons, Mexico should not receive migrants because it cannot guarantee their safety. But they are gambling chips from a casino. This is how Donald Trump sees them.
This is how Joe Biden and AMLO see them.
