The daughter of Campeche Governor Layda Sansores San Román has requested political asylum in the Netherlands, arguing that she fears for her safety due to her documentary work on injustices in Mexico. Layda María Esther Negrete Sansores, known for her participation in projects such as “Reasonable Doubt,” decided to leave the country because she believes her journalistic work exposes her to reprisals. The scene is symbolic and deeply contradictory: while the daughter seeks refuge in Europe to continue exercising her right to investigate and denounce injustices, her mother, from a position of power, has become one of the most aggressive voices against the critical press in Campeche.
This is not merely a difference of ideals between mother and daughter, but rather the starkest portrait of a political double standard. Layda Sansores presents herself as a defender of social causes, but in reality, she has used state institutions to legally persecute journalists who question her administration. There are well-known cases of local journalists facing lawsuits, smear campaigns, and even leaks from within the state government itself. The governor of Campeche, who claims to govern with transparency, has made media harassment a daily practice, turning her official platforms into channels for attacking the press that is critical of her.
Meanwhile, her daughter, from across the ocean, seeks refuge in a country that does protect freedom of expression—the very freedom that is withering in Campeche under the shadow of power. The paradox is brutal: a governor from the Morena party whose daughter flees the country for practicing critical journalism, while she criminalizes those who do the same within her state. History reveals the moral failure of a political project that proclaims itself libertarian but cannot tolerate the truth when it exposes its true nature. The exile of Layda Sansores’ daughter is not only a family tragedy; it is a mirror reflecting the erosion of freedoms in Morena’s Mexico.
Source: tribunacampeche
