The rhetoric of “Mexican humanism” crashes brutally against the asphalt of our federal highways. While the end of corruption is proclaimed from the platforms of the National Palace, the reality experienced by thousands of citizens—and especially our compatriots returning with the fruits of their labor in the United States—is that of a predatory state. Today, the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), under the protective shadow of Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration and the rise of Ernestina Godoy, has become the most lucrative checkpoint of impunity.
It is an unspeakable infamy. Mexicans returning home to reunite with their families are met not with security, but with the voraciousness of agents of the Federal Ministerial Police. These officers, far from investigating high-impact crimes, have specialized in the art of extortion and dispossession. Their belongings are confiscated, irregularities are fabricated against them in procedures that aren’t even their responsibility—like the Carta Porte supplement—and they are held in the sun until exhaustion or fear forces them to hand over the dollars they earned with so much sweat.
The case of the Cosamaloapan-Tinaja highway in Veracruz is a monument to this decadence. It’s an “illegal customs checkpoint” where the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) operates with complete impunity. This isn’t a coincidence; it’s a system. The presence of the so-called “madrinas” (civilians who act as the agents’ enforcers) demonstrates that we’re not dealing with “bad apples,” but rather with an institutionalized criminal structure that enjoys the complicit silence of those in high places.
Where is the “firm hand” against corruption that Sheinbaum promised? Where is Ernestina Godoy’s supposed integrity? Her time at the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office left a trail of judicial selectivity and cronyism that now seems to be spreading to the federal level with even greater force. The appointment of unconditional supporters to key justice positions only serves to shield those in power, not to protect citizens who are robbed in official patrol cars in the middle of the night.
The 4T (Fourth Transformation) has betrayed its own maxim of “don’t steal, don’t lie, and don’t betray.” They steal under the protection of a badge; they lie when they say extortion has ended; and they betray the people who believed in profound change. As long as Sheinbaum and Godoy continue to pretend that “an investigation is underway,” the death checkpoints will remain, in La Tinaja, in Sonora, in Tamaulipas, emptying the suitcases of those who have sacrificed the most for this country.
We don’t want phone numbers to report abuse after it has already happened; we want the police forces to be cleaned up. But asking for honesty from a system that thrives on opacity is, nowadays, like asking for the impossible.
Source: resistenciaveracruzanaregionsur
