What was meant to be a show of strength ended up revealing weakness. And not just in the plaza, but throughout the chain of command.
The version circulating in political circles is clear: Claudia Sheinbaum is angry, very angry. Because what was promised as a national mobilization ended up being a lackluster, poorly managed, and, above all, empty local event.
It wasn’t just any march. It was a national call to action. With structure, resources, time, and the entire machinery of the national party in motion. There was no room for failure. And they failed.
The complaint, they say, was directed at Ariadna Montiel. Because if anyone was supposed to guarantee territorial strength, it was her. But the discontent didn’t stop there. It trickled down, as it often does in politics, with even more force.
Ariadna Montiel, in turn, reportedly shifted the pressure onto the Chihuahua team: Mayra Chávez, Cruz Pérez Cuéllar, Andrea Chávez, local deputies, senators, Morena mayors, and the entire Welfare structure.
The internal diagnosis would be brutal: they don’t know how to mobilize.
Because mastering digital discourse, recording videos, filling timelines, and simulating strength on social media is one thing… and filling a plaza under the sun, in the real world, is quite another.
And that was the problem.
Chihuahua is not Mexico City. It doesn’t respond the same way. It doesn’t move the same way. And whoever thought it was enough to replicate the capital’s formula was wrong.
The disorganization was evident. More than three hours of delay. People waiting in the sun, dehydrated, uncomfortable, complaining to their own leaders. The march didn’t start because there simply wasn’t anything to get it going.
More people were expected. They never arrived.
What was seen was a scattered contingent, with gaps, with disorganization, with more excuses than a narrative. A plaza that wasn’t filled even with the entire apparatus on display.
And that, in politics, weighs more than any speech.
Because when there’s a structure, it shows. And when there isn’t, that shows too.
What happened leaves more than just a bad image: it leaves an internal sign of weakness and a chain of recriminations that has only just begun.
Morena can insist on its narrative, inflate figures, edit footage, and manipulate perceptions. But the reality of that day was plain for all to see.
Because in the end, as the saying goes, man does not live by bread alone… and it seems that a political movement cannot live on likes alone either.
Source: mexicodailypost
