“Yes, it's an honor”: Claudia Sheinbaum reaffirmed her loyalty to AMLO 17 years after the lawlessness and two years after 2024

Claudia Sheinbaum, head of government of Mexico City, reaffirmed her loyalty to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on the 17th anniversary of the lawlessness that was subjected to when he was head of government of the then Federal District (DF) in 2005. Using social networks, the doctor of environmental engineering published this Thursday, April 7:

Since May 18, 2004, the then Attorney General's Office (PGR), which was under the mandate of the federal executive of Vicente Fox (2000-2006), requested the dismissal of López Obrador in relation to the attempt to expropriate the property known as “El Encino” to communicate to a hospital.

The reason for requesting the defence of the federal legislature was that in September 2003, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), unanimously, annulled the legal decision that supported the appropriation of the property where the urban spot would be communicated with the ABC Hospital. Thus, the PGR proceeded with the charge of “contempt” to remove AMLO's legal immunity and attempt to prosecute him.

Consequently, the Chamber of Deputies held the special session to determine whether the head of government of Mexico City was challenged on April 7, 2005, where AMLO presented himself to deliver a speech less than 10 minutes in which he argued that it was actually a plot planned by the political and business spheres of Mexico.

The names he mentioned in relation to this plot were Vicente Fox Quesada, president of Mexico; Romulo O'Farrill, high-profile businessman; and Mariano Azuela, president of the SCJN.

“I appear with dignity, before this court, for the trial of lawlessness against me. Very little will I argue, in legal terms, about the falsity of this judgment. I am absolutely certain that I am not being judged for violating the law but for my way of thinking and acting”, he began his famous speech before the PRI and PAN deputies who discouraged him.

He pointed out that the only crime he committed was “trying to open a street to communicate a hospital” and that his detractors used it as a pretext to delegitimize his search for change in power structures in Mexico's early two thousand.

He assured that the great leaders of Mexico, those who feel they own the country, are afraid of change and “that fear leads them to try to crush anyone who violates their interests and proposes a homeland for all and a homeland for the humiliated.” This should be contextualized that it happened in the last stretch of his government in Mexico City and that AMLO was emerging as the most popular candidate to be president of Mexico hand in hand with the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), which in 2021 lost its registration as a local political party in 15 states because no one votes for him anymore.

During his speech, he pointed out that he did not expect to continue with his jurisdiction, since the deputies of the PRI and PAN, who were in the majority, were already ordered to disappoint AMLO, so he merely rubbed this fact in their faces and told them that, in time, history would judge them.

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