Opinion by Enrique Krauze: A story similar to that of King Henry II is now playing out in Mexico. The Mexican president is not only outrageously slandering his critics. He is skating right up to inciting violence against them.
The president maintains that his attacks are legally unobjectionable. Under Mexican law, public figures can expect to be subject to greater scrutiny than private citizens. This scrutiny might be severe, aggressive and even offensive. The threshold of acceptable scrutiny is meant to be directly proportional to the person’s relevance in public life. All of López Obrador’s troublesome critics are public figures. So, the president reasons, all this is fair game.
Are there legal means of recourse? In theory, yes. In practice, no. A feature of the Mexican constitution that has long been a source of pride is the “Amparo,” or writ of protection, which guards individuals against abuses of government authority.
In full view of the world, López Obrador is leading us down the path to a single-party state under the control of a single man. The cause of liberty is what stands in the way of any attempt to put an end to democracy. We troublesome critics never tire of pointing this out.that watching the work of journalist Ciro Gómez Leyva could give you “a brain tumor.” An attempt was made on Gómez Leyva’s life the very same week.
It might only be a matter of time before one of López Obrador’s critics is murdered. At that point, the president will say that it was all a plot to bring him down. Or, like King Henry II, he might say that it was all just “a misunderstanding.”
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