The 4T Regime's Steady Hands

Too many decisions have had to be contained to preserve the higher goals and bonds of loyalty around the regime's central vessel, which carries its two most isolated and besieged spheres of power.

Those two spheres are former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador and President Claudia Sheinbaum. The article presents them as figures of unusual personal force, without a manual, model or guidebook, whose decisions and the passage of time will either strengthen or erode the system they have built.

Inside and outside the presidential cabinet, and among their close associates, people have emerged who understood the call of history, alongside others accused of excesses, vices and betrayals of both the legacy and the “second floor” of the political project. Some have shattered the privilege of proximity and political trust. Others appear to have clung to the belief that borrowed grandeur would preserve their impunity.

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Let no one be mistaken, there are no divisions or ruptures, only the defense of the people of Mexico and their dignity.

At Sheinbaum's second presidential report, “honesty and results” served as the government's two central pillars. The article argues that they also form the basis of a continuing test of political trust for those seeking to remain a sphere of power within the 4T. López Obrador and Sheinbaum have worked to build a new power system that faces internal challenges and pressure from the geopolitical interests of the Washington government.

That is why the article highlights Sheinbaum's message: “Let no one be mistaken, there are no divisions or ruptures, only the defense of the people of Mexico and their dignity.” It concludes that the legacy and the difficult decisions before her rest on the firm hands of Sheinbaum and López Obrador, who must keep the system steady and, in Antonio Machado's words, succeed “with the sail where the wind blows.”

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with the sail where the wind blows