What’s Sheinbaum’s beef with ex-President Zedillo?
- Former President Ernesto Zedillo publicly challenged current President Claudia Sheinbaum in April 2025 over Mexico’s democratic direction through essays and letters.
- The dispute began after Zedillo criticized Morena’s policies and judicial reform, accusing Sheinbaum’s government of undermining Mexico’s young democracy.
- Sheinbaum responded by questioning Zedillo’s credibility, citing his role in the 1995 Fobaproa bank bailout that burdened Mexico with $28 billion in debt.
- Zedillo called Morena’s reforms “a transformation from democracy into tyranny” and proposed an independent audit of current government projects to ensure transparency.
- The clash highlights increasing political polarization in Mexico, signaling deeper conflicts over institutional autonomy and democratic governance under Morena’s administration.
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In 1994, following the assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio, the dinosaur chose the one who succeeded him in the PRI candidacy for the Presidency of the Republic: Ernesto Zedillo, Colossio's campaign coordinator who, despite being so, did not accompany him to Tijuana on March 23 to the tour in which he died as a result of a crime that, 31 years after it was committed, has not been clarified and whose only beneficiary was... Zedillo.
What’s Sheinbaum’s beef with ex-President Zedillo?
Mexico is witnessing an unprecedented public political clash between a former president and the country’s current leader. The dispute began after the magazine Letras Libres published an essay by former president Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León (1994-2000) titled “Mexico: From Democracy to Tyranny.” In the piece, Zedillo delivered a scathing critique of the policies of the governing party, Morena, which sparked a public debate between President Cl…
Auditing, a Good Idea.
Image: Cherdchai101 on ShutterstockFederico Reyes HerolesArguments are the essence of democracy. It is very healthy for our threatened democracy that former President Zedillo has broken his self-imposed silence and returned to the debate.Photo: on jackson.yale.edu“In recent months—under López Obrador’s administration—and the first months of his successor, Claudia Sheinbaum, the riddle has been clearly solved: the promised transformation was, in …
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