Customs, one more control of Morena over her

“A man is capable of destroying another person if he does not let him go and does not allow him to come completely close to him; he ties him to himself and does not return him to the world, and at the same time he keeps his distance, does not forge any alliance with him. The person treated in this way ends up dying from having been removed from the world. From being left alone and, at the same time, not being completely alone, because he lives in a kind of bondage and his jailer does not care for him.”

SANDOR MARAI

Once again, she has to save face. It is not that she is looking for it or that she is proposing such a task to herself. That does not mean that it is becoming more and more onerous for Sheinbaum and her administration to take care of López Obrador and Morena .

They don't leave her alone, they tie her down even more, they take away her space to move forward. They don't give her a break, not even because she belongs to the 4t and she is the president of Mexico .

Within this reality, on February 14, Valentine's Day, Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed in her morning press conference that Rafael Marín Mollinedo would be the new head of the National Customs Agency of Mexico from that date.

This is not the first time that this gentleman has held this position; he held it before - from December 2022 to June 2023 - during the Tabasco administration. He then sent him as ambassador to the OECD ...

Marín Mollinedo is Nico 's first cousin, who was López Obrador's driver for many years; the one who drove the Tabasco native's white Tsuru.

Mollinedo and his cousin have a well-established friendship with the López Beltrán clan , so it is worth saying that they now have control of the country's customs . Among many other issues, the 4t will surely use these to seek the party's candidacy for the government of Quintana Roo in 2027.

If, in addition, Marín Mollinedo is in Customs as a challenge to Trump (it is the worst time to introduce people without the capacity in such a strategic position in the face of the trade war started by the American) and/or to steal for some close to the Tabasco native, for the worst scum of Morena and for himself, the message and the foreseeable result is even more disastrous.

With 50 porous land and sea customs through which any type of merchandise can pass, including fentanyl , a team of honest people and specialists must be in place to watch President Sheinbaum's back.

Customs , despite all its problems and corruption , are believed to collect more than 1 trillion pesos a year (a figure that Claudia Sheinbaum is seeking to increase by half a trillion pesos more annually to reach a collection of 1.5 trillion pesos). During López Obrador's six-year term, tax revenue from customs reached 1.25 trillion pesos; unfortunately, official figures from the National Customs Agency indicate that they do not even exceed 900 billion pesos annually. Was there any leftover money? Where did that money go?

What a juggling act the head of the federal Executive will now have to do to increase customs revenue in the face of the imposition of López Obrador and his sons!

If Customs is placed under the leadership of Omar García Harfuch and within the Secretariat of Security , these would be a fundamental part of the intelligence apparatus and therefore it would be easier to stop acts of corruption and the porosity of customs.

But no. Today they mean one more nail in Claudia Sheinbaum 's coffin. One less possibility of being able to obtain resources when the country needs them so much and one more sign to Trump that Chinese products will continue to pass through our customs without any kind of sanction...

Why allow this imposition? In exchange for what? Either the president is sacrificing herself or she is being sacrificed. This appointment will be a setback for her Treasury , for her SAT and for the income that the country requires. A setback also because the drug traffickers will sneak in through there, hand in hand with the 4t.

Customs: Morena's further control over Claudia and the country…

The appointment of Rafael Marín Mollinedo is very similar to nepotism , because although it is true that his cousin is no longer on the government payroll, blood ties and cronyism are what brought him to the position he now occupies. It would be interesting if the law against nepotism promoted by Sheinbaum also included these cases.