The Mexican president, Sheinbaum, was useful by popularity as a mountain challenge

Maria del Carmen Huber Guevara, 63, traveled on a bus with 60 other people all night just to have the chance to see Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum in person during a rally on Sunday in Mexico.

Huber Guevara said that she had left her home in Boca del Rio, in Veracruz state, at 11 p.m. local time for the 400-kilometer trip northwest of the national capital where she arrived at 6 am

“(She) is the best because she is the first woman president and, the truth is that she works well for us,” said Huber Guevara, sitting on a Square Constitution chair, who was blocked with tens of thousands of Sheinbaum supporters waiting to hear the president talking about a big white scene to mark his first year of office.

The crowd has spread in the adjacent streets under the white flags of the Sheinbaum festival, the national left-populist regeneration movement, known as Morena, which floated among white airship-shaped balloons.

Huber Guevara said that the Sheinbaum government had finally given her title to her home where she lived for more than 30 years as part of a neighborhood that grew up on crouching land.

“Imagine living in a place for 30 years without showing anything you are the owners,” she said. “How can you not be grateful?”

Sheinbaum, which, according to local polls, has a 70%approval rating, faces a wide range of challenges, tensions of trade relations with the United States on a current public security crisis created by groups of deeply anchored crimes,

While supporters see it as the type of leader that Mexico needs, others see Sheinbaum pursuing the creeping domination of his power in power over the levers of the country’s political power.

‘For people’

Sheinbaum opened her speech by strengthening the image she worked to project as president of the people.

“I do not walk alone, I do not govern alone, our government is of the people, for the people and by the people of Mexico,” she said.

“We live a historic moment.”

Cosimo Morales Hurtado, 73, farmer from Tlaltetela cane, Veracruz, said that it was true that Sheinbaum took care of the poor and those who earned their lives to the earth.

“Before, the other governments, they diverted money in many ways,” said Morales Hurtado.

“It helps the campaign, producers of corn, coffee, lemons, cane – that’s why we are here, we are grateful.”

Sheinbaum, the former mayor of Mexico City and Scientist of Energy and Climate Change, continued to take Morena on the presidency after having succeeded the previous president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, founder of the party.

She is now undoubtedly the most powerful president since 2000, when Vicente Fox broke the 70 -year taken on the presidency by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Morena and her allies are currently controlling the congress, the Senate and the majority of state governors.

Political analyst Carlos Bravo Regidor, who is based in Mexico City, said that the president’s popularity exceeded that of his own government.

The Sheinbaum administration was spoiled by allegations of corruption, struggled with a weak economy and, like other governments, was shaken by violence in progress and linked to the cartel in large expanses of the country.

“She seems to be vaccinated against the way people assess her government’s performance,” said Bravo Regidor.

“Claudia Sheinbaum has a good image as a professional, as a serious woman … She has not made great mistakes.”

Sheinbaum was credited with the skilful management of the US President Donald Trump, who threatened to separate the Canada-UX-Mexico (CUMSA) agreement has now been headed for renegotiation.

During her speech, Sheinbaum said that she was “confident” that Mexico would conclude a trade agreement with the United States, she had also taken a subtle blow to Trump, saying that a new railway project of passengers connecting Mexico to several states should be called the “Gulf of Mexico”, after asking the crowd if they agreed.

“Pac-man affects”

But after applause and music fade and the cleaners stack the chairs and sweep the remains of the Sunday rally, Sheinbaum will face serious and intertwined challenges involving the economy, American and public security, which will define its remaining five years, said Bravo Regidor. In Mexico, the presidents are not authorized to hold only one mandate of six years.

“Thus, (its popularity) could still go to the south,” said Bravo Regidor.

Although the government has published recent data, it indicates that the rates lowered for what they call “intentional homicides”, such as assassinations, organized crime groups have always controlled several states such as Michoacán, Sinaloa and Jalisco.

“There is this phenomenon called criminal governance where it is very difficult to distinguish organized crime and authorities,” said Bravo Regidor.

During her speech, Sheinbaum promised that she was taking a hard line against this type of corruption

“In this new-mexic, honesty is not the exception, it is the rule. Those who betray the people, fly from the people, will be confronted with justice,” she said.

In a small place, along the metropolitan cathedral, not far from Constitution Square, a small group of citizens has set up a protest camp to mobilize the opposition to Sheinbaum and its Morena party. They worked in quarters to keep a constant presence at the camp, with its row of small tents installed behind a metal fence.

“It’s time for citizens to take action,” said Mario Raúl Suarez, 68. “We have to save our institutions to preserve our freedom.”

The members of the group, who have not yet won a traditional traction, say that they believe that Sheinbaum and his Morena party are trying to control all levels of power thanks to acts as recently devoting a law demanding that the judges are elected and by giving military control of civil functions, such as the supervision of public works projects – problems that have triggered the controversy in the country.

Most of the nine judges now at the Supreme Court have links with the Power Party Morena.

“It is like a PAC-Man effect. The government takes control of everything,” said Jorge Ariaga Vidalez, one of the members of the group.

The group recently attracted the direct condemnation of Sheinbaum for having sang “no to the dictatorship” on a megaphone, to the rattle of a tambourine, while Prime Minister Mark Carney stopped in his motorcycle in front of the National Palace for a bilateral meeting on September 18.

“If it was a dictatorship, do you think they could shout,” dictatorship “, when there is an international visit? It’s a bit schizophrenic,” said Sheinbaum, the next day at his morning press conference.

‘A bloody era’

During the week preceding the rally on Sunday, thousands of people went from the Place des Trois Cultures to Constitution Square on October 2 to commemorate the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre when the Mexican army shot Protestant students.

The pastor of Quiquet Toledo, 86, was there and saw his friends slaughtered.

“There were bullets, there were balls that thundered, which thundered,” he said. “Not one by one, but one right after the other.”

Pastor Toledo said that fundamental requests from students of that time – democratic and political reform – had barely been satisfied, 57 years later.

“We haven’t resolved much of what we asked for. It changed to the rhythm of water droplets,” he said.

He said the country is currently convulted by a level of violence in Cartel beyond all that has witnessed its history.

“You may have noticed that there have been disappearances in Mexico. My handsome Mexico is in a bloody era, from north to south, from east to west, which has not been experienced in past times,” said Pastor Toledo.

“Mexico … Even if it’s now, has so much potential to go ahead and I love it.”