This article by Anahí Del Ángel originally appeared in the September 30, 2026 edition of Revista Contralínea, Mexico’s leading independent investigative journalism outlet.
In response to the arrival in Mexico of former president Felipe Calderón Hinojosa to take part in the Foro América Libre, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo said ironically: “if he talks about democracy […] it would be a gem, the spurious Calderón talking about democracy,” in allusion to the electoral fraud of 2006.
The head of the federal Executive anticipated that the former president’s message would center on democracy, since the opposition has spoken out repeatedly on the subject.
However, she added that Calderón could refer to the case of Genaro García Luna, who was his Secretary of Security and is currently serving a 38-year prison sentence in the United States, after a court in that country found him guilty of several crimes related to drug trafficking and of having received millions in bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel.
She also mentioned that he could clarify “what he published, at the time, about the former governor of Baja California [Ernesto Ruffo Appel],” whom he accused in 2017 of having ties to the Arellano Félix brothers, leaders of the Tijuana Cartel, and with whom he later expressed solidarity when the politician was arrested in investigations linking him to the crime of fiscal huachicol (fuel smuggling disguised to evade taxes).
The president considered that the former PAN president could answer “why did the number of homicides double, or more than double, during his six-year term?”, one of the subjects he has avoided talking about since leaving office.
Finally, in response to accusations of supposed authoritarianism from groups opposed to the Fourth Transformation, she spoke out in favor of the freedoms guaranteed in Mexico:
He is welcome to keep talking, go ahead, freedom of expression to the max.
President Claudia Sheinbaum
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