“Betrayal of the homeland”: the clash of visions between Mario Delgado and Marko Cortés

After President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)'s Electric Reform vote in the Chamber of Deputies, criticism and clashes on social networks between the opposition and the members and allies of Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) have not stopped; however, among their insults there is a phrase that is never missing: “Traitor to the homeland”.

And it is that since the opposition benches that form Va por México - made up of the Acción Nacional (PAN), Institutional Revolutionary (PRI) and the Democratic Revolution (PRD) parties - announced that they would vote against the initiative of the federal president, the supporters of the cherry party they have not been lowered from “traitors to the homeland”.

Shortly after the Electricity Reform did not get enough votes to pass, Morena's leader Mario Delgado Carrillo announced that he will install the public squares of the country are clotheslines with the photographs, names and party to which the “traitors to the homeland” belong.

“We want people to see the faces, the faces of traitors, so that we never forget who turned their backs on the people, who turned their backs on our children, who turned their backs on our grandchildren, who dishonored so many centuries of history that we have as a nation, which we have as a homeland,” he said.

According to Morenista, legislators who want to hand over control of sectors such as energy to transnationals clearly represent what a “betrayal of the homeland” is, so they should be called according to their loyalty.

“Loyalty to the country is indispensable. Our national anthem says it: 'but if I dare a strange enemy, a soldier in each son gave you'. Our life as a sovereign nation depends on the control of sectors such as energy. Giving it to foreigners is not thinking differently: it is TREASON,” the leader of the cherry party warned in a statement.

Mario Delgado stressed that we currently live in a democratic and freedoms Mexico, in which the right to think differently is respected. However, he pointed out that, in terms of sovereignty, “acting against the homeland is called treason and this was warned by President Adolfo López Mateos in 1960″ when he nationalized the electricity industry.

For his part, the leader of the National Action Party (PAN), Marko Cortés Mendoza, shared on his official Twitter account his vision of what is a true traitor to the party.

According to the leader of the blue and white, maintaining a government with the greatest economic crisis, leaving the health sector and having high levels of insecurity is what represents a betrayal of the homeland.

On the vote against the Electricity Reform, Cortés Mendoza said that thinking differently is essential in a democracy, so he demanded that President López Obrador to stop the campaigns of rancor and violence carried out by its supporters.

“To have the worst government, with crises in economy, health and insecurity is betrayal of the country. Thinking differently is essential in a democracy. We demand a #AltoAlOdio from the National Palace, no campaign of rancor and violence will help change the course of Mexico,” he wrote on his social network.

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