López Obrador proposes a surveillance system similar to the CDR in Mexico

The president of Mexico,Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has proposed to Mexicans that if their neighbors seem suspicious of corruption, they report it to the authorities.

In a press conference held this Wednesday, the president asked for help to identify cases of rapid enrichment or gentrification that can serve as a guide to knowing where the corrupt are.

“There are things that cannot be hidden, generally the corrupt are very puppets, the first thing they do is buy residences, luxury cars, they start spending on luxury cars. You can see how the neighbor lives, he has already moved, he no longer lives in Doctores (a popular neighborhood in Mexico City), he has already gone to Las Lomas (one of the most expensive residential areas). All that is reported,” said the Mexican president.

The suggestion quickly aroused suspicion and also concern among citizens and the media, who soon linked it to the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), a Castro invention from the early 1960s, born with the seal of favoring denunciations and tasks. collective surveillance.

Also in Venezuela, the late Hugo Chávez created spy networks in communities in 2008, which were used to expose alleged dissidents, as he recalled this Friday.Infobae.

Chávez also created the so-called “communal councils” of neighbors, which fulfilled a role similar to that of the CDRs in Cuba.

Comments abound on social networks that allude to the similarities between the surveillance system proposed by López Obrador and its unique references in Latin America: none other than Cuba and Venezuela.

"Surveillance Committees in the pure style of the Castros or the Nazi Gestapo," one user pointed out.

"In times of the Inquisition that is why they tortured and burned people, in Nazism that led thousands of people to concentration camps and in Castro's time that same thing imprisoned men and women who did not agree with their government" commented another Internet user.

López Obrador is one of the few Latin American presidents whohas not requested the departure of Nicolás Maduro from power and continues to recognize him as president.

Added to this is its good relations with the Cuban Government, which has generateda growing number of Cuban migrants deported from Mexico to the Island.