El Yunque The ultra-right in power

Television creates a voracious audience that is not enough for a hundred-story building that collapses or a plane that crashes near the sun. Insatiable, he wants more. A sunrise will contemplate pieces of outer space and the next day will name a star. The printed letter weaves its magic in another way. The reporter-editors investigate the reason for the events and the unreason of the conflicts that make existence a chance, wonderful and terrible at the same time. His work is in the center of the sea, stretched towards a horizon that nobody reaches and towards the depth to which nobody reaches. A task like this tests the intelligence and intuition that are born of thinking alone and in silent multitudinous company. Through effort, Álvaro Delgado has become a great reporter. He will continue to grow and soon join literature to his skills as a researcher, a counterpoint that the luminous image of television demands. The beauty of language will not be for narcissistic filigree, but for precision, the supreme gift of written journalism. Disturbs the book of Álvaro Delgado, I live the uneasiness in each of its pages. In a simple way, as it should be, he gives an account of his finding, meticulous, punctually. The election of the year 2000 was not only a political epic, but a story that was hidden from Mexicans, inalienable their right to know. Who defeated the system on July 2 of that year? Vicente Fox, the PAN, and even Friends of Fox are only part of the response, born of a superficial analysis of that electoral process. Reality far exceeds the so-called Fox phenomenon. On July 2, a political project that emerged decades ago, with ideological roots in the Mexican ultra-right, materialized in a majority of votes. From this hypothesis, Álvaro Delgado dedicated invaluable time to the investigation of a vast ideological and political network known as El Yunque, a secret, sworn brotherhood, with its own territory: the Bajío, and with its own mission: to implant the kingdom of God in Mexican soil. The reading of the book reveals a history of violence and intransigence,