Publisher's Synopsis
Antes de finalizar el tercer año de su gobierno, Andrés Manuel López Obrador apartó de su equipo disfrazando el hecho como una salida amistosa a Julio Scherer Ibarra, uno de sus hombres de mayor confianza, e hijo de uno de los periodistas más reconocidos en la historia reciente de México.
Nunca se explicaron los verdaderos motivos, y este hecho tampoco tuvo la resonancia que merecìa, pese a que quien se iba era, quizá, el segundo hombre más poderoso del paìs en ese momento.
A partir de una acuciosa investigación, Hernán Gómez Bruera-analista polìtico, periodista y entrevistador- detalla que detrás de esa salida se escondìa un historial de traición, tanto a la memoria de su padre como a la narrativa central del movimiento polìtico que lo llevó al poder: erradicar la corrupción y separar el poder económico del poder polìtico.
Traición en Palacio es, por un lado, la historia del todopoderoso exconsejero jurìdico que aprovechó su posición privilegiada en el gobierno para controlar buena parte del sistema de justicia en México.
Y por el otro, una denuncia de los mecanismos de corrupción en el Poder Judicial con los que se fabrican culpables y se vende impunidad; una detallada descripción de un modus operandi que la 4T no ha logrado erradicar.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Before the end of Andrés Manuel López Obrador's third year as president, he purged Julio Scherer Ibarra from his team, one of his most trusted men, and the son of one of the most renowned journalists in recent Mexican history, disguising the incident as a friendly parting of ways.
The true reasons for the ousting were never explained, and it didn't have the media exposure and coverage that it deserved either, despite the fact that the person leaving was perhaps the second most powerful man in the country at that time.
Based on a careful and meticulous investigation, Hernán Gómez Bruera-political analyst, journalist, and interviewer- details that behind Scherer Ibarra's exit laid a history of betrayal, both to his father's memory and to the central narrative of the political movement that led him to power: to eliminate corruption and separate economic power from political power.
On the one hand, Betrayal in the Palace is the story of the all-powerful former legal adviser to the president, who took advantage of his privileged position in the government to control a large part of the judicial system in Mexico.
And on the other, it is a condemnation of the corruption mechanisms in Mexico's judicial system, which fabricates and processes "guilty" people, while selling pardons to the powerful and guilty parties-a detailed description of a modus operandi that AMLO's 4T has failed to eradicate.
