The imposition of Mexican doctor Julio Frenk, as the next chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), is celebrated by liberal media as a supposedly historical milestone for the institution, becoming the first “Latino” chancellor.

Julio Frenk, a graduate of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), was selected as chancellor through a mechanism similar to that of the university where he studied: the outcome of an anti-democratic deliberative process led by a board of regents elected by the governor of California, without any real consultation with students, workers or faculty.

The false narrative of inclusion built around the selection of Frenk makes him look like the beacon of progress just because he comes from Mexico, but behind it is his past as part of the technocratic elite of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) of Mexico, promoter of the neoliberalization of the country and the marginalization of working people. Indeed, Frenk is no ally of minorities or the people. A member of PRI since the eighties, the state party that dominated Mexico for more than 70 years, Frenk was from the beginning close to the group of doctor Guillermo Soberón, chancellor of UNAM in the seventies. Soberón would be recognized at UNAM as a repressor of the student movement and the union movement, particularly in 1977, when he ordered the police to violently end the strike of the UNAM Workers Union (STUNAM).

Frenk is one of the technocrats who in the eighties began the privatization process of the health sector in Mexico. As a disciple of Soberón, he would continue in the 2000s with the neoliberal reforms that his teacher had initiated, when he was granted the position of Secretary of Health during the government of Vicente Fox, of the right-wing party, National Action Party (PAN). Following the orders of the World Bank, health system reforms gave way to private interests and the market, to the dismantling of the public health system, and to the increase in social inequality. While the population suffered because of his policies and those of his technocratic comrades, Frenk received a very lucrative salary and was more concerned with polishing his CV so he could run for director of the World Health Organization. Likewise, he dedicated himself to diverting funds from the Secretary of Health to the National Pro-Life Committee, which in turn used them for illicit enrichment and to finance centers that prevented safe and free abortion for women. Later, as president of the University of Miami, he returned the favor to former President Vicente Fox, by giving him an honorary certificate without apparent explanation, a recognition of one of the most repressive and right-wing presidents.

Frenk is also part of a right-wing institution in Mexico with a fraternal relationship with PRI and PAN, an institution created by former conservative president Manual Ávila Camacho. This institution called The National College (El Colegio Nacional), is an exclusive place where only people of supposedly great prestige in science, the arts and humanities are allowed into. In reality, its members are chosen by a select group of “scientists” who have taken advantage of their proximity to the technocratic elites to position themselves within academia and the State, and which have served to promote policies to dismantle the State in favor of transnational companies and their own companies. Those who are part of this select club of academics receive a monthly salary of more than one hundred thousand pesos (approx. 5000 USD, very high for Mexican standards), which they will receive for the rest of their lives as a kind of early retirement, at the expense of the public treasury.

Julio Frenk is an experienced neoliberal technocrat, protector of the rich, enemy of the unions and faithful Zionist. Indeed, Frenk has been a faithful defender of the Zionist state, and collaborator of the Zionist organization Hillel, in effect, an apologist for the genocide in Palestine. Frenk was clearly chosen by the regents to simulate a process of conciliation with the student masses protesting the liberation of Palestine, and to simulate a focus on minorities. But his bureaucratic past and social class give him away. Students, workers and faculty have to put an end to this authoritarian system that imposes chancellors who profit from education and exploit the workers. 

Enough of the Democratic Party and its capitalist and imperialist interests imposing themselves in both educational and union structures. 

For the democratization of the university and the workplace. 

Zionists and cops off campus.