The consent manufacturing machine has been working to that effect since Sheinbaum took office. If you speak to any right-wing Mexican they’ll tell you that Sheinbaum is in cahoots with the cartels (which ones? no idea) because the streets are not overflowing with blood like during the Calderon administration. It’s been repeated so much that it’s considered truth to some degree by most people outside of Mexico.
The consensus among my leftist Mexican friends is one of critical support, because Morena has been consistently terrible when it comes to Indigenous Peoples’ rights, environmental issues, and prioritizing large urban areas at the expense of rural Mexico. This is my position as well.
When asking Mexican Media or my Mexican acquiantances who are not as politically literate as my friends, she’s corrupt and bought by the cartels. Every politician is, but she’s soft on crime and the cartels. Working class Mexicans I know admit it’s been better, but they’re not full believers, because politics is only for corrupt people.
My complaints would be less along those lines (because thats the bogus line that whitexican libs love) and more along the lines of the usual comprador bullshit, regressive taxation that affects working professionals instead of financial speculators, lackluster funding of healthcare/transportation and stupid MBA bullshit within IMSS, lack of local level anti-corruption institutions and protectionism in favor of US companies while acting like it’s to protect Mexican jobs.
It’s honestly mostly the protectionism and the lack of local accountability, because most of that shit would be solved , I swear to god local politicians jump from the corrupt ass PRI and it’s like they’ve been baptized in the holy spirit of morena which somehow absolves them of adhering to a national strategy of development or even having to sort of hide the usual blatant embezzlement.
Not saying the first part is completely false but you can see a clear and marked progression unlike those I pointed out which seem to be one step forward and two steps back.
because thats the bogus line that whitexican libs love
I’ll tell my campesino and indigenous friends and their orgs they’re whitexican because they have complaints about the Mexican gvmnt, specifically about the way their land is handled, and how they’re being abandoned unless there is something to extract from there in the name of ‘progress’. I am not Mexican, and haven’t lived there in years, so i’m missing a lot of reality on the ground, particularly what you mention, but dismissing those concerns as “whitexican” shit is really reductive and erases the reality of some of the most vulnerable and vocal people in Mexico who have spent decades demanding their rights be upheld.
The lack of local accountability seems to be endemic to most local politics throughout latam though. Parties and party lines stop existing at the municipal and regional level, and local power brokers change parties like they change socks, only to allow for the graft to keep going. It seems that many leftist parties/governments struggle with maintaining discipline at the micro level, because they focus so much on national and parliamentary politics.
My theory is that the “Maduro is in cahoots with the Cartels” line was specifically to prepare the public for when that line is used as a justification for couping Sheinbaum.
The consent manufacturing machine has been working to that effect since Sheinbaum took office. If you speak to any right-wing Mexican they’ll tell you that Sheinbaum is in cahoots with the cartels (which ones? no idea) because the streets are not overflowing with blood like during the Calderon administration. It’s been repeated so much that it’s considered truth to some degree by most people outside of Mexico.
My Mexican friend supported her before the election and she Monera generally improved Mexico and that the majority of Mexicans agree
The consensus among my leftist Mexican friends is one of critical support, because Morena has been consistently terrible when it comes to Indigenous Peoples’ rights, environmental issues, and prioritizing large urban areas at the expense of rural Mexico. This is my position as well.
When asking Mexican Media or my Mexican acquiantances who are not as politically literate as my friends, she’s corrupt and bought by the cartels. Every politician is, but she’s soft on crime and the cartels. Working class Mexicans I know admit it’s been better, but they’re not full believers, because politics is only for corrupt people.
My complaints would be less along those lines (because thats the bogus line that whitexican libs love) and more along the lines of the usual comprador bullshit, regressive taxation that affects working professionals instead of financial speculators, lackluster funding of healthcare/transportation and stupid MBA bullshit within IMSS, lack of local level anti-corruption institutions and protectionism in favor of US companies while acting like it’s to protect Mexican jobs.
It’s honestly mostly the protectionism and the lack of local accountability, because most of that shit would be solved , I swear to god local politicians jump from the corrupt ass PRI and it’s like they’ve been baptized in the holy spirit of morena which somehow absolves them of adhering to a national strategy of development or even having to sort of hide the usual blatant embezzlement.
Not saying the first part is completely false but you can see a clear and marked progression unlike those I pointed out which seem to be one step forward and two steps back.
I’ll tell my campesino and indigenous friends and their orgs they’re whitexican because they have complaints about the Mexican gvmnt, specifically about the way their land is handled, and how they’re being abandoned unless there is something to extract from there in the name of ‘progress’. I am not Mexican, and haven’t lived there in years, so i’m missing a lot of reality on the ground, particularly what you mention, but dismissing those concerns as “whitexican” shit is really reductive and erases the reality of some of the most vulnerable and vocal people in Mexico who have spent decades demanding their rights be upheld.
The lack of local accountability seems to be endemic to most local politics throughout latam though. Parties and party lines stop existing at the municipal and regional level, and local power brokers change parties like they change socks, only to allow for the graft to keep going. It seems that many leftist parties/governments struggle with maintaining discipline at the micro level, because they focus so much on national and parliamentary politics.
My theory is that the “Maduro is in cahoots with the Cartels” line was specifically to prepare the public for when that line is used as a justification for couping Sheinbaum.