Summary
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced plans for constitutional reforms to protect Mexico’s sovereignty after the U.S. designated six Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
The designation has raised concerns in Mexico about potential U.S. military intervention.
Sheinbaum vowed to prevent foreign interference in legal matters and proposed enshrining restrictions on foreign agents.
Additionally, she seeks harsher penalties for foreign gun traffickers. With a congressional majority, her Morena party is positioned to pass the reforms despite tensions with the U.S.
I stand behind my President, and I know the reforms will pass, because we elected her exactly for this. She’s been truly awesome and I feel confident to have her dealing with Trump, getting the best out of him. We can work together, never for them.
Como esta la vida en Mexico hoy en dia? A veces me pregunto si deberia mejor mudarme alli. Me da miedo todo lo que pasa en los ee.uu, pero cuanto mas oigo hablar de la presidente de Mexico, mas esperanza tengo sobre su pais.
Depende de donde vivas. Y esto depende mucho de tus ingresos o del arraigo de tu familia en su lugar de origen. En términos generales, las cosas están mejorando poco a poco, pero la estabilidad de nuestro país es muy dependiente de la política y economía estadounidenses. El asunto de la delincuencia organizada es otro aspecto de inestabilidad, pero suele ser localizado, pues a nivel nacional la mejora en datos de homicidios dolosos es un hecho, aunque se desean siempre cambios más contundentes. La meseta de más casos de homicidios dolosos se dio del 2018 al 2021, y a partir de 2022, comenzó a descender, consistentemente, año con año. Las políticas de Claudia Sheinbaum en materia de seguridad han continuado esta tendencia a la baja y finalmente estamos a niveles comparables a 2011, que siguen siendo altos.
A mí me parece que la presidenta es inteligente y exigente y no va a aflojar en esta tarea, aunque tener a Trump del otro lado del río es también un reto que requiere de mucha de su atención. Si las cosas siguen bien, yo pienso que en un par de años México vivirá en una situación aceptable de seguridad, con algunos relictos de inseguridad en ciudades específicas, pero a una escala manejable por fuerzas de seguridad estatal. Por cierto, este también es otro aspecto a considerar, el de quién gobierna tu estado y cómo lo hace, pues esa ya es harina de otro costal y los gobiernos estatales de San Luis Potosí o Sinaloa, por dar un par de ejemplos, son muy cuestionables, por decir lo menos.
Do the Zapatistas still control substantial territory in Chiapas? What does the rest of Mexico think about them? (Sorry I am not fluent enough to ask in Spanish)
Same here! I’ve yet to doubt her because her work has been pretty solid. The way her Mexico Embraces You program is laid out is surprisingly comprehensive and that gives me plenty of confidence.
The cartels wouldn’t be nearly as powerful if American gun companies weren’t producing so many guns, knowing full well where they’re ending up and how they’re being used.
In any case, talking about Mexico’s cartels is just Republicans trying to distract the public from their own white supremacist, bigoted, transphobic, and xenophobic policies that make them far more dangerous terrorists than all the Mexican cartels combined.
That’s not exactly true. While there is gun trafficking over the US southern border, the cartels have access to much larger orders of military hardware because they purchase firearms that “fell off the truck” from corrupt paramilitary orgs and security forces in central and South America.
You don’t need to piecemeal acquire semi-auto Glocks when you can get crates of full-auto AKs and ammo all in one go.
You should be more worried about your American military industrial complex and police state than Mexican cartels. Why is it never okay for other countries to have weaponry but America can do whatever the fuck?
If my Spanish wasn’t shit I’d write her a long letter saying why she should designate the LA Sheriffs Department a terrorist org
And the proud boys, and the oath keepers, and maga, and the ‘constitutional sherrifs’, and qanon, an the republiqan party.
Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott dude
I’m relatively certain she speaks pretty good English
That makes one of us I guess
I mean, with all the guns flowing from the US into Mexico, I think it’s probably in Mexico’s best interest to annex south Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California as a buffer zone.
I suggest building some sort of wall to keep Americans out. America isn’t sending its best
Maybe Trump’s plan to get Mexico to pay for the wall is to make America so shitty that they want a wall to keep Americans out. XD
I wouldn’t mind being under Mexican rule, if they’re cool with a white nerd to eat more good food and give the middle finger to Trump.
New Aztlán ftw
I’m fine with this. Universal health care would be great.
Just as long as the foreign agents bill doesn’t conflict with the EU’s law on press freedom. If it does, Mexico will never be admitted to the EU. Wait, I’m thinking of Georgia. Never mind, carry on.
I don’t quite understand why the US and Mexico haven’t teamed up on this issue. From what I understand the cartels are a huge force in Mexico that need a military to deal with. The US should be able to provide support in the form of intelligence, funding, etc. Maybe even feet on the ground. It would benefit both countries a lot.
Well let’s see. How would wages get affected if drug cartels disappear, security and stability increase as a result? I think chances are they’d go higher. That would reduce cheap labor across both the US and Mexico. Farm and other. You’d have a drop in weapons sales too.
They just did. You really should pay attention to the criticisms and progress parts. You see, the right-wing government imposed by the bipartisan, vassal-to-the-USA regime we had until 2018 had as head of public security a guy who is now jailed for drug trafficking in the USA.
American media love to say these are “Mexican cartels”, but we believe they are international organizations with a firm structure based in the USA too, and if I’m being honest, I believe at least some “Mexican cartel druglords” are in the CIA and DEA payrolls.
It’s also interesting to see how this Merida Initiative correlated with the homicide rate in Mexico, during the same period of time it was active (2007-2021). In 2007 we had ~9 homicides per 100,000 people, by 2021 the homicide rate peaked at ~29.
Thanks! I wasn’t aware of that.
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Because if the US gets rid of the problem, we don’t have a convenient ‘other’ enemy to point to when we want to dump money into the military or give an excuse for MAGAts to attack Mexican-Americans.
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Because then we wouldn’t have an excuse to invade Mexico. And make no mistake, he wants us to invade Mexico. Fascists need wars and ‘other’ enemies in order to keep people in their borders distracted and supportive.
Canada is in danger too. His handlers need a war and they want resources, and Canada has a lot of natural resources to plunder.
But he’ll go for Mexico first because it’s filled with brown people who we’ve been told are all terrorists who sneak over the border to take our jobs. It’s an easier target.
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I’m confused as to why these organised crime syndicates weren’t already designated terrorist organisations and why the government of Mexico wasn’t already trying to cut off the gun supply to them.
really reads like liberal women acting conservative to spite the conservatives …
Women always getting uppity, am I right? Why is she not in a kitchen right now, I ask you?! And she needs to smile more.
I sometimes forget how far egalitarianism has back-pedalled in my lifetime.
Me too. These days you see people whining about “liberal women” and what they say…
I’ll pay that
I’ll bet most things confuse you.
The world must be a confusing place for you
What’s their political motivation?
