Mexico´s fight with Socialism some views about the situation in Mexico with socialistic tendencies.
We really need to focus on the fact that Mexico is very different from the United States, both in its history, and population make-up. But in some things, we can see a lot of similarities. Mexico´s government has basically been a failure in the past. They cover up for their lack of strong economy, strong industrial base, and other factors that allow people to work, live in freedom and peace. Inflation has been a very bad factor in the economy over the past. Today it is no better. The job situation is also bad. There are high paying jobs, but in general, lower than in the states. But the mass of common people live on very little income. A good job often means traveling 1-3 hours each way to work, and the daily salary is barely better than what a normal person would spend on (public) transportation and lunch. This forces the entire family to work, and side hustles, just to make ends meet.
The startup new political party Morena, started with the last president Lopez Obrador, and continues with his hand picked successor Claudia Sheinbaum. The problem is that Donald Trump has taken a very strong stand against crime, and especially organized crime, and Obrador and Sheinbaum have taken the opposite position. Their position is to let the cartels alone, to do their illegal activities, and try to be friendly to them. Their famous saying is “Hugs not bullets.” This does not work as a government’s position to crime. It destroys society.
Nonetheless, they persist on with their plans. The only problem though is that the criminals do not curtail their deathly activities, and that becomes very difficult to hide as a government. It would seem that Sheinbaum´s solution to Mexico´s problem is to give away more money. The economy is basically broken from all the expenses and illegal political activities that skim and skim money from public funds, and eventually, it is not skimming, but deep dipping into the treasury.
While this Morena political party sees itself as the savior of Mexico, many disagree. Obrador´s initial identification was a denouncing of the corrupt political parties that controlled Mexico before he was president. This was a true understanding. There was and is a lot of corruption in Mexico. The system has been so saturated with cronyism and corruption that it is hard to do basic things any more, unless you have a friend in some office that can pull levels to get things done as they say in Mexico.
But the problem with Obrador’s plan from the beginning is that he started a new political party which had zero members before he started. Many government employees simply join whichever political party that is in power to continue their careers. Morena needed thousands of people, and they got them. But they drew these people from the very same corrupt political parties that were in power before, so now after Obrador’s 6 year term, and Claudia Sheinbaum’s first year, the corruption scandals are beginning to surface again as is with corrupt people. They have not solved any real problems in the country, and now their dirty laundry is showing.
Lopez Obrador said he was stepping aside from politics when he ended his 6 year term as president. But now he is coming back into the political scene because Sheinbaum is having problems with the opposition forces against her specifically and against Morena. They may lose the next presidential election.
If you study the rise of Communism through Socialism, you will recognize some of the elements today in Mexico and in reins of Communism like Cuba, Venezuela, etc. Opposition candidates are suppressed, attacked, and even killed. The recent assassination of Carlos Manzo comes to mind here. He was a farmer, and the cartels were charging for the passage of his products going to market. Worse, he was selling produce, I think limes, and was confronted with the cartel’s pressure to pay to exist as a business. They took over the exporting to the US of this produce, and told him what prices he would get. So he refused, and started a political movement, and he became mayor of his city.
It is presumed that the cartel’s killed him over his refusal to bend to them. He had his 4 year old child in his arms when they shot him. Sheinbaum had assigned National Guard soldiers to protect him, but they were directing traffic at a distance from him, and they were no where near him when he was killed. The head of that group said they did what they were told to do by their superiors, and they completed their mission. Manzo had lived for some time under direct threats to his life.
But the truth of the matter is that Manzo was positioning himself to run for president in the next election. Those of Morena saw this as an attack on the country of Mexico. So the repression of opposition parties is starting to be seen, and the common people are picking up on it. They are marching against Claudia Sheinbaum, much to her dislike. She has recently accused the opposition to her presidency as people who don’t accept a woman president. Yes. Especially if that woman is doing what she is doing. Being a woman has nothing to do with their opposition. Not addressing the crime in the country, not working on raising the basic income level, not fighting against inflation, those kinds of things are exactly what the common folk are upset about.
The irony is that those issues that concern the common people are exactly the issues on which Lopez Obrador entered power. Once in power, those concerns disappear. Obrador championed the right to protest and march against what he saw as corruption in the Mexican government, and once in political power, now his party (he still supports Sheinbaum 100%) are repressing, hiding corruption, and openly defying any kind of aggression against crime.
Mexico´s fight with Socialism