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)
They do control some municipalities in Chiapas. They call these autonomous settlements “caracoles”. The EZLN is a very important leftist movement, but for many Mexicans it feels like they are too radical. Most Mexicans currently vote left and polls show they are alright with the current leftist federal government. That’s not to say the zapatismo is dead or not respected, not at all, it’s just not that popular as it was before, but they are their own thing. People in caracoles have grown with a very different mindset, they’ve educated new generations of zapatistas and we couldn’t grasp the impact of this.
They’ve been also struggling to defend their territories against cartels recently. That kind of enemy is something new for them, I hope they come out of that battle strengthened.
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.
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
I’m relatively certain she speaks pretty good English
That makes one of us I guess
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
