Mexico General Discussion: Amlodipine

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https://twitter.com/americaelige/status/1333450840871415810
Reassuring numbers if true for MORENA. If the poll is anywhere in the margin of error, it indicates that PAN is the face of the opposition.

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I am going definitely going to offer (critical) support to AMLO and PT outside of whether the EZLN may support a candidate or the 23rd district most likely

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MORENA gubernatorial candidate accused of rape will still stand in Guerrero
AMLO can get away with this now due to the fact that other parties really are not better at this, but eventually this along with other socially conservative antics will drag his vote down if a credible leftist alternative appears in the future.

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MORENA gubernatorial candidate accused of rape will still stand in Guerrero
AMLO can get away with this now due to the fact that other parties really are not better at this, but eventually this along with other socially conservative antics will drag his vote down if a credible leftist alternative appears in the future.

My impression of the AMLO era in general is that he's been a big disappointment but still manifestly better than the alternatives.

Indeed he is

currently there’s a renegotiation of private prison contracts along with the President just now caring about undocumented folks by pressing the US government to get them vaccinated. Whether he actually believes in what he does or it’s all cold electoral calculus, he’s much better than the likely alternatives.

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General Salvador Cienfuegos exonerated

AMLO isn’t stupid enough to risk angering the military and getting overthrown in a coup.

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General Salvador Cienfuegos exonerated

AMLO isn’t stupid enough to risk angering the military and getting overthrown in a coup.

Is there a serious risk of a military coup in Mexico? Seems to me Mexico has one of the least politicized militaries in Latin America and there's been no coup for more than a century.

The PRI has staffed yes-men in power since the 1920s, taking the risk is not worth it to try and figure this out.

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Femicide protests escalate

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Felix Salgado barred from running due to financial improprieties

🦀 🦀 🦀

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Somewhat late, but Hidalgo recently became the third Mexican state to decriminalize abortion for the first 12 weeks of a woman's pregnancy. Honestly, despite how disappointing AMLO has been, MORENA has been moving quickly on trying to push for decriminalizing abortion, passing gay marriage, etc. at the state level. All of the MORENA state legislators in Hidalgo voted to decriminalize abortion as an example, while all of the PRI and PAN voted against the measure.

Also, would talking about 2022 election polls be fine here? Or should that go in another thread entirely?

I don’t believe we have a thread on the International Elections board up yet, so go ahead.

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Yucatan joins Baja California and Sinaloa in legalizing gay marriage

With the decision, Yucatán became the third state, after Sinaloa and Baja California in June, to legalize same-sex marriage this year and the twenty-second state to recognize the rights of gender diverse people in Mexico.

By the end of this year, the states of Durango, Sonora, Tamaulipas and Veracruz are also expected to approve equal marriage law. The legislators of the ruling National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) party have vowed to push the bill in the states of Edomex, Querétaro and Tabasco when they assume the new local congresses.

Equal marriages are legal in Mexico. In November 2015, the SJCN declared unconstitutional the state civil codes that prevent same-sex marriages, however, almost a third of the states have resisted reforming their law. In those states, in order to access the right, the couples have to file for legal protection.

Thank you AMLO for all that you have done for the LGBTQ community.Let the haters seethe at how fabulous we all are.

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https://mobile.twitter.com/AmericaElige/status/1449812413268758528

AMLO is shaping up to not only be the most effective leader in continental North America, but the best as well. Things are better down south compared to the North then ever before.

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Sorry, I meant currently compared to their Northern or Southern neighbors, which is more of an indictment on how awful they are compared to AMLO.

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Sorry, I meant currently compared to their Northern or Southern neighbors, which is more of an indictment on how awful they are compared to AMLO.

That doesn't change how dumb it is, unless you drop the Northern part and define Southern as only Guatemala.

Well I can now drop Honduras too

Colima has become the 6th state in Mexico to decriminalize abortion. A recent Supreme Court ruling in Mexico makes abortion decriminalized nationwide, but this is making it official in the state. Interesting dichotomy to the U.S with Roe v. Wade potentially being overturned.

Based, no wonder AMLO’s approvals are sky high

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Colima has become the 6th state in Mexico to decriminalize abortion. A recent Supreme Court ruling in Mexico makes abortion decriminalized nationwide, but this is making it official in the state. Interesting dichotomy to the U.S with Roe v. Wade potentially being overturned.

Based, no wonder AMLO’s approvals are sky high

I assumed you were being sarcastic but I looked up AMLO's approvals and was surprised to find that they actually are still very high, compared to the widespread sense even among leftists north of the border that he's been disappointing. Interesting difference of perception between the Mexican and Anglo-American publics.

The thing is that most of what AMLO does is pretty mediocre. He runs a fiscally conservative policy during even a pandemic and is not friendly towards labor and social movements, and outside of weed and promising to nationalize the Lithium mines, his tenure isn’t very much about doing things moreso it is a pause on further subjugation and privatization to the forces in the North. In fact he’s probably ramped up attacks on the Mexican Left as indicated by the string of assassinations and harassment the EZLN have been experiencing, along with going after pipeline fuel thieves the Popular Revolution Army depends its revenue on. His popularity comes from style in owning the opposition and branding himself as being generally more down to earth compared to the opposition.

It should be noted that, outside of his policies being very agreeable and inoffensive to the opposition in terms of social spending, they are policies with overwhelming support among the Mexican youth. AMLO can just sit back and reward goodies before and after each election easy-peasy, something the PRI in its hubris decided to cut back on in its neoliberal turn and that PAN and PRD were themselves never able to accomplish without pushback from the deep state’s loyal civil servants. These aren’t problems faced in Mexico now.

The future will probably be a weaker MORENA lasting at least one more term after AMLO retires, albeit fractured.

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Caribbean economic agreement close to formation

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Lithium declared a “State Heritage

…The reform was approved in a record time in both houses of the Congress. President AMLO presented it in the Chamber of Deputies on April 18. The same day, the lower house discussed the reform, voted on it and passed it with 275 votes in favor, 24 against and 187 abstentions. The next day, on April 19, the Senate also debated the reform and sanctioned it with 87 votes in favor, 20 against and 16 abstentions.

The head of state sent the measure to the legislature after the electricity reform that he was prioritizing failed to garner the two-thirds majority in the lower house on Sunday, April 17. The electricity reform presented by AMLO sought to nationalize Mexico’s energy industry by rolling back the process that opened it up to foreign and private investment in 2013. It contained a provision to nationalize lithium. In the face of the right-wing opposition’s explicit refusal to back it, AMLO vowed to protect lithium and indicated that he would send a mining reform to secure the country’s lithium resources in case electricity reform didn’t get required votes.

The new mining law recognizes lithium as a heritage of the nation, and reserves it for the benefit of the people of Mexico. It elevates lithium to the category of “strategic mineral”, and prohibits granting concessions, licenses, contracts, permits, assignments or authorizations for its exploitation to private corporations.
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Knowing AMLO, he’s probably not going to nationalize the Chinese mine, but either way this move is promising. Mexico, through years of its people tearing down the fascistic PRI regime, will have working people with strong solidarity together against the bosses and having to experience less exploitation of its resources by rentier multinationals and the employed local sellouts.

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Lithium declared a “State Heritage

…The reform was approved in a record time in both houses of the Congress. President AMLO presented it in the Chamber of Deputies on April 18. The same day, the lower house discussed the reform, voted on it and passed it with 275 votes in favor, 24 against and 187 abstentions. The next day, on April 19, the Senate also debated the reform and sanctioned it with 87 votes in favor, 20 against and 16 abstentions.

The head of state sent the measure to the legislature after the electricity reform that he was prioritizing failed to garner the two-thirds majority in the lower house on Sunday, April 17. The electricity reform presented by AMLO sought to nationalize Mexico’s energy industry by rolling back the process that opened it up to foreign and private investment in 2013. It contained a provision to nationalize lithium. In the face of the right-wing opposition’s explicit refusal to back it, AMLO vowed to protect lithium and indicated that he would send a mining reform to secure the country’s lithium resources in case electricity reform didn’t get required votes.

The new mining law recognizes lithium as a heritage of the nation, and reserves it for the benefit of the people of Mexico. It elevates lithium to the category of “strategic mineral”, and prohibits granting concessions, licenses, contracts, permits, assignments or authorizations for its exploitation to private corporations.
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Knowing AMLO, he’s probably not going to nationalize the Chinese mine, but either way this move is promising. Mexico, through years of its people tearing down the fascistic PRI regime, will have working people with strong solidarity together against the bosses and having to experience less exploitation of its resources by rentier multinationals and the employed local sellouts.

Tearing them down and putting up…another broad machine party that dresses itself up as leftist? Since AMLO’s idol seems to be López Mateos, we should be just a few years away from mass killings of student protesters if history repeats itself.

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Lithium declared a “State Heritage

…The reform was approved in a record time in both houses of the Congress. President AMLO presented it in the Chamber of Deputies on April 18. The same day, the lower house discussed the reform, voted on it and passed it with 275 votes in favor, 24 against and 187 abstentions. The next day, on April 19, the Senate also debated the reform and sanctioned it with 87 votes in favor, 20 against and 16 abstentions.

The head of state sent the measure to the legislature after the electricity reform that he was prioritizing failed to garner the two-thirds majority in the lower house on Sunday, April 17. The electricity reform presented by AMLO sought to nationalize Mexico’s energy industry by rolling back the process that opened it up to foreign and private investment in 2013. It contained a provision to nationalize lithium. In the face of the right-wing opposition’s explicit refusal to back it, AMLO vowed to protect lithium and indicated that he would send a mining reform to secure the country’s lithium resources in case electricity reform didn’t get required votes.

The new mining law recognizes lithium as a heritage of the nation, and reserves it for the benefit of the people of Mexico. It elevates lithium to the category of “strategic mineral”, and prohibits granting concessions, licenses, contracts, permits, assignments or authorizations for its exploitation to private corporations.
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Knowing AMLO, he’s probably not going to nationalize the Chinese mine, but either way this move is promising. Mexico, through years of its people tearing down the fascistic PRI regime, will have working people with strong solidarity together against the bosses and having to experience less exploitation of its resources by rentier multinationals and the employed local sellouts.

Tearing them down and putting up…another broad machine party that dresses itself up as leftist? Since AMLO’s idol seems to be López Mateos, we should be just a few years away from mass killings of student protesters if history repeats itself.

What does AMLO have that the PRI didn’t? Anti-Americanism? The PRI talked a big game about solidarity with workers and nationalized industries (Cárdenas, López Mateos). Salinas had massive approval ratings early on in his term just like AMLO. On the other hand, AMLO has cut funding for health and social services and is barreling ahead with the Tren Maya despite opposition from indigenous and environmental activists. Is that strong solidarity with working people?

Well I wasn’t saying that AMLO is really responsible for the recent win at that auto plant over the now Morena-affiliated yellow union nor the root cause of the PRI’s fall. I’m just saying that the Mexican people collectively worked to free themselves and there’s been a lot of victories, especially this nationalization order.

I myself won’t vote for Morena next election on account that then winning any more decisively might make them less likely to give goody packages, but Morena is a coalition after all, made up of PRIistas like Salgado and genuine leftists like PT-adjacents and Socialist Alternative entryists.

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Lithium declared a “State Heritage

…The reform was approved in a record time in both houses of the Congress. President AMLO presented it in the Chamber of Deputies on April 18. The same day, the lower house discussed the reform, voted on it and passed it with 275 votes in favor, 24 against and 187 abstentions. The next day, on April 19, the Senate also debated the reform and sanctioned it with 87 votes in favor, 20 against and 16 abstentions.

The head of state sent the measure to the legislature after the electricity reform that he was prioritizing failed to garner the two-thirds majority in the lower house on Sunday, April 17. The electricity reform presented by AMLO sought to nationalize Mexico’s energy industry by rolling back the process that opened it up to foreign and private investment in 2013. It contained a provision to nationalize lithium. In the face of the right-wing opposition’s explicit refusal to back it, AMLO vowed to protect lithium and indicated that he would send a mining reform to secure the country’s lithium resources in case electricity reform didn’t get required votes.

The new mining law recognizes lithium as a heritage of the nation, and reserves it for the benefit of the people of Mexico. It elevates lithium to the category of “strategic mineral”, and prohibits granting concessions, licenses, contracts, permits, assignments or authorizations for its exploitation to private corporations.
…

Knowing AMLO, he’s probably not going to nationalize the Chinese mine, but either way this move is promising. Mexico, through years of its people tearing down the fascistic PRI regime, will have working people with strong solidarity together against the bosses and having to experience less exploitation of its resources by rentier multinationals and the employed local sellouts.

Tearing them down and putting up…another broad machine party that dresses itself up as leftist? Since AMLO’s idol seems to be López Mateos, we should be just a few years away from mass killings of student protesters if history repeats itself.

What does AMLO have that the PRI didn’t? Anti-Americanism? The PRI talked a big game about solidarity with workers and nationalized industries (Cárdenas, López Mateos). Salinas had massive approval ratings early on in his term just like AMLO. On the other hand, AMLO has cut funding for health and social services and is barreling ahead with the Tren Maya despite opposition from indigenous and environmental activists. Is that strong solidarity with working people?

Well I wasn’t saying that AMLO is really responsible for the recent win at that auto plant over the now Morena-affiliated yellow union nor the root cause of the PRI’s fall. I’m just saying that the Mexican people collectively worked to free themselves and there’s been a lot of victories, especially this nationalization order.

I myself won’t vote for Morena next election on account that then winning any more decisively might make them less likely to give goody packages, but Morena is a coalition after all, made up of PRIistas like Salgado and genuine leftists like PT-adjacents and Socialist Alternative entryists.

"collectively"

In the 2000 election

University graduates voted PAN 60-22
Preparatory graduates voted PAN 53-28
Secondary graduates voted PAN 49-34
Primary graduates voted PRI 46-35
Non-graduates voted PRI 46-30

The fall of the PRI was the result of the rejection by the Mexican middle class of corrupt governance. It was not some kind of "workers revolt" and if anything MORENA is the closest successor to the old PRI.

Education is not an indicator of occupation nor class

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https://mobile.twitter.com/lopezobrador_/status/974085403329245185

Gross.

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The election commission has always been a politicized institution, and lately its been aligned through coalescence with the previous coalition of chaos.

Saying this, elections mean very little with Morena maximizing power in the Cortes General or what it is and utterly wrecking the opposing coalition so well that they’ve stopped trying to seriously deliver and campaign since the earliest local elections after taking power. Until AMLO retires there won’t be an election that means something.