Mexico General Discussion: Amlodipine

[Libertas Vel Mors]

I thought this would have been mentioned, but seeing PAN and Spain's far-right and ultraconservative VOX meet together with the goal of "stopping the spread of communism" is just a perfect representation of how bad the political opposition to AMLO is. There is a legitimate case to be made against AMLO and MORENA, but the opposition insists on shooting itself in the foot. This comes after promises of PAN moderating and modernizing itself.

Why would PAN moderate? It's a regular center-right party. Them meeting with Vox speaks more to Vox being a regular right wing party than anything else.

[Libertas Vel Mors]

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.

lol

[Libertas Vel Mors]

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.

[Libertas Vel Mors]

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.

[Libertas Vel Mors]

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

It absolutely is. What, you think a bunch of those non-middle school graduates are bankers in Mexico City? That a bunch of those university graduates are itinerant farmers? Education is not the same as income, but that doesn't mean there isn't a high correlation between the two in Mexico.