Mexico General Discussion: Amlodipine

[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.
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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.

"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.

[JM1295]

The state of Guerrero becomes the 8th state to decriminalize abortion:

https://twitter.com/CarinZissis/status/1526784229903941633?t=BIFnIBETcio7BIHOYS9...
Interesting given Guerrero is one of the few states that still hasn't moved to officially pass gay marriage legalization despite the Supreme Court officially legalizing it nationwide.

[PSOL]

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

Gross.

[Lourdes]

The State of México, the most populous state in the country, has today finally legalized marriage equality.

https://twitter.com/Legismex/status/1579899954394697728

There are now only three states where marriage equality has yet to be enacted: Tamaulipas, Guerrero, and Tabasco.

[Lourdes]

...and it's finally happened! 🏳️‍🌈

The remaining holdout states that had yet to legalize marriage equality have finally acted in legalizing it this month. After Tabasco approved it last week and Guerrero yesterday, Tamaulipas has this evening become the final state to legalize marriage equality. Marriage equality is now enacted in every state in Mexico!

https://twitter.com/LaListanews/status/1585415028865474560

[JM1295]

AMLO still has a little less than 2 years left in his sexenio, but things are already moving fast for the 2024 presidential election. It's looking more and more likely that Sheinbaum will be MORENA's candidate and next President of Mexico, but curious who the opposition puts up with Ricardo Anaya or Lilly Tellez or someone entirely different. I really struggle to see the opposition make any serious inroads until after 2024, but I guess the margins in CDMX could be interesting after the surprising MORENA losses in the 2021 midterms.

[Frodo]

President Obrador wants to (effectively) dismantle democracy in Mexico:

Mexico owes its young democracy to its elections institute. The president wants to dismantle it

The ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party controlled ballot boxes, voter rolls and even tallied votes. Unsurprisingly, the party won every time.

It became known as “the perfect dictatorship,” an authoritarian regime that rarely resorted to brute force because it so decisively controlled elections.

That all crumbled in 2000, when a candidate from another party won the presidency for the first time in seven decades. It was all thanks to a groundbreaking 1996 reform that shielded the newly formed national electoral institute from political interference.

Now the institute that helped birth Mexico’s democracy is under attack.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a leftist populist whose party controls both houses of Congress and most state governorships, is pushing for a dramatic overhaul of the institute that critics say would strip away its autonomy and once again concentrate power in the hands of the ruling party.

[CumbrianLefty]

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss?

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss?

Always has been. Can’t wait for girlboss dedazo President Sheinbaum.

[PSOL]

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.