MEXICO & CHICANO CULTURE

ROGER BOYD—This year, Sheinbaum was elected as the President of Mexico with 60% of the vote! The attack of the bought and paid for Western mainstream media upon the democratically elected president was nearly immediate . The Atlantic Monthly chimed out “Women Can Be Autocrats Too, Mexico’s new president follows her predecessor’s authoritarian path” authored by the dependable US oligarch propagandist tool David Frum. In US mainstream media Newspeak, the word “authoritarian” means any foreign leader that is not a vassal to the US; irrespective of the nature of the government involved. “Democratic” or “Popular” tends to mean any leader who is a US vassal; irrespective of the nature of the government involved. In this Newspeak, Sheinbaum is authoritarian while the unelected Zelensky who has banned the opposition parties, media and even religious orders while depending on the support of a bunch of fascist thugs is defined as “democratic”. As is the Zionist apartheid state, whose genocidal and ethnic cleansing policies Sheinbaum opposes.

FRED REED—He probably thinks of Mexicans as just gardeners and rapists and we have all these beautiful advanced weapons and beautiful drones and things with blinking lights. A pack of rapists armed with garden trowels couldn’t possibly be difficult to defeat by the US. I mean, get serious: Dope dealers against the Marines? A cakewalk. You know, like Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. That sort of cakewalk. Let’s think what an expedition against the narcos would entail, what it would face. To begin with, Mexico is a huge country of 127 million souls with the narcos spread unevenly across it. You can’t police a nation that size with a small force, or even with a large force. A (preposterous) million soldiers would be well under one percent of the population. Success would be impossible even if that population helped you. Which it wouldn’t.

FRED REED—Things are different, at first physically and then, as you begin to understand the place, profoundly. In any town you find a plaza, unlike any other plaza in any other town, and a church, unlike any other church. Both will be old. The local hotel will be locally owned, alive with color, idiosyncratic. Mexico was not designed at corporate. Nor was it designed by people whose interests were only money, efficiency, and the economy born of uniformity.

TAMARA PEARSON—Biden called on the Cuban government to “refrain from violence” – a hypocritical stance given the police murders and repression in his own country. “We are assessing how we can be helpful to the people of Cuba,” said White House spokesperson Jen Psaki, using the savior discourse, but not considering repealing the sanctions.

Legendary billboard with Fidel’s encoraging words: “Onward. We’re doing fine!”

Meanwhile, US vice-president Kamala Harris has been making a show of helping Central America and Mexico by ostensibly addressing corruption and the “root causes” of migration in the region. Seven months into the year and no actual help has arrived, but she did tell migrants fleeing for their lives not to come to the US, and the US has kept its border closed – in stark violation of human rights and its own asylum seeker laws.

JOAQUIN FLORES—Fundamentally, at the level of social ideology AMLO’s policies explode the myth that mass migration outside of natural disasters and calamities, is an inherent and positive feature of the human experience. It exposes the great lie that left to their own devices, people will inherently desire to uproot themselves and become a deracinated collection of individuals deprived of peoplehood and left only as atoms subject to consumerism. In reality, these are all negative aspects of globalization itself.