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Mexico is getting a little enemy-like these days
American Thinker ^ | 10/21/2024 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 10/21/2024 9:38:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

With the election and inauguration of Claudia Sheinbaum to the presidency, Mexico is rapidly descending into a dictatorship.

Here's the marquee case:

#Mexico's entering a #constitutionalcrisis. Pres @Claudiashein said she'll willfully fall in contempt of court after a federal judge orders congressional approval of the dismantling of the #judicialbranch halted due to legislative procedural violations-so much for the #RuleOfLaw. — Tony Payan (@PayanTony) October 19, 2024

 

Sheinbaum plans to ignore the courts and do what she wants, which doesn't portend much future for rule of law there. The MORENA party of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and Sheinbaum seems to have ambitions of becoming what its less-leftist rival party, the PRI, became -- what Mario Vargas Llosa once called "the perfect dictatorship." The PRI, after all, did last about 70 years of one-party rule, roughly the same as the old Soviet Union. But nobody called it a dictatorship, or noticed the Mexicans fleeing its brand of socialism as they came north in the last half of the 20th century, not the way they noticed refugees from communism. But it was roughly the same dynamic, with the PRI only a little less horrible than Fidel Castro's Cuba or Erich Honecker's East Germany.

How much worse it could get when the one-party in question is not the crony-corruption oriented PRI, which ran itself like a blue-city machine focused on spoils for loyalists, to a far-left party focused on fundamental transformation, which is what MORENA is. Hugo Chavez, anyone?

While we may dismiss this as their own stupid decisions at the voting booth, one thing we can't dismiss is how they're turning their country into a base for all of America's worst adversaries.

They've allowed Mexico City to become a prime spy base for the Russians,

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; claudiasheinbaum; cuba; iran; mexico; nicaragua; russia; venezuela
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They've sucked up to China, Russia and Iran, as well as all the crummy failed socialist hellholes in the region, such as Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, inviting them in, doing state projects with them, expanding their 'footprint' in Mexico, supporting their interests in United Nations votes, handing out 'free' oil to Cuba despite their state oil company's debts, all to tweak Uncle Sam.
1 posted on 10/21/2024 9:38:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Here’s Arturo McFields Yescas, writing in The Hill:

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4942231-under-its-new-president-mexicos-foreign-policy-heads-down-dangerous-path/

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An unfriendly foreign policy towards the U.S. in on the rise. President Sheinbaum delivered a diplomatic blow to the U.S. Ambassador in Mexico, Ken Salazar, saying that she will not communicate or meet with any governmental secretary without first consulting the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This is how Mexico treats its main commercial partner and the recipient of 83 percent of its exports.

Sheinbaum has also snubbed President Biden. He announced plans for a meeting with her, but she surprisingly said no. “I don’t have plans to meet with him soon,” said Sheinbaum. She also noted that Mexico wants to be “very respectful” of the U.S. electoral process.

Sheinbaum published on X that she spoke by telephone with her U.S. counterpart, stating that they will continue to work on economic, cultural and trade matters. She omitted security and migration issues, even though these are fundamental areas for the U.S. The silence on these matters says a lot.

She likes the economics and trade. She has no plans to help out on cartel activity or migrant surges.


2 posted on 10/21/2024 9:39:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Nothing new under the sun.


3 posted on 10/21/2024 9:41:44 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: SeekAndFind

They are still pissed about that San Jacinto thingy............


4 posted on 10/21/2024 9:44:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ve always considered those low-lifes below the border an enemy of America since they opened the way for the invaders to infiltrate America. Kind of like Laos allowing the Viet Cong to flank the U.S. forces by allowing the commie pigs to operate freely throughout their country.


5 posted on 10/21/2024 9:46:30 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I've come to the conclusion that the world is made up of millions of Three Stooges comedians.)
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To: SeekAndFind
But nobody called it a dictatorship, or noticed the Mexicans fleeing its brand of socialism as they came north in the last half of the 20th century, not the way they noticed refugees from communism.

Two key differences:
Mexico didn't prevent people from leaving.
Mexico had no pretensions of expanding its system into a regional or global empire.
6 posted on 10/21/2024 9:48:23 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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Mexico IS the enemy. Let's not mince words.

They are run by cartels and their influence. They have long had the opinion that western US is theirs and belongs to back with Mexico. The "invasion" is intentional

7 posted on 10/21/2024 9:51:21 AM PDT by llevrok (Say NO to a fourth Obama term!)
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To: Red Badger

They are still pissed about that San Jacinto thingy...


Yes, they are and always will be. They inherited a bunch of land from the Spanish Empire and were unable to hold on to it.

Many don’t realize that as you go north from Mexico City, the geography just keeps getting crappier. . So Mexicans stayed home in a place where the weather and growing season is perfect year-round.

Americans, not used to such a thing were eagerly willing to settle in places Mexico considered wastelands. So after 20 years of ownership, they lost the northern half of their territory. As Porfirio Diaz put it, “Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States.”

No Mexican politician wants to be seen as cozying up to the U.S. As for not wanting to meet with Biden, who can blame her?


8 posted on 10/21/2024 9:56:09 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: llevrok

It is called the “Reconquista.” It’s progressing very well.


9 posted on 10/21/2024 9:58:15 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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Good article by AT. Thanks for posting.

...or noticed the Mexicans fleeing its brand of socialism...

The purpose of socialism is communism.

10 posted on 10/21/2024 10:00:39 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: SeekAndFind

We have an enemy on the southern border.


11 posted on 10/21/2024 10:01:01 AM PDT by ealgeone
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“ They’ve sucked up to China, Russia and Iran, as well as all the crummy failed socialist hellholes in the region”

So they’re Democrats.


12 posted on 10/21/2024 10:07:58 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (It’s my favorite Holiday time at FR: Fear Porn Season)
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To: SeekAndFind

They’ve been the enemy ever since they facilitated the illegal alien caravans crossing their country to invade ours.


13 posted on 10/21/2024 10:11:23 AM PDT by farmguy ( )
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To: SeekAndFind
Mexico is rapidly descending into a dictatorship

It's a narco terrorist state with 95% corrupt politicians, and really can't get much worse.

14 posted on 10/21/2024 10:12:50 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: SeekAndFind

Mexico elected a Jewish female socialist with a Berkeley education, and is amazed that she shows signs of being an authoritarian.


15 posted on 10/21/2024 10:14:14 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Ignoring the law? Hummmm, that sounds familiar to me...


16 posted on 10/21/2024 10:15:12 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: SeekAndFind

“Mexico is getting a little enemy-like these days”

Is that because they know the Biden administration is like a passel of inept losers that don’t have the slightest idea of how to govern?


17 posted on 10/21/2024 10:18:05 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: SeekAndFind

Should have finished them off in 1848 while there was time for real reform. By now they would not have been such a problem and we would have had fruit pickers without all the guff.


18 posted on 10/21/2024 10:23:32 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (More important than why there was nobody protecting the AGR roof, how did Crooks know that?)
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Mexico elected a Jewish female enviornmentalist socialist with a Berkeley education,

She shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with AlGore.

As Enviornmental Minister under Obrador she kept quiet as he focused on oil and killed green projects. Expect that to change,

19 posted on 10/21/2024 10:24:34 AM PDT by TexasGator (FIXED! I. I I l I l l "l)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
I’ve always considered those low-lifes below the border an enemy of America since they opened the way for the invaders to infiltrate America.

They not only opened their southern border, they then provided the escalator that brought the invaders north to our southern border. Railroads, buses probably food and clean clothes as well.

Mexico an enemy? It should come as no surprise; they have had communist administrations for the past several cycles.

If so, they have tens of thousands of covert operators already in our country. We are thoroughly infiltrated and dangerously compromised.

It is part of the soft-coup chaos essential for the Obama-Biden-Harris party's agenda.

20 posted on 10/21/2024 10:31:06 AM PDT by frog in a pot (Men can have babies and play in female sports and claims of 2020 election fraud are false.)
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