Posted on 07/01/2025 4:21:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
On June 1, 2025, Mexicans were called to vote for judges, magistrates, and Supreme Court justices. It was the first major implementation of a sweeping judicial reform passed in the twilight of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s administration. The change was framed as a democratization of justice, but it was a masterclass in judicial capture.
People should be alarmed. Mexico is undergoing a transformation that compromises the separation of powers, individual rights, and the very conditions that allow for sustained prosperity.
Giovanni Sartori, the Italian political theorist, warned that when democracy is reduced to majority rule without constraints, it ceases to represent the whole demos. Instead, it becomes a tool for tyranny. That is precisely the path Mexico has embarked upon.
Supporters of López Obrador have framed the judicial elections as a triumph of the people. Social media was flooded with slogans: “The people won!” or “Now justice will be ours!” But popular elections alone do not guarantee liberty, especially when orchestrated by a political machine that controls the executive and legislative branches and now seeks to subjugate the judiciary.
The electoral process was hardly democratic. Candidate selection was controlled by committees dominated by Morena, the ruling party. Qualifications were minimal. Many selected candidates lacked serious credentials. Some had links to organized crime. The average voter faced dozens of names on multiple ballots, most of them unfamiliar and indistinguishable, which resulted in a low turnout. As the economist and former Deputy Governor of Mexico’s central bank, Manuel Sánchez, noted, it was an unmanageable farce dressed in democratic clothing.
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The trick of Mexican politics is to figure out how to profit by making the system of government worse.
Mexico is a corrupt failed narco state.
Mexican justice is lying dead in a pool of blood with brains spilling out and passers-by hardly noticing.
Mexico had justice???????
BUILD A BIGGER and BETTER WALL FAST!!!!!
I used to travel and work in Mexico/Central America. In the 1990s, the “justice system” with regards to auto accidents was explained to me. If two cars are involved in the accident, whichever family of the two drivers arrives first gets to claim victimhood, and the other driver must pay up.
BUILD A BIGGER and BETTER WALL FAST!!!!!
Mexico’s main export seems to be its people.
And drugs.
So, pretty much like the current United States
Mexico needs a monarch.
“Mexico’s main export seems to be its people.”
You are overlooking motor vehicle parts.
“The United States is the largest goods importer in the world. U.S. goods imports from the world totaled $3.2 trillion in 2022, up 14.6 percent ($413.7 billion) from 2021. China was the top supplier of goods to the United States, accounting for 16.5 percent of total goods imports. The top five suppliers of U.S. goods imports in 2022 were: China ($536.3 billion), Mexico ($454.8 billion), Canada ($436.6 billion), Japan ($148.1 billion), and Germany ($146.6 billion). U.S. goods imports from the European Union 27 were $553.3 billion.”
https://ustr.gov/countries-regions
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