Mexico General Discussion: Amlodipine

[Tintrlvr]

Vox is a far-right party, and I don't think they would even overly dissent from that categorisation.

Right, whereas PAN is supposed to be a moderate center-right party. Vox admits that it appeals to maybe 15-20% of voters at the absolute maximum and is mostly interested in pressuring other, more center-right to centrist parties to adopt right-wing policies than it is in achieving majority support for itself. That's a perfectly viable and reasonable electoral strategy for a party on the fringe in a party and electoral system like Spain's. PAN is the exact opposite, at least in theory; it's supposed to be one of the center-right to centrist parties that actually can sometimes achieve a majority or near-majority support for itself. However, it is obviously failing at doing so and falling into a trap of being too narrow ideologically to win elections.

[JM1295]

Another key ruling when it comes to abortion from Mexico's Supreme Court where the court rules it is unconstitutional for states to recognize human life begins at conception.

https://twitter.com/CarinZissis/status/1436062401288458240

This is going to apply directly to Sinaloa's state constitution and will decriminalize abortion in the state, but this kind of ruling, like in Coahuila, can be used with other Mexican states as well.

[Lourdes]

There's more momentum for LGBTQ rights in Mexico this week as the state of Sonora has voted to legalize marriage equality today.

https://twitter.com/ProyectoPuente/status/1441127759732871183

This comes one day after the legislature in Querétaro voted in favor of marriage equality.

[PSOL]

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.

[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

[Estrella]

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.

Curious that you of all people would say that given how little the AMLO administration has done. Fox, Calderón or even fxcking EPN probably passed more progressive, dare I say left-wing policies than him despite the latter two being incompetent morons who spent their terms literally setting the country on fire.

But then things like this often happen when Westerners - especially Americans - of whatever political stripe observe Latin American politics. It's easy to get carried away by grandiose speeches about socialism and forget to check whether they actually mean anything. I should know, I used to do it myself.

[PSOL]

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.

[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.

[JM1295]

Colima has become the 6th state in Mexico to decriminalize abortion. A recent Supreme Court ruling in Mexico makes abortion decriminalized nationwide, but this is making it official in the state. Interesting dichotomy to the U.S with Roe v. Wade potentially being overturned.

[PSOL]

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.

Well I can now drop Honduras too

Colima has become the 6th state in Mexico to decriminalize abortion. A recent Supreme Court ruling in Mexico makes abortion decriminalized nationwide, but this is making it official in the state. Interesting dichotomy to the U.S with Roe v. Wade potentially being overturned.

Based, no wonder AMLO’s approvals are sky high

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Colima has become the 6th state in Mexico to decriminalize abortion. A recent Supreme Court ruling in Mexico makes abortion decriminalized nationwide, but this is making it official in the state. Interesting dichotomy to the U.S with Roe v. Wade potentially being overturned.

Based, no wonder AMLO’s approvals are sky high

I assumed you were being sarcastic but I looked up AMLO's approvals and was surprised to find that they actually are still very high, compared to the widespread sense even among leftists north of the border that he's been disappointing. Interesting difference of perception between the Mexican and Anglo-American publics.

[Lourdes]

The Zacatecas legislature has today voted to become the fourth state this year to approve marriage equality. With the momentum it's had recently, I can very well see marriage equality existing in every state throughout Mexico in the very near future.

[PSOL]

Colima has become the 6th state in Mexico to decriminalize abortion. A recent Supreme Court ruling in Mexico makes abortion decriminalized nationwide, but this is making it official in the state. Interesting dichotomy to the U.S with Roe v. Wade potentially being overturned.

Based, no wonder AMLO’s approvals are sky high

I assumed you were being sarcastic but I looked up AMLO's approvals and was surprised to find that they actually are still very high, compared to the widespread sense even among leftists north of the border that he's been disappointing. Interesting difference of perception between the Mexican and Anglo-American publics.

The thing is that most of what AMLO does is pretty mediocre. He runs a fiscally conservative policy during even a pandemic and is not friendly towards labor and social movements, and outside of weed and promising to nationalize the Lithium mines, his tenure isn’t very much about doing things moreso it is a pause on further subjugation and privatization to the forces in the North. In fact he’s probably ramped up attacks on the Mexican Left as indicated by the string of assassinations and harassment the EZLN have been experiencing, along with going after pipeline fuel thieves the Popular Revolution Army depends its revenue on. His popularity comes from style in owning the opposition and branding himself as being generally more down to earth compared to the opposition.

It should be noted that, outside of his policies being very agreeable and inoffensive to the opposition in terms of social spending, they are policies with overwhelming support among the Mexican youth. AMLO can just sit back and reward goodies before and after each election easy-peasy, something the PRI in its hubris decided to cut back on in its neoliberal turn and that PAN and PRD were themselves never able to accomplish without pushback from the deep state’s loyal civil servants. These aren’t problems faced in Mexico now.

The future will probably be a weaker MORENA lasting at least one more term after AMLO retires, albeit fractured.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Colima has become the 6th state in Mexico to decriminalize abortion. A recent Supreme Court ruling in Mexico makes abortion decriminalized nationwide, but this is making it official in the state. Interesting dichotomy to the U.S with Roe v. Wade potentially being overturned.

Based, no wonder AMLO’s approvals are sky high

I assumed you were being sarcastic but I looked up AMLO's approvals and was surprised to find that they actually are still very high, compared to the widespread sense even among leftists north of the border that he's been disappointing. Interesting difference of perception between the Mexican and Anglo-American publics.

My (not extremely deeply informed) Weltanschaaung for current Mexican politics is that, ever since his election, AMLO has essentially filled the big-tent populist void left by the PRI.

[PSOL]

Caribbean economic agreement close to formation

[JM1295]

Violence against journalists is ramping up in Mexico in 2022. It's always been an issue, but Mexico is averaging around a journalist killing a week with 5 journalists killed in 2022 already. For comparison, in 2021 there were 9 journalists killed in Mexico.

[Lourdes]

https://twitter.com/sopitas/status/1501342812737990660

On International Women's Day, Sinaloa has today voted to become the latest state to decriminalize abortion.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Is any headway being made on the femicide problem? I get that abortion legalization is also something Mexican feminists have been pushing for, but how all-in on it MORENA state governments and the Mexican judiciary are going is making me wonder if they're trying to deflect attention from a lack of progress on other issues.

[PSOL]

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.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

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.

[PSOL]

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.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

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?

[PSOL]

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.

[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.

[PSOL]

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