[ENGLISH] MEXICO IS TURNING INTO A TOTALITARIAN REGIME: FALL OF THE THREE UNION POWERS, ELECTORAL & HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISMS - CHAPTER 1: EXECUTIVE POWER

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INTRO/DISCLAIMER

The three constitutional union powers are meant to be the core pillars of a democracy, as within each of their separate faculties they provide limitations to one another ensuring just and proportional representation for each demographic within the republic. 

The purpose of this series of posts is to first, evidence highly authoritarian attitudes justified with populist rhetoric coming straight from the executive power to intentionally erode, and ultimately subject or capture the rest of these pillars and the organisms supervising their function, under the purpose of concentrating each and every Mexican sociopolítical actor under a single, identical agenda. 

Every point is backed by a mainstream media article so that, despite any presented reading of the summary, the portrayed events as of themselves are uncontested facts. Of course everyone is invited to perform their own research and arrive at their own conclusions. 

I promise this only gets worse as you keep reading. 

CAPTER 1: EXECUTIVE POWER 

Note: Mexico currently finds itself in it’s second national-populist presidential term, under what it’s elite politicians have narcissistically dubbed the “Fourth Transformation” (4T) likening themselves in advance to the country's greatest historic events and characters, and even Jesus Christ. The first presidential term was given a face by MORENA party member, the now ex president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) from December 1 2018 to September 30 2024, whence Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo has currently taken over the presidency as his successor in the transformation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Transformation

POINT 1: DOMESTIC POLICY, ALL POPULIST-FASCIST ALARMS GO OFF

> 1.1 AMLO’s campaign and rise to power was in lockstep with populism 101, from ethnonationalism, to “us vs the corrupt elites” rhetoric, to promises of vindication for the marginalized peoples: “For the good of all, the poor first”.

 https://www.brookings.edu/articles/andres-manuel-lopez-obrador-and-a-new-era-of-politics-in-mexico/

Keypoint:

> 1.2 With a GDP growth of 0.9%, the lowest in 36 years, the closest thing the regime has to fulfilling any of these socialpromises, and likely the explanation of his high popularity, is the massive universal welfare programs wherein they hand out money, specifically to the youth and the elderly.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanielparishflannery/2022/11/16/mexicos-presidents-social-programs-are-effective-at-boosting-his-popularity/

> 1.3 Yet AMLO had no problem criminalizing some murdered young men, falsely stating they got killed during a drug dealing. He is all about humanity, why would he do such a thing? Because this happened in Guanajuato, an opposition-governed state. 

https://politica.expansion.mx/presidencia/2023/12/20/el-presidente-pasa-de-defender-a-los-jovenes-a-vincularlos-con-consumo-de-drogas

https://periodicocorreo.com.mx/vida-publica/estudiantes-de-medicina-fueron-raptados-de-un-balneario-por-un-comando-fiscalia-de-guanajuato-20231207-87497.html

> 1.4 The executive power conditionates their attention to states and issues based on polítical interests, acting only if there is gain, or social pressure. 

https://aristeguinoticias.com/2301/mexico/que-el-gobierno-deje-de-hacerse-pendejo-maru-campos-video/

https://www.adiario.mx/estado/llama-la-diputacion-permanente-al-gobierno-federal-por-mal-estado-de-carreteras-en-chihuahua/

https://animalpolitico.com/estados/inundaciones-chalco-modulos-atencion-medica-gratis

> 1.5 With lagged response tines and insufficient help, the government's reaction to the last 2 hurricanes has been disastrous. 

https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2023/10/lopez-obrador-under-fire-after-hurricane-otis-devastates-the-port-of-acapulco/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mexicos-acapulco-still-reeling-hurricane-230300683.htmlhttps://apnews.com/article/mexico-acapulco-flooding-hurricane-john-aa0ed47dad2d51c54c3814f34b4a7876

A trust fund for disaster help got exterminated under accusations of corruption. 

https://www.debate.com.mx/politica/Desaparecio-el-Fonden-como-oficina-para-la-tranza-pero-no-los-fondos-para-desastres-AMLO-20231026-0039.html

Yet the Mexican military, dangerously close to the 4T regime, was charged with popular assistance yet they to be extremely corrupt and all around less efficient than previous administrations. 

https://vanguardia.com.mx/noticias/mexico/detectan-anomalias-en-apoyo-por-emergencia-del-huracan-otis-en-guerrero-EO13843564

> 1.6 The 4T is pro-nationalization of assets, with 2018 Amlo promising to strengthen local markets to be less reliable on foreign assets. He sure spooked away foreign investors but never strengthened anything, incompetently passing by the golden opportunity to become the U.S.’s most important trade partner as they decouple from China. 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanielparishflannery/2024/02/14/has-president-lopez-obrador-helped-mexicos-economy/

> 1.7. The 4T’s idea of progress, is to instead focus on felatory megaprojects of billionaire investments, all of them, we must remark, built and operated by military personnel and surrounded by corruption scandals involving even the expresident’s sons. They will take years before they become rentable, or have outright been immense failures: 

> 1.7.1 The AIFA airport, a failed promise still on lifeline support with billionaire government subsidies after 2 years of operation: A misleading government propaganda celebrates 78 million returns in an operative trimester, not accounting the 364 million it also got injected by the government on that period. 

https://animalpolitico.com/verificacion-de-hechos/te-explico/aifa-ganancias-subsidios-perdidas 

> 1.7.2 The “Megapharmacy of Welfare”, a pharaonic project sold as the world's biggest pharmacy, and the key to solve rampant medicine shortage abroad in Mexico through a nation-wide delivery. It actually only makes 44 deliveries a week. 

https://latinus.us/mexico/2024/9/6/la-megafarmacia-atiende-44-casos-cada-siete-dias-tardaria-170-mil-semanas-en-resolver-el-desabasto-123049.html 

> 1.7.3 The Tren Maya, a tragic railroad project whose economic, practical, ecological and even archaeological hazards have been denounced many times, as it literally flattens jungle territory, manglars and untaped antiquery treasure. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tren_Maya

Denounces of looting and destruction by an archeologist of the National Archeology and History Institute (INAH) have resulted in an investigation by said institute, publicly releasing a harsh character assasination of his personal career and summoning him to present his defense over administrative violation, for “misinforming the public” and “putting the data of third parties at risk”. 

https://www.proceso.com.mx/cultura/2024/10/30/arqueologo-critico-del-tren-maya-debera-comparecer-ante-la-funcion-publica-339450.html

If this sounds shady, It's because there is indeed a large traffic of influence and corruption network operating all around these mega projects, nicknamed “The Clan”, it is lead by AMLO’s sons. Their friends get fat rich from exclusive government contracts. 

https://latinus.us/portada/2024/1/9/el-clan-la-red-de-negocios-de-trafico-de-influencias-operada-por-gonzalo-bobby-lopez-beltran-en-el-tren-maya-105119.html

The military, unsurprisingly, is also involved in the corruption scheme (more on them in Point 5). 

https://www.youtube.com/live/2FJk0_rYNEI?si=-QDl9DRFXU-JH8Y3

The Superior Auditory of the Federation (ASF) detected irregularities in the Tren Maya budget by almost 800 million pesos. 

https://www.yucatan.com.mx/mexico/2024/02/20/tren-maya-irregularidades-por-casi-800-millones-de-pesos-senala-asf.html

> 1.7.4 The ‘Dos Bocas’ oil refinery: several inauguration events and statements of productivity standards were fraudulently made, most notably in September 2023 when AMLO promised it would be producing 290,000 gasoline barrels by the end of that year, but officially starting only until july 2024 with 170,000 daily barrels. 

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/pemex-ceo-dos-bocas-refinery-processing-crude-oil

There is corruption scandals around the project, even involving the state of Veracruz 's Morena governor, Rocío Nahle, accused of legitimate enrichment as she surveyed the project. 

https://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/opinion/alejo-sanchez-cano/2024/05/06/dos-bocas-no-refina-pero-produce-nuevos-ricos/

https://www.elheraldodetabasco.com.mx/local/que-empresas-fueron-beneficiadas-con-construccion-de-refineria-de-dos-bocas-12596090.html

And of course The Clan is involved again. 

https://contralacorrupcion.mx/se-extiende-la-red-de-andy-ahora-ganan-contrato-millonario-en-dos-bocas/

> 1.7.5 The Trans-atlantic Train is another project also corrupted by The Clan. 

https://www.msn.com/es-mx/noticias/other/revelan-jugosos-negocios-del-hijo-de-amlo-en-el-proyecto-tren-trans%C3%ADstmico/ar-AA1rciB2?apiversion=v2&noservercache=1&domshim=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1&batchservertelemetry=1&noservertelemetry=1

> 1.7.6 The Federal Electric Comission (CFE) and Mexican Petroleums (PEMEX) recently turned into public companies again, with both being left in red numbers with billionaire losses and productivity failures by their previous directors under AMLO. 

https://losreporteros.mx/claudia-sheinbaum-firma-decreto-para-devolver-caracter-publico-a-pemex-y-cfe-y-nacionalizar-trenes-de-pasajeros/?amp

> 1.7.7 PEMEX with 1.61 billion pesos in losses on the former director’s last trimester. 

https://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/economia/2024/10/29/pemex-registra-perdidas-de-161-mil-455-millones-de-pesos-al-cierre-de-gestion-de-octavio-romero/

A gas leak accident in Texas from a company recently acquired by PEMEX, resulted in 2 dead, 35 injured, and a 1 million dollar lawsuit. 

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2024/10/14/502875/pemex-deer-park-lawsuit-hydrogen-sulfide-release-injuries-workers/

> 1.7.8 CFE had 85.7 billion pesos in losses in the last trimester.

https://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/economia/2024/10/25/bartlett-deja-la-cfe-con-perdidas-de-857-mil-millones-de-pesos-al-tercer-trimestre-de-2024/

Former CFE director Manuel Bartlett, is a legendarily ancient and corrupt character who even earned an appearance as the character ‘Mr.X’ in the Narcos TV show. Bartlett can't set foot in the U.S. due to an investigation from that government for allegedly encovering narcs that murdered a DEA agent. 

https://mexicodailypost.com/2022/08/13/amlos-top-advisor-manuel-bartlett-and-former-jalisco-governor-linked-to-the-guadalajara-cartel-according-to-the-us-prosecutors-office/

Bartlett systematically bought properties at low cost and increased value at the periphery of the Maya Train. 

https://www.proceso.com.mx/reportajes/2024/8/3/la-sombra-del-tren-maya-el-paraiso-secreto-de-los-bartlett-video-334136.html

A man like this, who operated in the mandates of the biggest 4T public enemies like expresident Carlos Salinas de Gortari, is still given privileged positions on the government that promised to be a divorce from everything wrong with the past. 

> 1.7.9 By presidential decree, AMLO attempted to make the cost and information of each of these mega projects a matter of national security as to avoid transparency, but the Supreme Court and INAI (National Institute of Information Access), stopped him, 

https://diariodecuba.com/internacional/1684856798_47340.html 

(Though not on the Maya Train lol) 

https://www.yucatan.com.mx/mexico/2024/02/21/gobierno-de-amlo-oculta-costo-del-tren-maya-por-cinco-anos.html

1.8 The 4T handlement of other major public interests such as-

> Health, with corruption schemes praying on thw massive medicine shortages that AMLO himself caused when he cut ties with overseas distributors. 

https://latinus.us/mexico/2024/5/9/strongel-clan-los-hijos-del-presidente-lopez-obrador-el-negocio-de-las-medicinasstrong-114626.html

> Culture, with even the Three Filmaker Amigos, Alejandro Gonzales Iñarritu, Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuaron, begging the 4T not to extinguish a trust fund that helped filmmakers. 

https://www.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/noticia/2023/guillermo-del-toro-inarritu-y-cuaron-piden-a-scjn-no-desaparecer-al-fidecine.html

> Education, with mediocre new books for public schools featuring marxist ideology.

https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/la-sep-gasta-mas-de-87-mdp-en-libros-de-pedagogia-marxista/

-Have all been absent at best but mostly absurd populist disasters.

SUBPOINT 2: TYRANNICAL ANTI-PLURALISM

The 4T is unafraid to perform character assassinations AND openly use the whole power of the executive to prosecute those they signal as public enemies - Who are the enemies of fascists? 

> 2.1 Journalist Rafael Loret de Mola got his home vandalized. A chilling message was left on his desk: a knife pierced trough a note that only contained the letters “AMLO”.

https://rancherita.com.mx/noticias/detalles/149064/amenazan-de-muerte-al-periodista-rafael-loret-de-mola-video.html

> 2.2 Journalist turned public enemy by the regime, Carlos Loret de Mola (son of the former) was put on trial after getting sued by AMLO’s brother for releasing videos of him recieving ilegal money: “upside down world”, he declared. https://elpais.com/mexico/2024-02-27/carlos-loret-de-mola-se-sienta-en-el-banquillo-tras-ser-demandado-por-el-hermano-del-presidente-lopez-obrador.html

> 2.3 Carlos Loret is also the journalist whose media company, LatínUs, one of the few still openly critical, initially broke in the story of The Clan corruption network. https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2024/03/carlos-loret-the-journalist-who-exposed-amlos-family-corruption/

In retaliation, the 4T had the UIF (Federal Unity of Intelligence, used ideally to gather information from cartel members), investigate Loret and LatinUs in at least 2 occasions. 

https://forbes.com.mx/amlo-niega-perseguir-a-conductor-loret-de-mola-pese-a-investigacion/

https://piedepagina.mx/latinus-y-el-lavado-de-dinero-el-negocio-que-investiga-la-uif/

https://www.infobae.com/mexico/2024/06/22/loret-de-mola-se-lanza-contra-gobierno-de-amlo-por-nueva-investigacion-de-la-uif-en-su-contra-quiere-acabar-con-nosotros/

> 2.4 This ordeal also resulted in the public doxxing of personal information from Loret’s and several LatinUs collaborators, most infamously their salaries and properties. 

Here is an article with a timeline of AMLO’s attacks on the press:

https://latinus.us/mexico/2024/7/3/amlo-lo-vuelve-hacer-convierte-su-conferencia-matutina-en-una-tribuna-para-revelar-datos-personales-de-periodistas-ciudadanos-118504.html

We now have a punchline: whenever the narcs blow someone’s brains off, we don't ask “where is the government?” we ask “what's Loret's salary?”. 

> 2.5 Curiously, a day before a letter from a sentenced narco-politician that accuses AMLO of narco-ties was made public, the president doxxed one of Loret’s apartments once again. 

https://mayacomunicacion.com.mx/amlo-busca-renombrar-calle-en-polanco-como-carlos-salinas-de-gortari/

https://www.univision.com/noticias/america-latina/que-dice-la-carta-de-garcia-luna-sobre-amlo-y-por-que-ha-generado-fuertes-amlo 

I personally consider Carlos Loret de Mola and those who work at LatinUs to be absolute gigachads. Regardless of any ulterior or personal motive they might have, they are doing more for Mexico than the hundreds of propagandists payed by the 4T to whitewash this disaster of a country. And no, i'm not paid or sent by them in any shape or form, i state this in the case one of these propagandists fails to understand what sincere admiration is, given that they only engage in cult dynamics. 

LatinUs still continue to expose the 4T with quality work to this day. Check them out:

https://youtube.com/@latinusus?si=rKurU8rt34nPa7cI

> 2.6 When 3 different media outlets began reporting on alleged narco-ties, AMLO consolidated his reputation as the great journalist molester as he doxxed, during his daily press conference, the personal number of a New York Times bureau chief after they reported on narco ties and asked for comment. Then, he got into a public fight with YouTube after they took that video down, accusing the platform of “authoritary, arrogant” attitude.

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/politics/amlo-dox-new-york-times-journalist-cartel/

AMLO also tried to sue journalist Tim Golden for defamation

https://www.elsoldemexico.com.mx/mexico/sociedad/amlo-busco-denuciar-al-periodista-tim-golden-tras-reportaje-sobre-narco-11440742.html

The president and those mentioned in these investigations claimed it was all false, that there was a conspiracy between the media and the DEA to smear him, accusing the U.S. of interventionism. 

https://elpais.com/mexico/2024-05-09/lopez-obrador-descalifica-los-reclamos-de-la-dea-somos-un-pais-independiente-y-hay-reglas-que-se-tienen-que-seguir.html#?rel=mas

> 2.7 In retaliation for investigating the SEGALMEX corruption fraud and The Clan influence network, also from his personal “Mañanera” conference, AMLO performed a character assasination on Maria Amparo Casar, director of an anti-corruption civil organization, signaling her as a public enemy and doxxing personal information from her and her sons. On top of that, he had the General Prosecutor’s Office and the Unity of Intelligence perform investigations on all of them and on the anti-corruption organism itself. 

https://animalpolitico.com/politica/fgr-abre-investigacion-contra-maria-amparo-casar

https://www.infobae.com/mexico/2024/06/30/uif-investiga-a-maria-amparo-casar-y-otros-fundadores-de-mexicanos-contra-la-corrupcion/

> 2.8 AMLO engaged in twitch-streamer level of discussion where he clipchamped the fuck out of a commentator and had his whole cult attack her for something she was not even saying. It's so brain-rotting. 

https://www.radioformula.com.mx/nacional/2024/6/5/es-josefa-ortiz-de-dominguez-segunda-asi-se-mofo-amlo-de-dresser-video-819104.html

> 2.9 In 2022, journalist Ciro Gomez Leyva, also critical of the 4T, suffered an attempt on his life. AMLO said he didn’t dismiss the possibility it was all an auto attack to “affect them”. 

https://www.elsoldemexico.com.mx/mexico/sociedad/amlo-no-descarta-autoatentado-en-ataque-a-ciro-gomez-leyva-9358291.html

In September 2024, after endless public back and forths with the expresident, Ciro bluntly implied, on his program, whether AMLO was the one that ordered him killed. https://etcetera.com.mx/nacional/amlo-ciro-gomez-leyva-amigo-matarlo/

> 2.10 After suffering street harassment, another journalist told him, right at his face, that if anything were to happen to her, she would make him responsible for it. The president's reaction was apathetic. 

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-lopez-obrador-journalists-attacked-2f5acde2cacdb7af2a75f95dea3377ca?utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

Right then and there, the seated “public” of the Mañanera begins to ‘boo’ on the reporter, which basically confirms that around half the people there are paid 4T militants. 

https://x.com/ryo_hermoso/status/1823504205169967572?t=-WdMbtrz2rwnOFEfvOoBFQ&s=19

> 2.11 Journalist Anabel Hernandez, recently in the regime of current president Claudia Sheinbaum, suffered harassment on the streets of New York City, from a group associated and paid directly by MORENA. https://aztecreports.com/narcoland-author-anabel-hernandez-denounces-mexicos-ruling-morena-party-for-harassment/4294/

Hernandez, who wrote one of the three media articles that initially reported on narco-ties was also signaled as a DEA employee and demerited in the Mañanera, Now Hernandez seems to be locked on the 4T, claiming the same testimonies that got García jailed are the same accusing Amlo and MORENA of direct narco ties. 

She regularly puts out journalistic content that i consider at least interesting and worth checking out:

https://youtube.com/@narcosistema?si=gJadjcJad2zLGHhk

> 2.12 To clarify, the 4T president does all these transgressions from his daily press conference with no utter regard for presumption of innocence or any proper ways. Unable to disprove anything substantially and/or implicitly accepting the veracity of each accusation, each president, both Claudia and AMLO, resort to assassinating the character of those who criticize them before as large an audience as possible, as to send a sinister message to whoever might try something similar. 

It's not only that they are ignorant, Its not that they don't care if your safety is compromised; they actively want something bad to happen to you. And if it does, if one of their dipshit followers, hired or not, actually lays hands on you, they can be like “whoops, well don't do such bad journalism next time”. They're so evil, as proven by how AMLO, in one of his ufortunately common disgusting lies outright denided any murders on journalists during his term

https://elsoldechiapas.com/no-hemos-tenido-asesinatos-de-periodistas-asegura-amlo/

The presidents are perfectly aware of the cult of personality that surrounds them, and will not hesitate to send their dogs after whoever they are telling you to hate whenever you tune into the Mañanera, which was initially sold as a circular dialogue option but surprise, with Amlo snapping right then and there to critical questions, besides all the disgusting repression, it has only become the 4T’s most important propaganda tool. A sort of twisted reality show starring a fascist president telling you who to hate, what to love, how to think. Why? Because they tell you to. 

https://www.elimparcial.com/mexico/2024/07/08/amlo-explica-por-que-difunde-datos-de-latinus-es-dinero-publico-acusa/

> 2.13 Unfortunately, the strategy has worked. During the regime transition to Sheinbaum, there seems to have been a purge of critical media figures, including some pteviously mentioned. Here is a compilation list of the cases i am aware of, there could be more:

1.Maria Amparo Casar, at Grupo Formula. 

https://x.com/amparocasar/status/1836327085247181206

https://www.elimparcial.com/mexico/2024/09/18/maria-amparo-casar-tambien-deja-radio-formula-tras-salida-de-ciro-gomez-leyva-cambio-de-rumbo-o-despido/ 

2.Opposition Senator Lily Tellez, also at Grupo Formula, who was apparently never a welcomed figure to begin with. She finnaly got fired on october 2024.

https://youtu.be/ZjHjy29NBmc?si=wmOBek53feZQlSCU

3.Denisse Dresser

4.Paula Sofia

5.Aguilar Camín

6.Jorge G. castañeda 

7.Pablo Majluf

All from an analysis table at N+ network

https://julioastillero.com/ante-tanto-desprestigio-corren-de-programa-televisa-a-denise-dresser-aguilar-camin-y-jorge-castaneda

Also, not the first time a program lets Ms. Dressers go due to government pressures. 

https://www.infobae.com/america/mexico/2020/11/02/sin-denisse-dresser-ni-sergio-aguayo-carmen-aristegui-estreno-alineacion-en-su-mesa-de-analisis/

8.Gustavo Macalpin, whose unceremoniously destitution live on air by the network’s owner went viral. 

https://x.com/GuacamayanLeaks/status/1843679854744531140?t=36sGCN1im6vJE9m7j9rq5A&s=19

9.Canal Once terminated Primer Plano, a legendary polítical analysis table that had been on air since 1999, due to a “restructuring” at the network. 

https://www.infobae.com/mexico/2024/10/01/que-paso-con-canal-once-este-fue-el-polemico-anuncio-que-causo-preocupacion/

10.Andrea Barcena, at La Jornada 

https://x.com/pablo_majluf/status/1853434832463815134?t=KA66aCDbtazJexXF8DRthQ&s=19

I list each case because contrary to the 4T intentions, i don't want them to be forgotten. I admire some of them, mainly Denisse Dresser. The regime tells me to hate her, yet i can only see a great example of a liberal woman, as cunning as she is compasionate. Makes sense that this is the exact kind of people fascists need to crucify. 

> 2.14 On the other hand, many of government propagandist, at least from they payrolls, seem to be thriving. Thus bringing us a series of steps closer to a media landscape worthy of any fascist tyranny. 

https://x.com/MikaeloDelNorte/status/1491531576714403846?t=PLMNXr8Y9hNjB9hrV1FUGw&s=19

https://x.com/RealArturoH/status/1853227616615993511?t=LQmORz5UPnQZOJT6PrzBgQ&s=19

https://animalpolitico.com/verificacion-de-hechos/te-explico/television-publica-propaganda-morena

POINT 3: SO HUMANE, THEY LOVE THE MILITARY AND NARCS

> 3.1 Its time to adress the 4T’s concerning closeness to the military power, represented in Mexico by SEDENA (Secretary of National Defense). They’ve given them almost full control over national security/surveilance, with troops patrolling every city, the borders, and even being envowed civilian activities, from humanitary services, to billionaire government contracts to construct, supervise and operate industrial projects. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-04-18/amlo-usa-al-ejercito-en-sus-megaproyectos-y-la-inseguridad-en-mexico-se-agudiza-lv5q6l8j

https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-54850024

> 3.2 Salvador Cienfuegos, SEDENA director under the previous presidency, got captured by the DEA, only to then get taken back to México, announcing the justice process would continue there. 

AMLO’s administration reportedly pressured the U.S. to liberate him, threatening to límit DEA operations in Mexico. 

And also reportedly negotiated his freedom in exange for capturing another high ranking druglord. 

In January 14 2021, Mexican authorities informed he would be exonerated for insufficient proof. 

A day later, AMLO declassified the documents the U.S. Justice Departament used to accuse Cienfuegos, thus violating the “treaty of mutual legal assistance”, for which they expressed “deep disappointment”

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Cienfuegos

> 3.3 All of this happening, we must remark, in the context of the most violent presidential term in the country's modern history, with over 193,000 murders, surpassing the 130,000 of the previous one. Turns out AMLO’s peace was more lethal than Calderon’s war. 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanielparishflannery/2024/07/23/mexicos-new-president-faces-serious-security-challenges/

> 3.4 Part of the blame can be attributed to a disastrous security strategy, prioritizing the atention of “systemic causes” that perpetuate cartel violence over on the ground combat, as best summed up in the expresident’s own words: “hugs, not bullets”. 

https://youtu.be/UV9CZxsbRC8?si=RCV3dFspUCswtS1Y

Keypoint:

> 3.5 Just to clarify, what they mean by “attending systemic causes”, almost exclusively means the previously mentioned universal scholarships programs for all young students, or whatever other bullshit welfare policy they can leech funds and popularity from, like Universidades del Bienestar (welfare universities) 

https://losangelespress.org/mexico-violento/universidad-del-bienestar-en-la-linea-del-fraude-y-la-simulacion-20240212-7807.html

> 3.6 Security is worse than ever, cartels are thriving, getting richer than ever, evolving from just drug bussiness to a whole criminal package that signifies a parallel, unofficial form of government in which the given cartel controls everything, even with Its own taxing system through extortion. It is estimated that around ¼ to ⅓ of the national territory is cartel-dominated. 

https://www.ft.com/content/fe04c6ed-73f8-4e17-852b-ce16fd6c3515

The country is more insecure than ever, and every major commentary figure telling you otherwise is probably paid by the regime, or too afraid to speak. 

> 3.7 One exchange with a group of desperate civilians went as follows:

-Send in the army! 

Amlo: The army is not for repression of the peoples. 

-The narcs are (part of the) peoples? 

Amlo: Yes, they are the people! We are all human beings! 

https://www.reporteindigo.com/reporte/difunden-video-en-el-que-amlo-justifica-a-narcos-para-no-enfrentarlos-son-seres-humanos/

But is this failed security strategy just a misguided self described “humanist” acting in good faith, or is there more to it? I’ll be blunt and say it: there is no coincidence here, only complicity. The 4T regime is closet to the drug cartels likely than probably any other government in history. 

> 3.8 AMLO performed defense and sane-washing for the cartels in many occasions:

https://www.milenio.com/politica/amlo-pacto-paz-incluir-narcos-seres-humanos

https://www.foxnews.com/world/amlo-calls-gangs-cartels-respectful-people-respect-the-citizenry

Even saying he would support a peace agreement with narcs. 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/31/mexico-president-peace-agreement-cartels

He refused to label cartels as terror organizations. 

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/trump-says-he-will-hold-off-designating-mexican-drug-cartels-as-terrorist-groups-idUSKBN1YA2M9/

And refused to combat cartels upon U.S. pressure. Calling it a “Mexico first” policy

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-first-nationalistic-policy-drug-cartels-6e7a78ff41c895b4e10930463f24e9fb

> 3.9 During his term, the expresident visited Badiraguato, hometown of infamous druglord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, on several ocassions

https://politica.expansion.mx/presidencia/2022/10/31/amlo-visitas-badiraguato-chapo

AMLO even hosted a taco dinner with several cartel members, during which he went up to a vehicle to personally shake hands with the mother of El Chapo. 

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/no-scandal-here-mexico-president-defends-meeting-mother-of-drug-lord-el-chapo-idUSKBN21H31N/

> 3.11 The 4T chants victory over García Luna, a now sentenced former security chief during the mandate of expresident Felipe Calderon, but the same testimonies that signaled him now point to AMLO https://aristeguinoticias.com/0205/aristegui-en-vivo/videocolumnas-y-opinion/mismo-testigos-que-senalaron-a-garcia-luna-apuntan-al-circulo-cercano-de-amlo-reyes-orona/

Instead of all time rivals it would make more sense to see them as fallen partners, both originally working for the same team, the Sinaloa Cartel. 

Keypoint:

> 3.12 The DEA looked into allegations by key informants that notorious druglord “La Barbie”, from the Sinaloa Cartel, had given 2 million in Cash as well as other stimulus for AMLO’s 2006 presidential campaing, Here are the 3 original articles that reported on this:

Propublica article by Tim Golden that almost got him sued by AMLO:

https://www.propublica.org/article/mexico-amlo-lopez-obrador-campana-narcotraficantes

https://www.propublica.org/article/mexico-amlo-dea-cartel-campana-donaciones

Insight Crime article:

https://insightcrime.org/operation-polanco-how-dea-investigated-amlos-2006-presidential-campaign/

DW article by Anabel Hernández :

https://www.dw.com/es/el-cartel-de-sinaloa-financi%C3%B3-la-campa%C3%B1a-presidencial-de-amlo-en-2006-i/a-68121426

New York Times article, compiling several sources and accusations including an alleged reunion between AMLO and Sinaloa Cartel leader, “El Mayo”:

https://www.nytimes.com/es/2024/02/22/espanol/amlo-investigacion-narcotrafico.html

Note: The U.S. and the DEA are so imperialistic they scrapped the investigation on AMLO because they feared it was too polítically sensitive at the time.

> 3.13 Ties of other MORENA party members to mafia cartels and ilegal activities have also been documented, including those of AMLO’s sons, who are allegedly close with the “Chapitos” faction also in the Sinaloa Cartel. 

https://www.infobae.com/mexico/2024/08/01/gobierno-de-eeuu-conoce-vinculos-entre-hijos-de-amlo-y-los-chapitos-segun-anabel-hernandez/

https://www.lapoliticaonline.com/mexico/politica-mx/la-historia-secreta-de-las-fotos-que-saco-un-ex-agente-del-fbi-en-la-reunion-de-jose-ramon-con-dos-sospechosos-importadores/

> 3.14 Anabel Hernandez shared a list of MORENA members investigated by the U.S. government. 

https://www.dw.com/es/sedena-funcionarios-del-gobierno-de-michoac%C3%A1n-y-alcalde-de-buenavista-protegen-a-carteles-unidos/a-66128516

https://www.infobae.com/mexico/2024/01/31/esta-es-la-lista-de-los-miembros-de-morena-ligados-al-cartel-de-sinaloa/

> 3.15 Thanks to a massive information leak by hacking group Guacamaya Leaks, we know even SEDENA has investigated MORENA’S high ranking politicians, such as current senate coordinator Adan Augusto, for handing out security organisms to a cartel during his term as governor. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/es/post-opinion/2022/10/24/guacamaya-leaks-sedena-hackers-amlo-documentos/

Adán Augusto is purportedly also involved in a large petroleum leak scheme that has government oil stolen then unoficially resold back. An illegal practice dubbed “Huachicoleo”

https://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/nacional/2022/10/14/huachicol-involucraria-a-adan-augusto-guardia-nacional-y-a-ip-de-estados-unidos/

> 3.16 Mario delgado, Mexico’s current Secretary of Education on Claudia Sheinbaum’s cabinet, is investigated by the U.S. also for huachicoleo. 

https://www.yucatan.com.mx/mexico/2024/05/21/dea-y-fbi-investigan-a-mario-delgado-dirigente-de-morena-por-huachicol-denuncian.html

https://laopcion.com.mx/nacional/investigan-a-mario-delgado-por-narcotrafico-y-crimen-organizado-20230301-418910.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2rRIW9wiAl_8PZBrvKK3sRvPSdACCQdYqfAcNd32YIVc38GIuzhn9eYQk_aem_3xEGnu-RJbfY5YC5aTp4UA

> 3.17 We know of at least 43 Morenistas that the DEA also investigates. 

https://sonorapresente.com/2024/09/los-otros-43-y-el-golpe-que-viene-de-eu/ 

> 3.18 Narco ties or not, hell broke loose after Ismael El “Mayo” Zambada, called “the most powerful druglord in the world” by a Brooklyn court, got arrested by the United States. A new Narco War has begun, the two biggest Sinaloa Cartel factions, Mayos and Chapitos, are going after each other. As a result the state of Sinaloa has been paralyzed for weeks as of writing this. We’ve seen several violence outbreaks before, but never like this. Its a warzone and our front yards are the battlefield. 

https://www.borderreport.com/regions/mexico/narco-war-breaks-out-in-sinaloa-between-sons-of-el-chapo-and-el-mayo-zambada/

https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-09-16/life-stops-in-sinaloa-amidst-war-between-el-mayo-and-los-chapitos.html

https://www.latintimes.com/violence-sinaloa-continues-escalate-death-toll-climbs-118-five-bodies-found-inside-van-560762

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/world/americas/mexico-sinaloa-cartel-war.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanielparishflannery/2024/10/22/the-violence-in-sinaloa-mexico-is-getting-worse/

https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-09-24/cartel-war-in-sinaloa-spreads-fear-to-other-states-in-mexico-you-see-fewer-people-on-the-streets-and-businesses-close-early.html 

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/more-than-100-killed-or-missing-sinaloa-cartel-war-rages-mexico-2024-09-21/

> 3.19 Most insane of all is that the Sinaloa governor’s and every 4T member’s reaction is to pretend like nothing is happening, China-style: nothing happened in Tiananmen square, nothing happens in Sinaloa, nothing happens in Mexico. The governor even simulates his own little public events to “show” everything is fine.

https://www.infobae.com/mexico/2024/10/18/rocha-moya-disfruta-de-concierto-de-regina-orozco-mientras-culiacan-arde-por-guerra-entre-chapitos-y-mayiza/

I can't even describe the vileness. It’s absolute madness. 

https://www.milenio.com/videos/estados/gobernador-sinaloa-minimiza-hechos-violentos-asegura-tranquilo

Keypoint:

> 3.20 A letter sent by El Mayo from prison basically confirms ties of this Morenista governor to the Cartel: Mayo tells of how he was supposed to mediate tensions between governor Ruben Rocha Moya, and politician Hector Melesio Cuen, event at which he was betrayed and captured, while Cuen was murdered.

https://www.latintimes.com/full-letter-read-sinaloa-cartel-leader-el-mayos-claim-that-mexican-officials-are-disputing-557805

Rocha Moya and the State Prosecutor’s Office claimed Cuen had died in a separate event, presenting video evidence of a supposed robbery, but then the Republic’s Prosecutor’s Office outright claimed this version was all a fabrication, finding Cuen’s blood dregs right at where Mayo said he had been killed, proving the letter right. 

https://www.informador.mx/mexico/Mayo-Zambada-La-FGR-confirma-montaje-en-muerte-de-Cuen-20240822-0032.html

We got two Morena members contradicting each other. 

Interesting to see where this will end. Looks like the Sinaloa governor will end up becoming the sacrificial lamb MORENA drops if they have to, despite currently claiming unconditional support for him, as though he were the supreme víctim in all of this. 

https://www.debate.com.mx/politica/Gobernadores-de-Morena-muestran-apoyo-a-Ruben-Rocha-ante-carta-de-El-Mayo-Zambada-20240812-0079.html

> 3.22 Once again with a disgusting reaction, a 4T signature, AMLO claimed Sinaloa violence was all just a dirty campaign to smear him

https://forbes.com.mx/violencia-del-narco-en-sinaloa-es-una-campana-en-mi-contra-amlo/

> 3.21 After hell broke loose, AMLO tried to mediate the war by himself from his Mañanera, pathetically appealing to the will of the now absent Mayo. 

https://www.reforma.com/pide-amlo-a-narcos-cesar-agresiones-se-que-me-escuchan/ar2873041

> 3.23 AMLO and now Sheinbaum continue to repeatedly condemn the El Mayo detention. They go into rants about the imperialist U.S. disrespecting Mexico’s sovereignty, also blaming them for the ongoing Sinaloa War. 

https://www.latintimes.com/mexican-president-amlo-says-us-partly-blame-cartel-violence-sinaloa-559927

Not the first time they get mad over covert operations that result in big captures. Only God knows what prompts these reactions.

https://www.aztecreports.com/amlo-slams-covert-dea-operations-in-mexico-that-led-to-indictment-of-los-chapitos/3669/

> 3.10 In what most certainly is one of his public stunts AMLO has denied that fentanyl is produced in Mexico at all, instead blaming the U.S.’s family culture for the crysis. 

https://thehill.com/latino/4019511-lopez-obrador-doubles-down-fentanyl-is-not-produced-in-mexico/

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-fentanyl-methamphetamines-ffeb696dc0031b46cd9ad73d1cfef6d0

https://www.foxnews.com/media/mexican-president-denies-cartels-producing-most-fentanyl-blames-us-drug-use-family-breakdown

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/11/17/apec-mexico-united-states-china-fentanyl-amlo-biden-xi/

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-fentanyl-lopez-obrador-china-694a4b5c0ed67d5c9ac828ef956416bb

Meanwhile, China publicly promises they will crackdown on fentanyl, yet some are skeptical, with a House panel even concluding China directly funnels the fentanyl crysis. 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/china-funding-us-fentanyl-crisis-house-panel-says-new-report-rcna147952

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/29/nx-s1-5089978/fentanyl-china-precursors

https://thehill.com/opinion/4347148-why-we-should-be-wary-of-chinas-pledges-of-a-fentanyl-crackdown/

https://apnews.com/article/china-fentanyl-congress-committee-759871aae29d286361255f29bb221ba9

If a coordination is going on between these two, that would make China and México responsible for the fentanyl epidemic and It’s thousands of deaths. Looks like the foreign conspirators trying to destroy the United States do come from Mexico after all, though they are not sent by the jewish elite, but the antiliberal Axis of Evil that Trump is also part of. 

> 3.24 If there was any doubt, the 4T is vehemently anti-foreign intervention, but of course only in the populist fashion, which is treating principles exclusively as a tool to attack rivals, never to live by them. 

AMLO threatened to intervene in U.S. politics with a massive “information campaign”. 

https://www.radioformula.com.mx/nacional/2023/3/15/amlo-causa-un-nuevo-enojo-en-eu-ahora-por-querer-meterse-en-sus-elecciones-753916.html

And holy shit apparently AMLO financed the opposition to Argentina’s Javier Milei

https://vanguardia.com.mx/noticias/financia-amlo-campana-de-massa-revela-riva-palacio-injerencia-electoral-de-mexico-en-argentina-PA10011925

He also called Peru's president a usurper and was declared persona non grata for it. 

https://www.france24.com/es/am%C3%A9rica-latina/20230525-congreso-peruano-declar%C3%B3-como-persona-non-grata-al-presidente-mexicano-l%C3%B3pez-obrador

Other Amlo interventions involve Colombia, Cuba and Ecuador. 

https://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/nacional/2022/12/08/y-la-no-intervencion-amlo-y-los-paises-y-politicos-a-los-que-ha-salido-a-defender/

SUBPOINT 4: FOREIGN POLICY, THE (ANTI-GLOBALIST) PLOT UNFOLDS

The 4T undoubtedly dislikes the western world. If you guessed they belong to rhe wave of Axis of Evil supporting, anti-globalist, wannabe-dictator neofascists, you are right. Their foreign policy looks, on a surface level, aimless and idiotic… Untill you realize these are all the steps a national populist would take to isolate the country, dismantle the state of law, and turn the republic into a kind of butchery paradise for the government, military and the cartels. 

> 4.1 The president(s) fight with Spain, demanding an apology from the crown for the Spanish conquest. Not a joke. 

https://elpais.com/mexico/2024-05-15/lopez-obrador-insiste-en-que-espana-pida-disculpas-por-la-conquista-ayudaria-mucho-a-ambos-pueblos.html

> 4.2 Trump’s hazard benefitted nobody more than AMLO. An evil orange man had insulted our country, and Obrador got to to be that strong patriotic character that stood up for all of us. After years of campaigning, presenting himself as this hero, and even writing a whole book on it (¡Oye, Trump!), his administration did something did built wall of sorts, as they placed 6,000 of their precious armed forces to play border patrol, keeping Trump happy, and avoiding his 25% tax raise. “I’ve never seen anybody bend like that”, “He is a socialist, but one of those socialists i like”, Trump boasted. 

https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2024/07/21/trump-mexico-dio-todo-presidente-trax

https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-48570886

Here is an interesting read on the nationalist security strategy:

https://www.proceso.com.mx/nacional/2024/7/22/pese-al-discurso-nacionalista-amlo-se-sometio-la-agenda-de-seguridad-de-eu-elementa-333262.html

> 4.3 AMLO has personally sane-washed Trump and his proposal to send the military. 

https://politica.expansion.mx/presidencia/2024/07/31/amlo-trump-ha-sido-respetuoso-propuesta-de-enviar-militares-es-retorica

> 4.4 And the 4T paused diplomatic relations with once friendly U.S. ambassador Ken Salazar, following trouble after he spoke over a controversial judicial reform. 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/27/americas/mexico-us-canada-judicial-reform-intl-latam/index.html

> 4.5 AMLO and Trump, again through their adversarial collaboration, have embedded the seeds for the destruction of the NAFTA treaty. 

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-did-get-mexico-build-wall-its-troops-its-own-ncna1119466

https://www.informador.mx/mexico/AMLO-sugiere-sustitucion-de-importaciones-ruptura-comercial-con-EU-20240905-0056.html

Note: If it wasn't obvious, fascists tend to have a lot in common and can help each other, no matter how far apart they are in the polítical spectrum. Horseshoe theory on full blast here. 

> 4.6 And yes, this regime is dangerously friendly to the dictatorships of the world, even inviting Putin to the transition Of power ceremony, refusing Ukraine’s plea to arrest him.

https://www.reuters.com/world/mexico-rejects-ukraines-request-arrest-russias-putin-during-visit-2024-08-08/

> 4.7 AMLO slammed Ukraine aid, and the Cuba/Venezuela sanctions

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-ukraine-immigration-criticism-c85668f69ac7c238c63d53b670b7e371 

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/mexicos-president-slams-u-s-sanctions-on-venezuela-and-cuba

He blamed the immigration crisis on us sanctions over Venezuela

https://thehill.com/latino/4235507-mexico-president-blames-us-sanctions-on-cuba-and-venezuela-for-migrant-surge/

> 4.8 The 4T has given assylum to Bolivia expresident Evo Morales. 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-50397922

> 4.9 As PEMEX remains with billionaire losses, Sheinbaum has rapidly sent 400,000 petroleum barrels to Cuba after the country suffered mass blackouts.

https://www.latimes.com/espanol/mexico/articulo/2024-11-01/mexico-envia-mas-de-400-000-barriles-de-petroleo-a-cuba-sumida-en-una-seria-crisis-energetica

> 4.10 AMLO called for the freedom of Assange along the other leftist hispanic presidents

https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/12/06/free-julian-assange-latin-america-left-leaders/

And called to “tear down” the statue of liberty In the case they found him guilty. 

https://english.elpais.com/usa/2022-07-05/lopez-obrador-to-campaign-to-tear-down-the-statue-of-liberty-if-the-us-convicts-julian-assange.html

He offered him political assylum and pleaded for him in a letter to Biden 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/18/lopez-obrador-says-he-pleaded-for-assange-in-letter-to-biden

And finally celebrated his liberation. 

> 4.11 AMLO refused to pressure Maduro and outright defended him during the Venezuelan election process. Among even Latín America’s leftist block, Mexico stood out as a fierce Maduro defender.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/08/15/amlo-says-calling-for-fresh-elections-in-venezuela-not-prudent/

AMLO claimed there was no evidence of election fraud. 

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexican-president-says-no-evidence-fraud-venezuela-elections-2024-07-31/

And slammed the OEA claiming they had no credibility and no right to intervene, “that's interventionism!”. 

https://youtu.be/EFUbvImcjcM?si=_WQm3vui8YLkPH9O

> 4.12 U.S. General Glenn VanHerck claimed there are more Russian spies in Mexico than anywhere else in the world. 

https://english.elpais.com/international/2022-03-26/us-general-russia-has-more-spies-deployed-in-mexico-than-in-any-other-country.html

Of course AMLO downplayed these declarations. 

https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/03/26/mexico-not-colony-amlo-russian-spies/

> 4.13 “Back to the Cold War”, México has become a hub for Russian espionage, according to NBC. 

https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/cold-war-russia-uses-mexico-hub-spying-us-rcna171819

> 4.14 Here is a case of a mexican scientist who plead guilty to spying for Russia in Miami

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/mexican-scientist-led-double-life-pleads-guilty-spying-russia-miami-rcna16359

> 4.15 It is a fact that Russia has increased their diplomatic efforts in Mexico, allegedly to undermine Ukraine support. 

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/09/23/7476303/

There is reportedly a plot to cause strife between the U.S. and Mexico, with Russia percieving the MORENA party as “highly manipulable”. 

https://www.spytalk.co/p/exposed-russian-plan-to-ignite-us

CLOSURE

I hope to have made it clear what type of politicians govern Mexico right now. I hope to have painted a picture of the danger that fascists represent to all. And in what the 4T regime has done i hope you can rightfully predict, on time, what others *could* do. Mexico might be lost, but now you have more tools to protect yourselves, wherever you might be. 

You have now seen how they rot the executive power. In the following chapters, we’ll see how they destroy the rest of a democratic republic. 

This post will be updated with a link to Chapter 2 when It’s out. Until now, thanks for reading and good luck.

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