I had the impression that people running for office in Mexico were being assassinated a lot, if she is real force for good then I hope she’s safe
The top comment on this thread should be an unqualified “Hell yeah!” not speculation over whether she is going to be murdered.
I am not attacking you, I understand the knee jerk reaction, I am just pointing this out because I think it is true.
Especially if you are white/European or from the US and are white please don’t joke about the President of Mexico getting assassinated given the history with Mexico and the US (and by extension Europe). It isn’t funny, even when you are being sarcastic.
The top comment on this thread should be an unqualified “Hell yeah!” not speculation over whether she is going to be murdered.
What should be and what are, are frequently two different things. In this case, political candidates shouldn’t be commonly murdered, but that’s a reality for them and one they should be planning for.
And it’s not a knee jerk reaction, it’s just a legitimate worry posted by someone who pays attention to the news. I’m sad to say that I both had the ‘hell yeah’ reaction right before thinking ‘I hope her security can keep her safe’ thoughts back to back.
This isn’t a joke. https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexican-candidate-assassinations-hit-grim-record-ahead-sundays-election-2024-06-01/
To be clear, 37 other candidates were murdered. Leaving this final one the pick of the cartels as the survivor.
I understand but I literally just left Nogales to visit my stepfather and during my week there there were so many campaign ads. The only thing he told me about them is that candidates from all positions from Mayor to Governor and up wind up dead all the time.
Apparently it’s really common and my father had a similar reaction to the top comment. Yes it’s scary but it’s something that the government needs to take precautions for
I might be wrong but I don’t think the commenter was joking. It’s not a joke to say a lot of politicians have been assassinated and to question how someone in such a situation managed to get safely elected. I wonder the same thing.
Wasn’t that mostly for local offices likes amyors and such?
That happened in small cities and some hot states. They’d never dare to attack directly a Presidential Candidate.
Why? Are they afraid UN peace keeping forces would be deployed or that the US would step in?
The last time Mexican Cartels pissed the USA off, the largest cartel in Mexican History got shafted. So yeah, they are pretty afraid of direct US involvement.
Which one? When? Curiously asking.
Maybe they were talking about the Gulf Cartel?
And by shafted, they mean the opposite cartel got armed by the “Fast and Furious” operation
I mean, you win some, you lose some. Nwver said they were effective.
Really?
To be clear, 37 other candidates were murdered. Leaving this final one the pick of the cartels as the survivor.
Here, you are correct.
To be clear, 37 other candidates were murdered. Leaving this final one the pick of the cartels as the survivor.
She’ll be dead in 6 months probably
If she made deals with the cartels to be alive this long I doubt it
Nice! Congratulations Mexico! 🇲🇽 🍾🥂
Don’t need to point out the fact she’s Jewish. Nobody cares. Just do a good job.
You. You are the reason they need to point it out.
Just move on. You think no one cares, but I care infinitely less about your comment on it than I do learning the background of an elected official, especially given the situation in Gaza.
As an American jew, I care as well
lol @ the downvotes for mentioning the Cartel who is known for assassinating, at the very least threatening government employees and politicians, including actual presidents.
But if Theodore Cruizin’ and other shitbags sharing their border don’t show up, was she really even inaugurated?
Congrats to her. I know nothing else about her. Hope she’s able to do some good.
Congratulations to Mexico
Why the hell can’t we have candidates this awesome on the ballot here in the US?! 😿
You don’t like deciding which person who will be the oldest president we’ve ever had for president is interesting?
Yeah, it’s a pretty frustrating time to be leaning left. And given the chaos Trump would unleash, it’s not like there is any choice at all about whether or not to vote for Biden… 😿
You have Bernie Sanders, AOC
Yeah but they’re basically relegated to side show characters by their party.
Fair point
Sheinbaum is better than those two, but not as much as you think. Her mayorship and her party have good relations with Israel, cooperated with the US in violence against migrants, and silenced protestors.
Yes, and I voted for Bernie when he ran and I would absolutely vote for AOC if/when she does run. Just… the choices in this election cycle are wanna-be, half-demented dictator-for-life vs a “moderate” Democrat who, while he’s gotten a surprising amount done, isn’t exactly renowned for pushing the corporations hard on climate change.
Honestly, the stuff he’s gotten done over his career has been life changing for me. I hate that I have to give him credit for legalizing cannabis, but here we are.
bc mexico is actually democratic with significant proportional representation and not the weird arse shit merica calls “democracy”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_Mexico#Current_Elected_Federal_Offices
Yeah 37 assassinated candidate runner ups being murdered speaks volumes about that
They were not all runner-ups, you’re falling for misinformation bullshit (and stop upvoting misinformation, people!). The assassinations were not presidential candidates. They were local politicians, running for mayoral or council seats.
Which is absolutely fucking horrifying in and of itself, don’t get me wrong, but what you’re saying is just not true.
Hmm… so it’s not the electoral system that needs reform… Murcia just needs to murder more candidates?!
Yeah, kinda wondering why the cartels want her in office. Maybe she’s less good than she appears.
Also wondering why anyone would want to lead Mexico given that angering the cartels will get you cartel’d…
I’ll tell you what I told the previous commenter: They were not all runner-ups, that’s misinformation. The assassinations were not presidential candidates. They were local politicians, running for mayoral or council seats.
Which is also disgusting, of course, but no, the cartels did not kill off all her competition to get her into office.
Maybe they don’t want her in the office, maybe they didn’t want the other guys they offed
How can she be president? She doesn’t look like she’s about to die of old age
The important thing is she didn’t die from the Cartels. Do you know how many politicians have been taken out by cartels in the last year. Just recently in April down in Chipas a cartel got 538 politicians to resign all on the same day and murdered 38.
To be a politician in Mexico from any party you need blessings from the right people.
I wish hera long, happy, productive career, really
In October 1991, Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari went to Stanford University to give a talk on the benefits of Latin American neoliberalism, but was met with a demonstration against it. The angry college girl holding the sign with the inscription “Fair Trade and Democracy Now” in English is the current president-elect of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum
En octubre de 1991 el presidente mexicano Carlos Salinas de Gortari fue a la Universidad de Stanford a para dar una charla sobre las bondades del neoliberalismo latinoamericano, pero se encontró con una manifestación en su contra. La chica universitaria enojada que sostiene el cartel con la inscripción “Comercio justo y Democracia ahora” en inglés es la actual presidenta electa de Méxi
co, Claudia SheinbaumAnd the picture from 1991 is in black and white?
GTFO
They still had newspapers in the 90s. And some pictures you can only find on old newspaper micro film. So they’re in black and white. Even color printed newspapers would catalog their back issues in black and white.
color printed newspapers would catalog their back issues in black and white
Why? It’s not expensive to set one copy aside and keep 365 of them a year into some cold dry storage, right?
It’s obviously scanned from a newspaper. Not everything is a conspiracy…
Not everyone bought their first 5MP digital camera on the same day.
Almost everyone was shooting on film in 1991, as digital cameras were usualy NTSC resolution or 1024p and very expensive. And B/W film was always cheaper than color but both were quite affordable by the 1990s.
Man, you must’ve thought a whole 2 seconds about that comment.
Yep
Well I hope she survives. One thing going for her is that Claudia is pretty much like Karen here in the US. If you had a Claudia at your school, she was probably either really fat and annoying or had the biggest chest possible and was the teacher’s pet so she could go smoke with her boyfriend during recess.
Calm down Kevin
Generalizations, ableism, sexism all in one comment. Well done 👍
What’s the ableism in the comment? Sincere question because I thought I knew what it was but can’t spot any here so I must be ignorant.
No. I’m ignorant. I thought body-shaming (fat-shaming) was ableist. I researched it and found I was wrong. You are correct.
It doesn’t have to mean anything! It gets the people going
Efficiency, efficiency, efficiency
Edit: don’t forget the fatphobia!
Gracias 🙏😁. The juro que me Dio trabajo. Pero me salio! Osea, suena chingon.
But que es ableismo? Sorry but Mexican Wikipedia requires payment.
More leaders like her please, looking at you US
Edit but yeah being technically capable aside, many eugenists were PhDs and philosophers. Sam Harris comes to mind as he is a racist and a sophist with lots of academic qualifications. So yeah, ethics and morals also matter greatly. Mexico seems to have lucked out, good for them!
Morena is a staunchly anti-liberal party, they’d never have a chance in the US.
Id love for Bernie to get a real chance
Can we also elect a smartypants nonretiree ? Is that even an option ?
Does Mexico want to get freedomed? Because this is precisely how you get freedomed.
Gotta love these commends: she is less “radical” in her leftist stances as her predecessor. But yes, surely Mexico will be invaded any minute now by the radical inventionist that is Joe Biden.
