A Mexican Conspiracy Against the US?
Trump and his evil cabal of fascists have openly proclaimed their intention to dominate — or replace — Latin American governments, to rip off their resources, and to channel massive profits into the overflowing money coffers of US billionaire investors and CEOs.
Mexico is the biggest prize, but it’s not enough to threaten economic strangulation through tariffs or even military invasion under the thin claim that “cartels run Mexico,” — not that “lovely” but weak woman, Claudia Sheinbaum. Trump’s strategy also includes a psychological battle for the hearts and minds of the US public to win support for a takeover of Mexico.
That’s where writers and “researchers” come in. Recently, Peter Schweizer published what purports to be an exposé of Mexico’s conspiracy to subvert the US government.
Schweizer names names. “Among those dispatched to the US is Alejandro Robles… the executive secretary of the party’s National Committee of Mexicans Abroad… he was making trips, ‘meeting with militants, supporters, and Morena committees,’ according to his party’s account… Robles was sent to stoke resistance to Trump, meeting with migrants, both illegal and legal. ‘Our mission is to organize the militancy abroad’ [emphasis added by Schweizer], declared Robles.”
Schweizer also reports that Mexican Congressman “Cheto” Polanco, who lives in Los Angeles, “posted a video of Hispanic cops being harassed for doing their job and being disloyal to their ethnic heritage.”
Far from harassing “Hispanic cops,” Mexican Americans were defending themselves from the indiscriminate brutality of the ICE agents. In the MAGA blame-the-victim narrative, that makes them saboteurs threatening US sovereignty. Red alert! Mexicans are invading and boring from within!
Is Mexico plotting to overthrow the US government? Laughable, but Schweizer twists the facts to make the case. It’s business as usual: the pot calling the kettle black.
Alejandro Robles Gómez’s home base is the municipality of Coyoacán in Mexico City, but he lived in Canada and retains a residence there. His activist roots go back to the student strikes at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, or UNAM, in 1999/2000, when students resisted a massive tuition hike. He has served as a Congressional representative and in several other political positions. He is now the Secretary for Mexicans Living Abroad for the Morena party. He always advocates for human rights, migrant rights and uplifting the poor.
Trump broadcast that The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon by Peter Schweizer is one of his new favorite books. What’s to like?
It fits like a glove into Trump’s narrative and is music to MAGA ears.
As a right-wing writer, Schweizer’s role is to promote Trump’s white supremacist agenda of ridding the US of non-white immigrants and conquering Latin America. This book should be listed under “fiction”! He wrote it to provide “evidence” that migrants are part of a criminal conspiracy to attack the US. Schweizer, like many in Trump’s circle, profits from our pain. It’s dishonest, disgusting — and dangerous.
You are specifically mentioned in the book. What does he say about you?
Among other accusations, he quotes from remarks I made at the People’s Forum in New York City in 2025. He didn’t like it when I said many Mexicans have been “Americanized.” He doesn’t consider any of us to be “real Americans.”
I also criticized the Mexican government, which in the past failed to acknowledge its citizens living abroad. Many Mexicans in the US had no country to belong to — no welcome or rights in the US and ignored by Mexico.
But since the Morena government took office in 2018, that attitude has switched. We now publicly call migrants heroes and thank them for their enormous contributions to both the US and Mexican economies through their labor and remittances. Morena is the only party to have a Secretary for Mexicans Living Abroad. My job is to reconnect Mexicans to Mexico and to let them know we don’t forget their needs. But Schweizer portrays my trips across the border to meet with migrants as subversive, as if I am recruiting them to work against the US.
His accusation that I turn migrants into “militants” — people with revolutionary intentions — is based on a Spanish word I used, “militancia.” He doesn’t understand Spanish! In Spanish, a party “militant” simply means someone active in a party.
Does Morena try to push its own agenda by operating in the US?
We leave it to Claudia to handle US/Mexico relations.
But when it comes to exposing the political operations of Mexicans living in the US, it’s dishonest that Schweizer doesn’t mention Mexico’s right-wing party, the PAN.
Francisco Cabeza de Vaca, former governor of the state of Tamaulipas, lives in the bordering US state of Texas. He was named PAN’s representative in the US.
You’d think the Trump administration would be concerned that Cabeza de Vaca has been accused of having ties to cartels, but no. Why? Because PAN’s agenda for Mexico is that it wants US intervention! It’s the only way the PAN party could ever return to the presidency. PAN is so unpopular that even its 2024 presidential candidate, Xochitl Galvez, has not signed up for membership in their recent party recruitment drive!
Sweizer alleges that the 53 Mexican consulates in the US conspire to undermine the US government. Is this credible?
Absolutely false! He says it’s suspicious that Mexico has so many consulates when the UK has eight and China has five, but Mexico’s population in the US of 40 million — 1 million born in Mexico — requires a lot more consulates than those other countries.
Working in a consulate is a career job, like a civil service job in the US. Consulate staff must take courses and pass an exam; only the head of the consulate, appointed by the Mexican government, is a political appointee.
Their duties include helping to process passports, advising Mexicans of their rights and running Mexican elections in the US.
Today, about two-thirds of consul staff began their jobs before Morena won in 2018. You know these longtime staff aren’t organizing Mexicans, because I hear constant complaints that they are not sensitive to the needs of Mexicans in their regions.
And while the new hires since the 4T began have a different way of working, focusing on serving and defending migrants, they are not there to act like the CIA does in Mexico!
In Minneapolis, ICE agents forced their way into the Ecuadorian consulate. Will they attack the Mexican consulates?
The Geneva Convention of 1949 established the rules of international humanitarian law, and it’s entirely illegal to forcibly enter a consulate, an inviolable institution under the Consular Relations Convention. The ICE agents are ignorant of the law. They are bounty hunters — it’s said they get $1,000 per head, so they figured they could bag some game at the consulate.
Ironic that it was the Ecuadoran consulate because Ecuador itself broke the law when it entered the Mexican consulate and arrested a former official who had been given asylum there. What goes around comes around! But given that Ecuador is a good friend of the US, why was it targeted? Well, it wasn’t targeted! The ICE agents don’t know foreign affairs. Ecuador, Argentina, Honduras and Chile have presidents friendly to Trump — but that doesn’t matter to ICE agents. All brown people are Mexicans!
Does being named in the book put your own life in danger if you try to enter the US?
Yes. We all fear the immigration interview when we enter the US. I could be in front of a racist agent, complete with these prejudices, and if they googled me and found the Schweizer accusations against me, they could deny me entrance or maybe confiscate my visa. Not being able to travel to the US will definitely make it harder for me to do my job.
The US has many Morena chapters, and Schweizer mentions this too. They also will be more at risk of an ICE raid if they have a meeting.
Pressure on Mexico is building. What does Trump want from Mexico?
President Sheinbaum has a boot on her neck. She’s a great diplomat, but the pressure is increasing. We wish that oil shipments to Cuba would continue, but we understand the dilemma in light of Trump’s determination to get rid of the Cuban regime.
I believe we must avoid the danger to the future of the 4T: we must continue with domestic reforms and implement “Plan Mexico.” In the long run, the reforms are necessary to strengthen Mexico to withstand US threats.
Right now, Trump wants complete control of Latin America as a reassertion of the Monroe Doctrine. He’d love to appoint the president of Mexico, as he’s doing in Venezuela, or have hard-right presidents like Noboa in Ecuador, Milei in Argentina, Bukele in El Salvador and now Kast in Chile — he’s meddled in all those elections to make it happen. If any country is conspiring to oust presidents, to foment unrest or to murder people they don’t like, it’s not Mexico. We need to turn the camera back on Schweizer and Trump.
How can those of us in the US support Mexico at this moment?
Resist!
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