Mexico’s former President has released a statement on US attacks on Mexico, only his second political statement since the end of his term, accusing US official of plotting to “weaken Morena.”
The US President wants to destroy Cuba and starve its population and he wants Mexico to help. Or else.
Canada has begun to make moves (such as rapprochement with the People’s Republic of China), but Mexico is clinging to the USMCA: all its eggs in one basket, something that, given the frenzied dynamic imposed by Trump, doesn’t seem to be the wisest course of action.
Defense of sovereignty and a unified continental response to US imperialist aggression comprised the collective agenda of the 10,000 strong march.
The Front denounced the possibility the US could enter Mexico militarily or coercively and identified weapons and financing sustaining the narcotics trade as originating from the US.
Besides persecuting anti-genocide activists from abroad, the Trump administration is attacking all non-citizens, regardless of their legal status. For migrants of Mexican origins, why stay?
American society’s destiny is in the hands of irrationality.
Mexico yearns for peace, but that requires a coordinated, multifaceted strategy, not US unilateral actions, be it a Republican or Democrat in the White House.
What are the potential consequences of a second Donald Trump presidency for Mexico? Also, Morena’s overhaul of the judiciary, new tariffs on Chinese metals and greenwashing propaganda from The Guardian.