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Mexico: Protestors Storm National Palace to Protest Cartel Violence
Mexico: Protestors Storm National Palace to Protest Cartel Violence
Protestors storm Mexico's National Palace in response to cartel violence and political corruption.
pjmedia.com
Many Mexicans are at their limit with the cartel violence and political bribery plaguing their country, and a crowd made its anger felt in a startling and fierce way by storming the National Palace Saturday.
The violent protest was particularly striking as being explicitly organized by “Gen Z” — that is, very young adults, my age group. There were, however, angry citizens of all ages in the mob that clashed with riot police and breached a barrier at the National Palace. President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo faces mounting criticism for her refusal to address rampant cartel violence, with one of her critics recently killed in a public assassination.
Eduardo Verástegui, who challenged Sheinbaum in the last Mexican election, enthusiastically posted on X (translation by Grok), “There are no words to describe the emotion felt when seeing so many Mexicans awakened, on the move, and more determined than ever. No matter how many stones we encounter on the path. We are going to move this country forward. All together! United in the truth! Long live Mexico!”
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Sheinbaum and other politicians face allegations of taking cartel money, hence the brazen and habitually unpunished crimes of cartel members. Mexican Sen. Lilly Tellez told Fox after detailing the allegations, “The president has threatened me to proceed against me with criminal prosecution to get me out of the Senate and get me in jail just because I told you.”
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Sheinbaum, of course, has reacted to the mounting unrest by blaming everything on the political right and social media. If only people would stop talking about her failures and accept that they must live in fear, everything would be just peachy. Naturally she couldn’t be part of the problem — she’s a female president. Did she mention she’s a female, you sexist?
The Mexican people know who is to blame — the cartels and their puppet politicians.
Commentary:
Good thing Mexican citizens aren’t allowed to own guns any more, or the poor, innocent, cartel gangsters might be in danger.
Why does the President of Mexico have German name?
Answer: Because of her family’s Jewish heritage, with roots in both Germany and Eastern Europe. Her paternal grandparents were Lithuanian Jews, while her maternal grandparents emigrated from Bulgaria; both families settled in Mexico after fleeing persecution in Europe, especially around the time of the Holocaust.
The surname “Sheinbaum” is of Yiddish origin but is found among both German and Eastern European Jews (“Schönbaum” or “Schoenbaum” are its Germanic forms).
We might also want to ask the question, why did the President of the USA have a Kenyan surname?
Actually, Mexico is more culturally diverse than most Americans are aware of. Linda Ronstadt, for example, is of Mexican descent. Her great-grandfather, the engineer Friedrich August Ronstadt (who went by Federico Augusto Ronstadt), immigrated first to Sonora, Mexico, and later to the Southwest (at that time a part of Mexico) in the 1840s from Hanover, Germany. He married Margarita Redondo y Vásquez, a Mexican citizen and eventually settled in Tucson.
In fact people from all over the world immigrated to the Americas. The first president of Chile was Bernardo O'Higgins. Alberto Fujimori was president of Peru. People from Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries did not just migrate to the United States.
Meanwhile, we are watching a rebellion in Mexico. The question is whether or not a revolution will occur? They haven't had one since 1920.
