When was the last time Mexico attended a US Presidential Inauguration lol

Guessing it is common for the state department to send a representative. Perhaps the Secretary of State since it’s an important neighbour. Since it’s campaign time, you could see others going if they believe it helps their reelection bid somehow ( though I don’t know how), but it would not be unusual if only the US ambassador to Mexico is present. I don’t know of any foreign politician that attend the US presidential inauguration.

I mean you have to assume they're talking about like the governor of Texas or something, but I've never heard of them attending before.

Meanwhile Lê Đức Thọ refused the prize as it was shared with FUCKING KISSINGER.

He got that prize mainly for not being George W. Bush if I remember 2009 correctly.

Best thing Obama did was pulling out of Iraq, finally leaving an illegal war, so hats off for that. But all his talk about envisioning a world free of nuclear weapons and then not even attempting disarmament of the US ones kinda seems weak.

Wasn't Carter a Nobel recipient too?

We actually bombed the moon on the day of the Nobel Prize announcement!

Seriously though, it was a middle finger to Bush more than anything.

Churchill was a master of historical non-fiction. Not "history books," per se, but basically books about historical topics pertaining to England that interested him: https://en.wikipedia.org/.... They were very popular during his day.

Oh yes, I'd forgotten about Winnie. I have a lot more respect for science and literature prizes than the peace prize though. Harder work, I reckon.

Why? Are they afraid UN peace keeping forces would be deployed or that the US would step in?

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.

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.

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

they also had gay marriage … before we did

The US legalized gay marriage nationwide in 2015; Mexico didn’t achieve the same until 2022.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage (Timeline section)

Same-sex marriage by two weeks (12 and 26 of June, 2015), so not exactly much.

It's interesting how ahead their government is with some things and behind it is with others (generally speaking they have a lot of crime in their larger cities).

This is not true.

You have a self-declared zionist in office now.

Huh, I definitely would’ve guessed it was New York City. I suppose I was mistaken about the ethnoreligious diversity of my neighboring country

It’s obviously scanned from a newspaper. Not everything is a conspiracy…

Edit: Found another picture:

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.

Man, you must've thought a whole 2 seconds about that comment.

Not everyone bought their first 5MP digital camera on the same day.

Yeah but they're basically relegated to side show characters by their party.

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.

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… 😿

Yeah 37 assassinated candidate runner ups being murdered speaks volumes about that

Mike Pence was at the one in 2018.

Id love for Bernie to get a real chance

That's seriously fucked up. I wouldn't want to contribute to that. Sadly, I've seen this shit way to often and I strongly oppose to it.

Ok so I'm not moving for the coming 10 years for sure, and if I'm moving it probably won't be Mexico. But the climate change thing is something I worry about. I live in the Netherlands, most parts are below sea level. The dykes are being reinforced, but the plans for now are finished in about 10 years and won't be high and strong enough in about 5 years, so we need to start to reinforce it even more 5 years before the current plans are being completed. At the same time ground water levels are getting lower, so trees are unable to get water from the ground and die, so the roots will die too and won't be able to hold the ground together. It's getting harder and harder pumping drinking water from the ground. Next to that, salt seawater is normally held back in the ground by the ground water, but because it's level is getting lower while the sea level is rising, salt seawater is making it's way into the ground, killing more greenery because it's polluting the groundwater and making it undrinkable. So I may be forced to move, as well as most inhabitants here if this shit continues. 10 to 12 million people forced to relocate due to lack of water AND too much water at the same time. Weird AF.

Ha! Jokes on you! I'm poor because I have to spend 1900 euros per month on rent alone so there's nothing to rob me of. You can't even rob me of my dignity anymore.

Jokes aside, I'm aware of the major issues Mexico has. I've never been there but I would love to visit as it's a beautiful country. But I'm too chicken to go due to the high crime rate etc. And tickets are too expensive, I wasn't joking about having no money because my decent salary is being sucked up completely by rent, taxes, bills, insurances and food.

But I'm glad Mexico has elected a leader I could only dream of. I hope she can make a change towards better. Or at least, I hope she is what she looks like. I mean, is she really good or only looks like that (like the president of India). At least she looks like Merkel + + +

I'm glad you made this reply on every comment, otherwise I might not have read it 40 times

I think everywhere you've posted this has been relevant to those particular threads. I appreciate you carrying that torch.

Actually, you're not being clear, at all. The article you linked, yourself, notes that the 37 murdered political candidates were local government candidates murdered between September and May, not national candidates. Far cry from your insinuation that 37 of Claudia Sheinbaum's political opponents were murdered so she could win by the hands of the cartels.

It was bouncy

Morena is a pretty solid party overall, and we should treat socdems in the global south differently from their counterparts in the imperial core.

AMLO for example is pushing hard against the US extradition of Julian Assange, even playing the the collateral murder video when some New York Times journalists started throwing shade. Morena also recognizes Palestine and is closing doors to Israel, against the wishes of the US.

Great to see the people of Mexico continuing to support Morena and reject liberalism, this is a great day.

Mexico recently applied to join the Genocide case against israel.

Lets hope she can keep it going. It's difficult to do deals withh America without being forced into supporting a few coups every so often.

Social democracy is a subsection inside the umbrella of Socialism. So she's both.

perhaps spoken too early, nevertheless just as those candidates being killed does not automatically make them anti cartel (it could very well be a power grab attempt by fractions and candidates supporting certain fractions), it also does not make her automatically pro cartel.

Imagine having 37 candidates murdered in the USA for an election and calling for it to be standard behavior lolz

Mexican here.

As you say, Mexico is a bit divisive about her, many calling her just a mere puppet of current president López Obrador and worrying about her not doing that much when she was state governor.

And many of her claims about feminism, ecologism, pro-Palestina positioning, are a bit weird, in respect of her former position and the little things she did in regard those.

What worries me personally rn is that legislative power will also be at her mercy. If she wants to do any change to Constitution (as Lopez Obrador already had tried many times), little to nothing will be able to stop her. For better or for worse.

She is a puppet of the current president, she was apponted by himself

That said, the opposition was also a woman but she was an unknown and 3 parties with different views allied to launch her as candidate

The party is projected to have qualified majority of the Congress and maybe senate so they'll be able to do a bunch of stuff so that may be worrying

They have done a lot of good stuff but also they are full of corruption like cancelling a great airport that still needs to be paid and building a shitty one very far away that no one wants to use and that interferes with the operation of the other airport so it doesn't really help with congestion

Sheinbaum is a climate scientist so I'm curious about who she'll appoint to the energy commission because the current government is all-in on carbon

Can you explain more of the background? Ignore the downvotes

Those are pretty good points. Still, you had to participate in Reddit in order to find that story.

The point is that news organizations, reporters, etc. need to start using fediverse platforms so we're not stuck still using Xitter and Reddit. Moreover, a source from a reputable news outlet would be preferred over social media.

Clocks ticking

As an American jew, I care as well

Not a single one of the assassinated was running for president, that poster was only right in that the cartels were targeting people for political reasons on the local/mayoral level.

https://apnews.com/...

This is admittedly horrific to hear about

Excuse my cynism, but I just see it very smart to learn from the mistakes of the neighbour.

Efficiency, efficiency, efficiency

Edit: don't forget the fatphobia!

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.

But que es ableismo? Sorry but Mexican Wikipedia requires payment.

Gracias 🙏😁. The juro que me Dio trabajo. Pero me salio! Osea, suena chingon.