AMLO was elected in 2018 under the slogan “hugs, not bullets,” a promise to demilitarize Mexico, where the army has fought the drug cartels since 2006. Once in office, however, AMLO not only maintained the army on the streets. He also gave the Mexican Armed Forces a central role in the management of affairs well beyond the military sphere. These include customs duties, gasoline distribution, and the delivery of school textbooks. The armed forces are also engaged in the construction of infrastructure, including AMLO’s Tren Maya railway in the Yucatán Peninsula. The army’s greater activity has come with greater privileges, especially in the form of a strengthened lobbying capacity and a slew of government contracts.
LOL there has got to be some Bee article forthcoming. Something tying together
Under the slogan “Hugs not guns,” the cartels are given free reign and arrest of drug cartel members in Mexico nosedived 80%.
A leftist Ueber-military politician has been named a threat to freedom as he centralizes power, attacks the free market, and involves the military in everything from government contracts to gasoline and textbook distribution.
His ruling party, including his hand-picked replacement, retained power after an election marred by over 850 violent attacks on candidates, including 37 murders.
US media response “Oh look! She has a vagina and she’s against global warming.”
The 37 people killed were not all her opponents, they were candidates around the country running for various offices. From the OP link:
More than three dozen candidates were assassinated, including a local government candidate in central Puebla state who was killed on Friday, increasing the total number of those killed to 37 ahead of Sunday’s vote, according to data from security consultancy Integralia obtained by Reuters.
And the people coming here want us to bend over backwards so they can live just like they did in their home countries… otherwise we’re racist and xenophobic.
