machinya [it/its, fae/faer]

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Cake day: August 17th, 2023

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  • is this really the feeling people outside mexico has about the situation? as someone that lived a big part of his mandate, and part of claudia’s mandate on mexico city, I really feel like it was just a neoliberal government disguised as left populism. the biggest changes that I can remember were giving way too much power to the military and ignoring a bunch of problems.

    there were a couple of things that I remember being good, but none of them looks remarkable enough to make me thing about socialism. socdem at most and I’m not even sure.

    that said, maybe living the period from inside gives me some kind of short sighted view, but a bunch of people there that I know that has leftist tendencies (most of them anarchists, no clue why) have a similar readings of the situation






  • you have to be careful when talking about Morena because a lot of what they do is based on optics.

    they created social programs where many could be summarized at giving money directly to a group of people but at the same time they removed others or restricted budgets to organizations that were more helpful to some other group (the one i remember the most was the shelters for women victims of violence where they reduced the budget to the point a lot of them had to close or to survive on donations). actual reduction of poverty might be true in data, but most of the people i know at Mexico concurr that situation is either the same as before or worse overall

    also, a bunch of the infrastructure projects were plain incomplete, didn’t solve the problem they were planned to solve and they could be traced to profits for some big magnate.

    this is the party that is actively blocking the legislation to change the work week from 48h to 40h so calling them a Burgeois party is very well deserved

    worst of all is that all of that was the old Morena. current one adopted a SHITLOAD of politicians from other parties just because it’s pretty much confirmed they are going to win the next elections so everyone wants a piece of the cake. Sheinbaum is directly tied to the inmoviliary groups that are, quite literal, draining the mexico city dry and she is also tied to a lot of big capitalist entities (like, she had a conversation with blackrock about investments in mexico).

    just to be clear, the other parties are probably worse. the communist party is extreme small and it has little to no power. there are some anarchist groups organizing protests but they are still on the small side so they cannot make big changes yet. by being so close to the us, the red scare was also very strong so most people believe comunist bad, anarchist bad and so on