Republican presidential candidates are obsessive about Mexico. Ron DeSantis desires to invade it the second he turns into president. Vivek Ramaswamy desires to make use of “army drive to decimate the cartels, Osama bin Laden-style, Soleimani-style.” And naturally, former President Donald Trump, the candidate who has made anti-Mexico hate speech a cornerstone of the modern-day GOP, has reportedly conjured up new battle plans towards cartels that, in accordance with one report, “will not be sanctioned by Mexico’s authorities.”
The concept of invading Mexico to magically win a struggle on medication that the U.S. has already misplaced is supported by 86% of Republican main voters.
The concept of invading Mexico to magically win a struggle on medication that the U.S. has already misplaced is supported by 86% of Republican main voters. So it’s no surprise that candidates are vilifying Mexico to court docket the GOP’s xenophobic base.
The backward Mexico that exists within the GOP’s fevered creativeness will not be the nation that exists. And, no less than on the subject of respecting the rights of ladies and valuing them as leaders, Mexico is forward of the US.
For the primary time ever, the nation’s two main presidential candidates are girls, which nearly ensures that it’ll elect its first lady president in June 2024, months earlier than the U.S., which has by no means elected a lady president, probably chooses one other man.
Former Mexico Metropolis Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, a loyal leftist ally of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, turned the candidate this week for the ruling Morena get together. She’ll face Sen. Xóchitl Gálvez, who was named the opposition coalition’s candidate Aug. 31. For a rustic that granted girls the proper to vote in 1953, 33 years after the US did, the ascension of ladies to political management is exceptional.
As The Washington Put up famous in a report after Sheinbaum’s nomination, “A lady is chief justice of Mexico’s Supreme Court docket. Ladies lead each homes of Congress. Ladies have made up 50% of the legislature since 2021, when Mexico turned the biggest nation to realize gender parity.” Because the Put up notes, Mexico is clearly outpacing the US on the subject of gender high quality and political illustration. “It is a feminist’s dream,” activist Maricruz Ocampo instructed the newspaper about Mexico’s 2024 elections.
In what counts as one other win for ladies, this week, Mexico’s Supreme Court docket totally decriminalized abortion throughout Mexico. As I predicted final 12 months after U.S. Supreme Court docket Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion that will overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked, the ladies’s rights motion in Mexico and different components of Latin America has continued to achieve momentum. The U.S., after all, went on to demolish the constitutional proper to abortion that Roe v. Wade established.
The “feminist’s dream” of a 2024 Mexican election will make the erosion of ladies’s rights right here much more obtrusive. Regardless that Gálvez’s conservative get together doesn’t help the decriminalization of abortion, she herself helps it, as does the extra progressive Sheinbaum. It’s a stark distinction to the abortion debate within the U.S., the place’s there’s usually no frequent floor between candidates of opposing events.
Nikki Haley, the one lady operating for the Republican nomination, has tried to distance herself from the anti-abortion absolutists in her get together by providing consensus alternate options, however she’s nonetheless an abortion opponent, which places her out of step in a rustic the place polls present there’s broad help to make abortion authorized nationwide.
As Mexico strikes ahead on girls’s rights, Republicans are jostling for the possibility to maneuver this nation additional backward.
As Mexico strikes ahead on girls’s rights, Republicans are jostling for the possibility to maneuver this nation additional backward.
To listen to Republicans inform it, Mexico will not be a sovereign nation. It’s not a precious buying and selling companion, although it’s been our nation’s prime buying and selling companion in 2023. It’s not a rustic the place the voices of ladies are being heard greater than they ever have earlier than. It’s nothing greater than a narcostate that must be invaded.
Our southern neighbor has been belittled, ridiculed, focused and scapegoated for too lengthy, and, assuming they wish to win a basic election, Republicans are taking part in a harmful recreation by doing so. As Pew notes, about 60% of all the U.S. Latino inhabitants, about 37.2 million folks, are of Mexican descent.
Right here’s to much less discuss of invasions and extra conversations about how Mexico is reworking itself right into a champion of gender equality. Sufficient of the jabbering about how backward Mexico is when in some extremely vital methods, it’s operating to this point forward of us.
