By
Don Knowland
Andrés Manuel López Obrador
(AMLO), the presidential candidate of the electoral coalition “Together we will
make history”—comprised of AMLO’s Movement for National Regeneration (Morena),
the Labor Party and the socially conservative Social Encounter Party—is polling
in the high 40s and maintains an 18-20 point lead over Ricardo Anaya Cortés,
candidate of the coalition “For Mexico to the Front”—comprised of Anaya’s
right-wing Authentic National Party (PAN), the formerly “center-left” Party of
the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and the Citizen’s Movement (MC). In third place
with under 20 percent is José Antonio Meade Kuribreña of the ruling
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and his “Everyone for Mexico”
coalition.
AMLO’s commanding lead in the winner-take-all election reflects
popular rejection of the violence, corruption and economic policies carried out
by the current government of PRI President Enrique Peña Nieto and the past two
PAN administrations of Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón.
With AMLO projected to win handily on July 1, and with Meade given
virtually no chance to turn his campaign around, last week witnessed an
extraordinary series of heated charges, denials, intrigues and maneuvers as the
Mexican ruling class works out its strategic response to the rise of AMLO.
Less than two months ago, Anaya insisted he might seek to jail the
current President Enrique Peña Nieto for corruption should he prevail. But last
week AMLO charged that Anaya met last month with a group of prominent
businessmen from the Mexican Business Council (Consejo Mexicano de Negocios,
CMN), which includes Mexico’s 10 richest magnates, to discuss “impunity” for
the president in exchange for the PRI supporting Anaya in order to defeat AMLO.
Anaya denied this, but a video had surfaced of him meeting the
prior Friday with high-level executives of Mexico’s second largest bank,
Citibanamex, global giant Citibank’s Mexican subsidiary, in which he said that
he is willing to “build” an alliance with Peña Nieto so that Meade would step
down to prevent AMLO from winning.
Anaya then clarified that he was not seeking a “pact” with the
president involving impunity for the latter, nor was he asking Meade to call it
quits. Instead, Anaya was just seeking what he called “useful votes,” that is,
votes from the PRI’s coalition that would not be wasted if they could stop
AMLO.
The spokesperson for the Meade presidential campaign, Javier
Lozano, acknowledged that there is a lot of pressure from the business sector
for Meade and Calderón’s former first lady Margarita Zavala, who is running as
an independent, to step down. Meade, he insisted, would not give up his
campaign. Zavala has also not ended her campaign. She is polling at most around
4 percent.
But reflecting its mounting internal tensions, the PRI then
cashiered the party’s president, Enrique Ochoa, replacing him with René Juárez
Cisneros, who was formerly undersecretary to former Interior Minister Miguel
Ángel Osorio Chong. Chong had long been thought to be the most likely PRI
presidential candidate, but he opted not to run because he did not think that
the PRI had a chance to win.
On Thursday morning, the CMN published an article in several
Mexico City newspapers complaining that AMLO had slandered them by saying that
their attempt to have Anaya approach Peña Nieto for support amounted to
unlawful intervention in the electoral process.
The president of the larger Mexican Employer Coordinating Council
(Consejo Coordinador Empresarial, CCE) then defended its members, demanding
that AMLO stop attacking the captains of Mexican industry.
Gustavo de Hoyos, the president of Coparmex, the giant Mexican
Employers’ Association (Confederación Patronal de la República Mexicana, CPRM),
asserted its power in a thinly veiled threat to AMLO:
“We are not going to allow under any circumstances to have a
return to authoritarianism. We will not allow what we saw in 1970, where
society became polarized. We will not allow or accept in any way that
Manichaeism that wants to divide Mexican society between rich and poor, between
the people and the fifis [playboys], between businessmen and workers, between
güeros [blondes] and morenas [dark-skinned people].”
In a wide-ranging interview Thursday on the Televisa network,
Mexico’s largest, AMLO responded by calling the CMN bigshots a “power mafia”
who had obstructed democracy and waged a dirty war against him to derail his
political project. He was not anti-business, he insisted, noting that he only
sought to end the reign of this small group of “influence peddlers.”
In fact, in the interview López Obrador went out of his way to
once again assure Mexican business that he is not advancing a left-wing
program. He favors a free market, he said, with an independent central bank and
free fluctuation for the peso.
AMLO insisted there will be no persecution of politicians or
businessmen, there would be no expropriations of businesses, nor would anything
that past governments sold or privatized be taken over by the government. He
said he would not waste his time in such “useless” battles.
AMLO also reversed his previously-stated intention to cancel
construction of the new multi-billion-dollar Mexico City airport—the biggest
public works project in the country’s history, and a gold mine to those like Carlos
Slim, Mexico’s richest man, who were awarded major construction contracts. The
massive project would not be automatically canceled, AMLO said, but only
reviewed for corruption, cost effectiveness.
Despite attacking the North American Free Trade Agreement in the
past as unfair to certain layers of Mexican business and small farmers, López
Obrador said nothing to undermine the recent assurances of his top aides that
he would respect the terms of a renegotiated NAFTA if the US, Mexico and Canada
reach a deal before the July election.
AMLO’s assurances once again demonstrate that he is at most a
tepid social democrat, albeit a somewhat nationalist throwback, who would be at
home, like Bernie Sanders—although without the latter’s pretenses to
socialism—in the American Democratic Party. In reality, López Obrador
represents little threat to the capitalist order in Mexico. If there is an
explosion of mass opposition by the Mexican working class AMLO may be in the
best position to contain it, much as Syriza did in Greece.
But important sections of both the American and Mexican
bourgeoisie oppose even AMLO’s mild proposals for reform. The US is also
concerned that in the face of Trump’s aggressive trade policies AMLO would be
more likely to turn to China for economic development should he be elected.
Propaganda campaigns linking AMLO to Venezuela and Cuba, and even to specious
charges of Russian attempts to meddle in Mexico’s election, have already been
attempted, although those efforts seem to have fallen flat for lack of traction
in the public.
The World Socialist Web Site has
recently reported that Google, Facebook and Twitter, which are increasingly
integrated with the American state and its intelligence agencies, have entered
into contracts over the last few months with Mexico’s National Electoral
Institute (INE), which runs the elections. (See here and here). Already able to manipulate and censor
social media in order to favor one or another party or candidate, these
corporations have effectively been handed over the keys to INE’s computers with
the possibility they will manipulate election results on a real-time basis if
the ruling class so decides.
Such extreme measures could lead to large-scale protests that may
trigger an emergency government or the imposition of martial law. Mexico’s new
Internal Security Law enacted in December gives the president the power to order
the Army and Navy to intervene in response to “threats to internal security.”
CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE MONITOR
WHAT DOES MEXICO DO FOR THEIR POOR? THEY EXPORT THEM ALONG
WITH THEIR CRIMINAL CLASS TO LOOT AMERICA, AND LOOT THEY DO!
MEXICO’S BIGGEST EXPORT TO
AMERICA… POVERTY, CRIMINALS, ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS FOR WELFARE and HEROIN
Mexico prefers to export
its poor, not uplift them
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0330/p09s02-coop.html
Adios, Sanctuary La Raza Welfare State of California
A fifth-generation Californian laments his state’s ongoing
economic collapse.
By Steve Baldwin
American Spectator, October 19, 2017
What’s clear is that the producers are leaving the state and the takers are
coming in. Many of the takers are illegal aliens, now estimated to number over
2.6 million. The Federation for American
Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22 billion on government
services for illegal aliens, including welfare, education, Medicaid, and
criminal justice system costs.
Billionaire Mexicans tell their poor to JUMP U.S. OPEN BORDERS
and LOOT THE STUPID GRINGO… and loot they do!
Billions of dollars are sucked out of
America from Mexico’s looting!
1) Mexico
ended legal immigration 100 years ago, except for Spanish blood.
2) Mexico is the 17th richest nation
but pays the 220th lowest minimum wage to force their subjects to invade the
USA. The expands territory for Mexicans, spreads the Spanish language, and
culture and genotypes, while earning 17% of Mexico's gross GDP as Foreign
Remittance Income.
JUDICIAL WATCH:
America builds the La Raza
“The Race” Mexican welfare state
Illegal Immigration Costs U.S.
Taxpayers a Stunning $134.9 Billion a Year
THE GRUESOME VIOLENCE OF THE MEXICAN… over, under and in our open borders.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/03/san-antonio-texas-staggering-violence.html
WHO WILL RID US OF THE
INVADERS?
MEXIFORNIA under LA RAZA SUPREMACY RULE: CA has the largest and most expensive prison system in the nation. Half the inmates are Mexicans. Half the murders in CA are by Mexican gangs.
In Mexico’s second largest city of Los Angeles, 93% of the murders are by
Mexicans.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/03/california-under-la-raza-mexican.htm
"The
state of California and the sanctuary city laws that make it a safe-haven for criminal
illegal aliens is likely responsible for at least 5,000 crimes that were
committed by criminal illegal aliens released by local authorities rather than
being handed over to federal immigration officials."
Critics argue that
giving amnesty to 12 to 30 million illegal aliens in the U.S. would have an
immediate negative impact on America’s working and middle class — specifically
black Americans and the white working class — who would be in direct
competition for blue-collar jobs with the largely low-skilled illegal alien
population." JOHN BINDER
*
"Additionally,
under current legal immigration laws, if given amnesty, the illegal alien
population would be allowed to bring an unlimited number of their foreign relatives
to the U.S. This population could boost already high legal immigration levels
to an unprecedented high. An amnesty for illegal aliens would also likely
triple the number of border-crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border." JOHN
BINDER
*
“At the current rate of invasion
(mostly through Mexico, but also through Canada) the United States will be
completely over run with illegal aliens by the year 2025. I’m not talking about
legal immigrants who follow US law to become citizens. In less than 20 years,
if we do not stop the invasion, ILLEGAL aliens and their offspring will be the
dominant population in the United States”…. Tom Barrett
MURDERING
MS-13 GANGS EXPAND ACROSS AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/04/operation-matador-nabs-475-gang-members.html
AMERICA’S
OPEN BORDERS TO TERRORIST… as we defend the borders of every Muslim dictator on
earth!
Recommended Video:
What is MS-13?
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/02/americas-open-borders-border-to-open.html
10,000
LOSE IN OUR OPEN BORDERS RAPING, MURDERING AND VOTING DEMOCRAT FOR MORE ANCHOR
BABY WELFARE.
THE LA RAZA INVASION:
The Washington-imposed economic policy of
economic growth via mass-immigration floods the
market with foreign labor, spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by
blue-collar and white-collar employees. It also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least 5 million
marginalized Americans and
their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions. NEIL
MUNRO
PARTNER WITH MEXICO, the LA RAZA DEMOCRAT PARTY and the
PRO-BUSINESS GOP to keep wages for LEGALS depressed (today they are depressed
to 1973 levels).
But you will still get the tax bills for the Mex welfare state and
crime tidal wave!
“Illegal
aliens are not supposed to work, and knowingly providing shelter for illegal
aliens can be construed as harboring and shielding, elements of a felony under
federal law, Title 8 U.S. Code §
1324.”
“Where aliens
and jobs are concerned, even many categories of nonimmigrant aliens (temporary
visitors) including aliens who lawfully enter under the Visa Waiver Program or
with tourist visas may not work in the United States and immediately become
subject to removal (deportation) if they seek gainful employment.”
----MICHAEL CUTLER – FRONTPAGE mag
IMPOSE E-VERIFY AND YOU INSTANTLY CREATE MILLIONS MORE JOBS AND
FORCE WAGES UP!
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