THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT MAKING AN INTERNATIONAL RIDICULE OF ITSELF

In just two weeks of President Claudia Sheinbaum's government, Mexico has already become a laughingstock in the concert of nations.

Not only has the issue of insecurity gone around the world, because on the day of President Claudia Sheinbaum's inauguration (October 1), a group of soldiers from the Mexican Army fired on a transport of undocumented immigrants in the state of Chiapas, killing six of them.

But, five days later (October 6), the mayor of the capital of the state of Guerrero (located on the southern coast of the Mexican Pacific), Chilpancingo, Alejandro Arcos, a member of the opposition coalition PAN-PRI-PRD, was kidnapped, murdered and decapitated (they left his head on top of a car, and his body in the passenger seat), by a criminal group. It should be noted that the former municipal president of the Morena party (the ruling party in Mexico), Norma Otilia Hernández Martínez, had had meetings with the leaders of a criminal group, since in July 2023, videos with audio were released in which the municipal president was having breakfast with the leaders of this group, so one of the hypotheses of the brutal murder of the new mayor (only three days before, the general secretary of the municipality had been murdered), is that he was not willing to continue his complicity with said criminal group.

The horrendous images of the mayor's head on the car have gone around the world, and with-it Mexico continues to be considered the country with the most powerful criminal organizations on the planet.

Such shamelessness of a criminal group can only be explained by the weakness and complicity of the municipal, state and federal authorities in the face of organized crime.

In Culiacán, the capital of the state of Sinaloa (northern coast of the Mexican Pacific), since the surrender of the main leader of the Sinaloa cartel Ismael "el Mayo" Zambada to the United States authorities, a war has broken out between the members of the cartel who support him and the sons of "el Chapo" Guzmán, for control of the cartel, which has already caused more than 150 people to be killed, dozens more to disappear and the disruption of the normal activities of that city.

Another source of ridicule for Claudia Sheinbaum's government is her insistence that the King of Spain apologize to the indigenous peoples of Mexico for the massacres and abuses that the Spanish committed against them during the conquest and colonial periods.

The first to demand such an apology was then-President López Obrador in 2019, through a letter he sent to King Felipe VI, which was never answered.

According to Sheinbaum, this "discourtesy" motivated the president not to invite the Spanish king to her inauguration, which caused the Spanish government not to send any representative to the ceremony.

On October 11, Sheinbaum reiterated her demand that the king apologize on Hispanic Day, which is commemorated on October 12 in Spain (coinciding with the date of Columbus' arrival in America).

Of course, the Spanish government has not apologized for events that happened 500 years ago (the conquest) and 200 years ago (the end of the Spanish Empire's rule over what is now Mexico), since neither Mexico nor Spain existed as such on those dates; and because publicly accepting such acts of abuse could generate economic demands from the native peoples, not only from Mexico, but also from the South and West of the United States and from Central America, which were then part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.

And one more fact that makes the Sheinbaum government and the Morena party, which has majorities in both chambers of Congress and in the governorships, look completely ridiculous, is the beginning of the unclean, confusing and very expensive process of direct election through popular vote of judges, magistrates and ministers of the Supreme Court, which is unprecedented in the international arena, and which means that judges, magistrates and ministers who have 20, 30 and even 40 years of judicial career now have to stand for election (half of the positions will be elected in 2025 and the other half in 2027), in order to remain in office.

If it continues like this, Claudia Sheinbaum's government will become a constant source of shame and laughter around the world, with all that this means for the daily lives of Mexicans, who demand that their leaders get to work to solve the serious problems that plague the country.

President Claudia Sheinbaum also announced a few days ago that she is about to finish writing a book about her victory in this year's elections, which seems incredible, since instead of writing a book, she should be getting to work.