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She has made three trips to Acapulco to coordinate recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane John. She has overseen the passage of key constitutional amendments, including measures to restore the passenger train network (privatized and eliminated in the ’90s), return the energy sector to public control, and authorize the federal housing authority, INFONAVIT, to build much-needed social housing. She has launched new programs to lower the pension age for women, provide home-to-home health care for senior citizens, provide day care for the children of maquiladora and field workers, and ban the sale of junk food in schools. And she has faced her own gruesome welcome wagon of violence, including the beheading of the mayor of the city of Chilpancingo, Guerrero, a pair of car bombings in the state of Guanajuato, and the killing of six migrants in Chiapas after the military opened fire on the truck carrying them, an incident currently under investigation.
✏️ Holy moly, this was her first month? 🔗 View Highlight
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raise a larger — and largely unresolved — question that has plagued left-leaning governments throughout Latin America: how to defang well-funded lawfare campaigns that clothe themselves in legalese to subvert popular democracy, and how to handle a judiciary that violates the law in the name of defending it, converting itself in the process into a renegade political actor.
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put Sheinbaum’s administration in an early bind: either knuckle under and accept its wayward ruling or be seen as disobeying the highest court of the land, thus reinforcing the authoritarian image of Morena’s popular government carefully cultivated by the national and international press over the last six years.
✏️ These corrupt judges throw in these terrible rulings, not because they think they’ll win, but because it causes this bind to happen. You will be seen as “disobeying” a ruling and look authoritarian by contrast. Even though everyone voted for this.. the public, etc. and it’s part of the constitution. At the end of the day, performance still matters because nuance will always get lost as too much detail. We can’t hold details. 🔗 View Highlight