Mexico: Weekly Newsletter
We hereby share an unofficial translation of the Mexico part of the latest Weekly Newsletter published by Red Sun.
How should we understand the fact that, after the State’s response to women on March 8, the government of the “first woman president” holds a mass event in the main square of the city presenting herself as a “heroine of the homeland”? Here are some points to consider.
1) On March 8, dozens of demonstrations were recorded in the main cities of all states in the republic; millions of women took to the streets with mobilizations of working women and feminists.
2) All these demonstrations surpassed the numbers of previous years; only in Mexico City, more than 200,000 women marched (according to the city government, in 2024, 180,000 marched, in 2023 – 90,000, in 2022 – 75,000, in 2021 – 20,000, and in 2020 – 80,000); in the rest of the country, the figures were also higher than in previous years.
3) The common denominator among state and federal governments has been the presence of riot police (both women and men), metal barriers, and patrol cars that were coordinated from monitoring centers with cameras and even drones that watched (harassed) the women’s marches.
4) In Chihuahua, the PAN government of María Eugenia Campos Galván violently attacked the demonstrators with blows and electric shocks, violently detaining at least three members of the Black Bloc, who were presented to the Prosecutor’s Office and released hours later; one of them was hospitalized due to the injuries received. In Oaxaca, the MORENA government of Salomón Jara Cruz fortified the main square of the city and in the afternoon attacked the feminist march with tear gasses and rubber bullets from the roof of the palace of the ignominy (government palace) and the cathedral. In Hidalgo, the MORENA government of Ramón Menchaca Salazar also attacked the women’s march with batons, shields, tear gasses, and fire extinguishers; at least 13 comrades were detained, and the last of them was released late at night.
5) Claudia Sheinbaum’s corporatist event on March 9 was intended to be a patriotic response to Donald Trump’s tariff and interventionist policies, but it served only as a spectacle that showed the servile condition of the old Mexican State before Yankee imperialism by triumphantly announcing “another extension” until April 2. It was also observed that a day after March 8, there were no longer metal barriers and everything was prepared to receive the hired crowds; there were no riot police, and everything was “official joy.” Something that was also evident and no less important (in politics, form is substance) was the slight that Sheinbaum received from Andrés Manuel López Beltrán (AMLO’s son), Luisa María Alcalde, and other politicians like Adán Augusto, Ricardo Monreal, and Manuel Velasco (the first two leaders of Morena and the last three who contended with Claudia for the presidency). Although the president tries to ignore the facts, the day before, the Mexican State attacked with contempt the women who were demonstrating in defense of their rights; and right in her spectacle, she herself was disdained by the highest ranks of her party and her allies. Not only did not everyone arrive, but it is also uncertain if she arrived.
Down with the old State! In the face of repression, mobilization! It is right to rebel!
