Mexico: Weekly Newsletter
We hereby share an unofficial translation of the part on Mexico of the weekly newsletter published by Sol Rojo.
The most recent threats of “ground” military intervention against our country demonstrate how well Yankee imperialism knows Claudia Sheinbaum’s lackey government and the weight it exerts over it. This is nothing new. Most of the governments of the republic throughout national history have been subordinate to the mandate of Yankee imperialism (with honorable exceptions), and the most brazen stage clearly began with Miguel de la Madrid’s six-year term and continues to this day; since then, no federal administration has been spared. This includes the governments of the self-proclaimed “fourth transformation,” even though they fill their mouths with speeches and harangues in defense of “national sovereignty” and other patriotic rhetoric that only serves to deceive fools, because in reality they continue to hand over the country to the gringos.
Let’s take a quick look at the Trump-Sheinbaum relationship to better understand the results.
1) After taking office, Donald Trump issued executive orders declaring a 25% increase in tariffs against Mexico, asserting that he would take over the Gulf of Mexico and rename it the “Gulf of America,” and labeling drug cartels as “international terrorist organizations,” thus justifying the possibility of military intervention.
2) Claudia Sheinbaum then offered to mobilize 10,000 members of the National Guard and Mexican Army to the northern border with the US, and the same number to the southern border, to combat migration and drug trafficking.
3) Trump again threatened to impose another 25% tariff on specific products and to attack cartels considered “narco-terrorists” with drones.
4) Sheinbaum responds by deporting 29 drug lords imprisoned in Mexican jails and increasing operations against Chinese imports.
5) The US government mobilizes three destroyers off the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific, launches drone flights over Mexican territory as “intelligence” operations against “narco-terrorism”; Trump threatens to deploy troops and issues threats regarding the USMCA;
6) The Mexican government carries out more seizures and confiscations of drug infrastructure and logistics and imposes greater restrictions on products from China; in addition, the Mexican Senate authorizes the entry of the US army into national territory for “cooperation and training” tasks.
7) The US increases its military presence on the coast and border with Mexico, while militarizing the Caribbean, bombing civilian vessels, and threatening Venezuela with bombing and kidnapping its president Nicolás Maduro and his partner Cilia Flores; it then threatens to “do something” against Mexico, saying that the country is under the control of drug traffickers.
8) Mexico begins the year by imposing tariffs of up to 50% on Chinese imports. the Sheinbaum government issues lukewarm statements on Venezuela and activates its alerts by sending the reactionary Juan Ramón de la Fuente, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, and the fascist Esteban Moctezuma, Mexico’s ambassador to the US, to seek dialogue (read: to offer up the country) with Trump’s imperialist government.
9) Trump escalates his threats against Mexico, warning of a military ground intervention against “narco-terrorism” as a “threat to national security” in the US.
10) Finally, on January 12, Sheinbaum manages to make her first call of the year to Donald Trump, where she reports on “public results in the area of security, such as the number of drug laboratories seized, people arrested in connection with organized crime, and the reduction in homicides.” The final agreement of this conversation is, as the federal government itself acknowledges, the agenda of “security, combating drug trafficking, trade, and investment,” clearly in favor of the Yankees.
In July of this year, the first six-year review of the USMCA [Translator’s note: US-Mexico-Canada Agreement] will take place between the governments of the US, Canada, and Mexico, and Yankee imperialism will surely take advantage of its hegemonic position to deal a new blow to Mexican national sovereignty in the face of the federal government’s timid and weak attitude. Let no one misunderstand, it is not the fault of Sheinbaum or her political boss Andrés Manuel López Obrador; if the PRI-PAN-PRD-MC or any other party were in power, it would be the same. The blame lies with the big bourgeoisie and its creole streak, which makes it unpatriotic and submissive, always subordinate to Yankee imperialism, and totally uninterested and alien to the defense of the homeland and national sovereignty.
The task of fighting in defense of national sovereignty and against imperialism falls to the proletariat and the peoples of Mexico. This makes it imperative to work for the unification of the forces of the people, raising a powerful anti-imperialist movement that will take combative action in the struggle for National Liberation and the New Democratic Revolution, uninterrupted toward Socialism. No to US interference in our country! Yankees go home! To defend national sovereignty and fight against imperialism, let us build a powerful anti-imperialist movement! For National Liberation, New Democracy, and Socialism!
