Ricardo Pascoe Pierce
According to Sheinbaum’s interpretation of “interference” today at the event at the Monument to the Revolution, it is a one-way street. From there to here. From the United States against Mexico, which steadfastly defends its sovereignty. “Mexico is no one’s piñata,” the president said.
It was a speech full of clichés about the unconfirmed achievements of the Morena government, seasoned with a very clear message against the United States. She questioned the U.S. grand jury indictments regarding the link between Morena and drug trafficking. She finds the use of these legal instruments suspicious and questions their intent.
Underlying her speech is a shift toward autarky and Mexico’s distancing itself from a functional relationship with the United States. It is not an agreed-upon break. It is a warning, with no turning back. She made her true concern explicit: “They want to intervene in the 2027 elections.”
Furthermore, she sought to refute the accusation that she and her party represent narco-terrorism. She asserted that the true partners of drug trafficking are the PRI and the PAN. In doing so, she claims that her party and her government do not protect drug traffickers, specifically the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. To avoid contradicting herself in her staunch defense of Rocha, she refrained from saying what she would do with those charged in U.S. indictments.
As a backdrop to this debate—and with Morena’s leniency toward those accused of drug trafficking ever-present—is the memory of the release AMLO secured for General Cienfuegos through a mini-trial that led to his release and subsequent awards for “his service to the Fatherland.” Does Sheinbaum plan to do the same: a mini-trial and his release? The defendants who surrendered to the United States obviously do not share the president’s view. They fear for their lives and trust neither Sheinbaum nor Morena.
Sheinbaum does not explain why Mexico can intervene in other countries’ electoral processes while railing against the United States for doing the same. Honduras, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina have received direct financial aid, as well as political and organizational support, from Mexico. Mexico’s “secret” tool for intervening in other countries is called Canal RED.
The government funds this project by Pablo Iglesias, a Spaniard, through opaque contracts and support that have never been explained or justified by many federal agencies. The ministries of Health, Welfare, Public Safety, the Interior, Education, and Communications and Transportation have funded this political project with millions of pesos. The company owned by Iglesias that receives million-peso contracts from Mexican government agencies is called Agitprop Iglesias Armendáriz S. de R.L. de C.V. This company operates Canal RED in Mexico.
And it is the instrument through which Mexico intervenes in the elections and political processes of other Latin American countries, as well as in Spain. Canal RED actively intervened in the elections in Honduras, funded by Morena, with activism that provoked a backlash. They lost the election. It is intervening in Colombia’s elections right now. It is surely already intervening in Brazil’s upcoming elections. The point is that Canal RED is the interventionist political tool that Sheinbaum and Morena use to interfere in other countries’ elections, seeking to ensure the election of leaders sympathetic to Mexican Morenism.
Jesús Ramírez, the National Palace’s preferred political operative, is the one who managed to establish Iglesias’s company in Mexico. Given the composition of Iglesias’s team, it is evident that the Mexican government has also approved his promotion of Russian geopolitical interests in Mexico and throughout Latin America.
In her presidential address, fueled by an exaggerated nationalism, Sheinbaum expressed her government’s determination to continue interfering in other countries’ political processes, while disguising its interventionism by condemning the actions of the U.S. government.
The problem is that the more she attacks the United States, and the more indictments there are against governors, legislators, and officials, the greater the crisis that will dangerously foreshadow the collapse of the Morena government. The president’s political calculation is out of control. She does not think about Mexico. She thinks only of Morena, however fleeting that may be.
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