The Situation in Mexico

Mexico recognizes Palestine, and Israel describes it as an act that supports terrorism.

On September 22, 2025, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum reiterated on social media and in a public message that Mexico recognizes the Palestinian state and joins initiatives to stop what she described as "genocide" in Gaza.

Sheinbaum said: "Stop this genocide in Gaza..."There can't be an attack on the civilian population like the one happening right now."

The Palestinian Embassy in Mexico celebrated Sheinbaum's stance as an "act of truth" and a step toward justice.

In response, the Israeli Embassy in Mexico issued a statement criticizing the unilateral recognition of Palestine. The text states: "Such measures also send a worrying message to terrorist organizations in Gaza, Iran, Yemen, and other parts of the world, which interpret it as a form of support."

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The next color revolution in Mexico​

One Piece is an anime (and manga/comic) created by Eiichiro Oda about an epic adventure of pirates in search of the legendary treasure known as the One Piece. One of the themes addressed in this anime is the struggle of young people against the World Government.

In September 2025, Nepal was the scene of one of the most striking youth protests of the year: the so-called Generation Z protests (or "Revolution Z"). These demonstrations, led mainly by young people of Generation Z, erupted against government corruption, nepotism, economic inequality, and, in particular, the ban on social media. The movement went viral globally and is directly linked to the use of the One Piece flag as a symbol of rebellion, similar to what has happened in Indonesia, Peru, and now Mexico.
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The Generación Z México movement claims to be a non-partisan youth collective that seeks to protest against corruption, impunity, and the lack of opportunities in the country.

However, Gen Z Mexico has some very unusual characteristics that set it apart from organic movements. Opposition parties thought it would be a good idea to adopt the model, given what happened in Peru and Nepal, and apply it in Mexico to call for the revocation of President Claudia Sheinbaum's mandate, who enjoys a 70% approval rating among the population.

The assassination of Carlos Alberto Manzo Rodríguez (known as the Mexican Bukele), independent mayor of Uruapan, Michoacán, on November 1, 2025, during the Festival of Candles for the Day of the Dead, acted as a key trigger for the Generación Z México movement.

Opposition parties quickly seized the opportunity, and their youth wings worked intensively on social media to encourage Gen Z Mexico to take the murder as one of their reasons to take to the streets in protest. Immediately after the crime, accounts such as @generacionz_mx and @somosgeneracionmx published manifestos linking the murder to the "federal government's inability" to protect local leaders, demanding "justice and an end to impunity." AI videos and memes garnered millions of views, connecting the pain of Michoacán with the "collective weariness" of young people.

Gen Z Mexico called for a mega march in Mexico City on November 15.

Sheinbaum called it a "dirty war" with AI and "far-right" (PRI, PAN) bots, linking it to influencers such as Miguel de Samaniego (PAN spokesperson) and Edson Andrade (former PRI member).

Research indicates that 50% of interactions come from abroad, and fake accounts used the assassination to attack the President. An investigation by Proyecto Migala (a citizen movement that seeks a more horizontal form of democratic participation and aspires to become an "alliance of people who want to change the world," according to its website) indicates that the Gen Z Mexico manifesto is a PDF that, according to metadata analysis , came from a monetization agency called Monetic Agency, which helps right-wing media monetize their networks and is linked to the PRI.

Thanks to this and other publications, the real youth movements disassociated themselves from the Gen Z Mexico Movement promoted and financed by the opposition (and very possibly also by the US) to attack the government of Claudia Sheinbaum.

Let's see what happens on November 15.

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The case of Ricardo Salinas Pliego​

Puma said:
One of these elite conservatives is businessman, television entrepreneur, tax evader, and libertarian Ricardo Salinas Pliego, who, according to rumors, is now seeking the Mexican presidency. The question is, given Argentina's experience with Milei, will Mexico dare to become libertarian under the patronage of the populist conservative Trump?
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Ricardo Salinas Pliego, Mexico's fifth richest man and owner of Grupo Salinas (which includes companies such as TV Azteca, Elektra, and Banco Azteca), has been at the center of intense fiscal and political controversy in the last weeks of November 2025. The climax was a ruling by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) requiring him to pay tax credits of 48.326 million pesos (approximately $2.6 billion rounded) to the Tax Administration Service (SAT), a debt accumulated over 17 years for alleged fraud and tax noncompliance.

Salinas Pliego had filed more than 1,000 legal appeals to avoid payment, including injunctions and appeals in all courts. This has been described as a "never-ending battle" by the tax authorities, who accuse him of using the judicial system to delay payment.

That's right, Salinas Pliego, aided by the neoliberal economic system and the corrupt governments of the PRI and PAN, not only evaded taxes, but also took over state-owned companies and amassed a huge fortune that in part is suspected to have been achieved through money laundering in casinos and online gambling sites.

The beginning of the end of Salinas' corruption came when Andrés Manuel López Obrador became president. In March 2024, AMLO revealed that, at the request of Ricardo Salinas Pliego himself, his government reviewed the tax case and offered him a legal solution. The debt at that time was estimated at around 26,000 million pesos (approximately $1.3 billion at the exchange rate at the time) AMLO offered him a legal discount of 8,000 million pesos, (approximately $900 million). This included the elimination of surcharges, fines, and accrued interest, but Salinas rejected the proposal, opting to continue the litigation in the Judiciary.

On November 13, in a historic session, the Court dismissed seven of the nine appeals filed by Grupo Salinas, thus confirming the validity of the tax credits. Salinas Pliego immediately used his television platform (TV Azteca) and social media to portray himself as a victim and accuse Claudia Sheinbaum's government of political persecution.

Sheinbaum celebrated the ruling in her morning press conference as "justice, plain and simple," emphasizing that ministers "owe it to the people." She linked Salinas to an alleged disinformation network (including social media accounts) behind "Generation Z" marches scheduled for November 15, estimated to cost 90 million pesos in campaign funds. She warned that if he does not pay, "legal proceedings" will be initiated to seize assets. The U.S. Embassy denied any "persecution" against Salinas, clarifying that there is no bilateral follow-up on the tax case. In fact, Ricardo Salinas Pliego, through his companies, faces a principal debt with U.S. investors and creditors arising from bonds issued in 2017. This is not a tax debt, but rather a civil lawsuit for default on payments.

At the end of September, Ricardo Salinas Pliego paid a $25 million bond to avoid arrest in the United States.

Political and financial experts point out that what Sheinbaum's government did was the right thing, given that it preempted the US court ruling against Salinas, thus ensuring that vulture funds would not take over the businessman's companies.

Salinas is the kind of parasite who would rather see Mexico burn than accept defeat. It comes as no surprise that he and the opposition are financing the color revolution that is Gen-Z Mexico. (Basically, the conservative right-wing opposition is using young liberals to attack the left-wing government... yeah it is crazy)

It is well known that the international right wing aligns itself with religious symbols, and in the case of Mexico, the Marian image of Guadalupe, which was taken up by Vicente Fox, is now being raised by Salinas Pliego in an effort to attract the masses of Guadalupe believers to his cause. This mass is composed mainly of low-income, poor people who are not only consumers of TV Azteca programs and Elektra stores but also dependents on the pensions granted by the Sheinbaum government.

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Clashes break out during ‘Gen Z’ protest in Mexico City (VIDEOS)​


"Although the rally began peacefully, a group of masked rioters described by local media as Black Bloc broke through security barriers, hurled stones, and fought with officers."

"Videos from the scene show protesters hitting officers, as well as police kicking a protester lying on the ground."

"The activists say they are protesting corruption, abuse of power, and impunity for violent crime. Many chanted slogans denouncing the ruling left-wing Morena party."

"Mexican protesters spray-painted "Jewish whore" on the National Palace during the violent anti-corruption demonstration outside the palace in rejection of Claudia Sheinbaum, the country's first female Jewish president."

Articles with commentary and videos below:

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Clashes break out during ‘Gen Z’ protest in Mexico City (VIDEOS)

Protesters clashed with riot police outside the presidential palace in Mexico City on Saturday
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Senseless violence​

The words spray-painted against President Claudia Sheinbaum ("Jewish whore") demonstrate what the opposition in Mexico is like: misogynistic, racist, and classist. Although Sheinbaum is of Jewish descent on (her grandparents were Lithuanian and Bulgarian), she does not practice the Jewish religion. She was born into a family of scientists in Mexico City, where her parents raised her in a secular environment, without any religion. Sheinbaum describes herself as a person of faith, but not religious, and strongly defends Mexico's secular state, avoiding leaning toward any belief in her public life. She has always downplayed her Jewish heritage to focus on her Mexican identity.

If anything became clear yesterday during the so-called Generation Z protest, it is that this is not an organic movement but one financed by the Mexican and international right wing. In fact, the vast majority of those who marched in Mexico City were Millennials, Gen Xers, and Boomers associated with the Catholic Church, the PAN, and the PRI, with a minority of young people driven by influencers and utopian ideas.
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Vicente Luffy Fox joins the National March of GenerationZ, meeting the age requirement at 83 years old.​
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(The Cs once mentioned that Vicente Fox thought Trump was naive and deserved to be trolled. Well, he still thinks that the rest of us in Mexico are naive and suck our thumbs )

The masked individuals known as "Bloque Negro" (Black block, an international anarchist group known for direct confrontation tactics in protests, such as the use of hoods, vandalism, and clashes with the police) have had a greater presence and impact in riots and protests since AMLO's presidency. They have links to the opposition and business groups.

One of Bloque Negro's objectives is to make the Sheinbaum administration appear repressive and authoritarian, in the eyes of international public opinion. However, the 4T administrations have so far refrained from using public force against vandals, with the police force acting more as a deterrent. For journalist Erick Gutierrez , this is a mistake that could be capitalized on by the opposition:​
The march on November 15 made it clear that two mistakes can ruin any protest: the gratuitous violence of a handful of demonstrators and the lack of operational finesse on the part of the state.

The hooded individuals who came to provoke ripped down fences and threw objects; to deny this would be to lie. There were also moments when the police response became clumsy, affecting people who were not involved in the confrontation.

It was not repression in the strict sense, but neither was it a clean operation. It was a scenario in which no one came out unscathed, and the data speaks for itself: dozens of injured, mostly police officers, about twenty detainees, and a heavily guarded Zócalo that ended up being the symbol of an authority more concerned with avoiding damage than with managing tensions intelligently.

The government has defended its actions, but it would be very healthy to acknowledge that there were failures.

When an operation fails to separate aggressors from attendees, the strategy needs to be reviewed. However, to claim that Mexico is living under a repressive state or on the brink of a dictatorship is a self-serving statement. There was no manhunt or disappearances, nor orders to crush the protest. The state allowed the march to proceed and only acted when violence erupted. Another issue is that it did so with little tact, which is precisely why it is appropriate to issue a warning rather than a condemnation: poorly calibrated decisions, speeches that stigmatize those who organize protests, and a public security force that still cannot find the right balance between control and respect can fuel narratives that do not correspond to reality.

Mexico is not an authoritarian regime, but if the authorities do not refine their strategy, others will take it upon themselves to tell the story as if it were.​
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The outcome of the Gen Z Mexico march:

● Injuries: Around 120 people injured in total, including more than 100 police officers (with blows, bruises, and exposure to tear gas) and 20 civilians.

● Arrests: Between 20 and 40 people, mainly for assault and damage. The Mexico City Attorney General's Office is investigating those responsible for criminal acts.

● Damage: Barriers knocked down in front of the National Palace; a patrol car damaged in Puebla; attempts to vandalize the Supreme Court. No major damage reported in other cities, where the marches were more peaceful.

President Claudia Sheinbaum and Infodemia coordinator Miguel Ángel Elorza have pointed out that the Gen Z march was generally financed with some 90 million pesos in digital campaigns, attributing it to a "political operation" by the Mexican and international right wing. They specifically mention businessman Ricardo Salinas Pliego, Claudio X. González and parties such as the PRI and PAN. According to them, these resources fueled fake accounts on TikTok (179 detected), Facebook (359 groups, 28 managed by foreigners) and bots (estimated at 8 million), with support from Atlas Network (a far-right network based in the US, led in Latin America by Salinas' cousin, Roberto Salinas León). Elorza associates this with an attempt at destabilization similar to "soft coups" in other countries.

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Puma said:
If anything became clear yesterday during the so-called Generation Z protest, it is that this is not an organic movement but one financed by the Mexican and international right wing. In fact, the vast majority of those who marched in Mexico City were Millennials, Gen Xers, and Boomers associated with the Catholic Church, the PAN, and the PRI, with a minority of young people driven by influencers and utopian ideas.
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I agree that the violence was not organic - yet the world media is making it look like there's an ongoing revolution in Mexico right now. I also think they are exaggerating the magnitude of it. Yes, it was violent, but I don't think that more than 100 people were punching policemen (and yes, the police were mostly on the receiving end). That is out of a protest that I read amounted to some 3,500 people - which for Mexican protests is absolutely nothing (I've been at protests of 80 K in the same main square). And most of the protestors were quite peaceful indeed. The 'Black Block' or whatever they are called are quite different from the regular protestor. You can tell just by looking at them.

So it seems to me that it was a bunch of provocateurs, but sponsored by whom, I have no idea. Are the usual global suspects attempting a 'color revolution' in Mexico? The over the top reaction of the media seems to be a clue.

By the way, in recent demonstrations (no matter which cause!) those violent people seem to be always there to vandalize and create chaos. Actually, if you look at the Feminist protests each year, there is way more people and way more vandalizing.

Anyway, that's just to say that I get a chuckle when I read headlines from people like Alex Jones claiming that "the Mexican people are overthrowing the Chinese-Communist backed Mexican government and they've taken the National Palace!" Lol, not even close. So take what you read with a grain of sand. It is true that Mexicans are upset about crime and security issues, but they are far from seriously grabbing the guillotine, I think.
 
Speculation:

Venezuela, Colombia and now Ecuador, are not very happy with the US. That's from the Caribbean to the Pacific, and that is "something". But it's Mexico were I think the issue has the potential of becoming hot.

According to the C's the Mexican and US gov. are in cahoots.

Arms going south over the border to Mexico and from international markets as well.

Mexican cartel members volunteering for Ukraine duty to receive real time training on drone warfare.


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Windmill knight said:
I agree that the violence was not organic - yet the world media is making it look like there's an ongoing revolution in Mexico right now.
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One of the main promoters of this idea that a revolution is underway is Ricardo Salinas Pliego, whom I have mentioned in previous posts. Through his television station TV Azteca, he is also denouncing repression against young people. Salinas' media headlines point to "brutal repression of young people" and are resorting to AI to create images. In this one, for example, you can see that the flag has a shadow.

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Salinas also published quite hysterical and historically ignorant posts on X. After the riots, he compared the situation to 1968:
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"Memories of Mexico in 1968: The World Cup was coming up, a corrupt and thieving government, young people detained and disappeared... @Claudiashein, I hope that the hundreds of young people who were detained by your riot police and of whom nothing is known will return alive."​
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Today is a historic day.

Yesterday, the narco-government of
@Claudiashein repressed young people, and there is no doubt about it, they arrested them and have not returned them.

There are the images: Children crying because leftists tear-gassed them. There are the riot police pulling women's hair, in a six-year term that claimed to be humanist and feminist.There is the tear gas of those who cannot tolerate peaceful marches.

There is the wall of the narco-state, erected by the same military who, although they are the people, are used as workers for an unscrupulous regime. And there is also the wall covered with flowers, a crude attempt to simulate well-being, but which the people, who are not naive, tore down, because the real people have awakened.

There is the march called by young people, but which the whole country joined:
doctors without medicine, young people with social programs but no opportunities, older adults who have seen dictatorships before, the rich and the poor who will not be fooled.

There are the fences so that the Zócalo would not look full, and yet thousands managed to dismantle those barriers of repression.

Gassed, beaten, overcoming obstacles... but they were there.

And there is the message:
we must not see what the bot office of
@JesusRCuevas dictates; we must see what is in front of everyone: a people that is not theirs... and that has already awakened.

They are not the same; they are worse... the leftist government hates Mexicans, which is why they attack the man with the flag.​
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This man is desperate, he has multimillion-dollar debts in Mexico and the United States, and he will do everything possible to avoid paying, even if it means setting Mexico on fire.

The National Action Party (PAN) is also jumping on the "brutal repression" bandwagon.
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VIOLENCE AGAINST YOUNG PEOPLE

The #PAN denounced that Generation Z faced alleged state violence during a march in #CDMX. Jorge Romero warned that this generation "will not be silenced" and demanded respect for citizen protests. Orus media​
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Who wants to see Mexico destabilized?
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Puma said:
This man is desperate, he has multimillion-dollar debts in Mexico and the United States, and he will do everything possible to avoid paying, even if it means setting Mexico on fire.
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The guy is very active on social media, not afraid of confronting people, there are rumors he wants to run for office, one cannot exclude the possibility that he might attempt it just to avoid paying his huge debt. Also, recently he complained Mexicans pay too many taxes (we do, of course, as most of the World) but it seems to me he was starting to sell a possible platform.
 
Just another comment on this, looking at both sides, these protests couldn't be possible without a legitimate reason that ignites them. The reason being the country is still deeply suffering Cartel violence, just look at what's happening in Sinaloa, where there is a sort of civil war between the split Sinaloa Cartel after Chapo's kids turned on the Zambadas. Or the battle ground in the Bajío, or Tierra Caliente (where Manzo was killed), or in Jalisco where the CJNG dominates and has in its ranks former (?) US soldiers, i.e. mercenaries.

This is not to discard that the protests were promoted by foreign forces (whoever is acting like the USAID these days).
 
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