{"id":3379,"date":"2024-06-02T22:18:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T22:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=3379"},"modified":"2024-06-02T22:18:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T22:18:04","slug":"same-ol-same-ole-mexicos-presidential-election-likely-to-change-nothing-south-of-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=3379","title":{"rendered":"Same Ol&#8217;, Same Ole: Mexico&#8217;s Presidential Election Likely to Change Nothing South of the Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/AP22173033965076-scaled.jpg\" data-caption=\"Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador may be out, but don't expect the country's polices to change. (AP Photo\/Fernando Llano, File)\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/AP22173033965076-696x464.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/AP22173033965076-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/AP22173033965076-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/AP22173033965076-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/AP22173033965076-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/AP22173033965076-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/AP22173033965076-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/AP22173033965076-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/AP22173033965076-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/AP22173033965076-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/AP22173033965076-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/AP22173033965076-560x373.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"Mexico Corruption President Obrador\" title=\"Mexico Corruption President Obrador\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador may be out, but don&#8217;t expect the country&#8217;s polices to change. (AP Photo\/Fernando Llano, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mexico\u2019s voters will head to the polls today to choose who will succeed Mexican President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador. He\u2019s the controversial figure who adopted a \u201chugs, not bullets\u201d approach to handling narco-terrorist cartels that have ravaged his country. He\u2019s also the one who signed off on the controversial $10 billion lawsuit against firearm manufacturers that\u2019s being <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/gun-makers-urge-us-supreme-court-hear-appeal-mexicos-lawsuit-2024-04-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appealed<\/a><\/strong> to the U.S. Supreme Court, after being revived by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, as well as a <a href=\"https:\/\/thereload.com\/judge-greenlights-mexicos-lawsuit-against-arizona-gun-sellers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>similar lawsuit<\/strong><\/a> against several retailers in federal court in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Not content to bankrupt members of the firearm industry, Mexico\u2019s lawsuits infringe on the Second Amendment, U.S. national sovereignty and usurp the role of Congress and state legislatures by imposing a nationwide injunction on how Mexico believes firearms should be sold in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mexico-elections-explainer-claudia-sheinbaum-xochitl-galvez-59fc84d8e757675ea9c5110f700e09bc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two leading candidates<\/a><\/strong> vying for office are women \u2013 Claudia Sheinbaum, the former Mexico City mayor, and X\u00f3chitl G\u00e1lvez, an opposition senator and tech entrepreneur who represents a coalition of several Mexican political parties. Sheinbaum holds a double-digit polling lead that\u2019s remained steady for months and the election is just days away.<\/p>\n<p>Observers are pitching the election as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/huge-change-mexico-expected-elect-054107339.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>sea-change for Mexico<\/strong><\/a>. The two leading candidates would be the first woman elected as Mexico\u2019s president. However, hope for real change in the misguided and corrupt policies that President L\u00f3pez Obrador embraced have little chance.<\/p>\n<h4>Corruption and Violence<\/h4>\n<p>Mexico is headed for more of the same corruption, crime and pursuit of baseless lawsuits against U.S. firearm manufacturers. That\u2019s largely because President L\u00f3pez Obrador has <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2024\/01\/02\/mexico-elections-president-amlo-morena-sheinbaum-galvez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ceded over half of the country<\/strong><\/a> to cartel control. The Economist\u2019s Intelligence Unit <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2024\/01\/02\/mexico-elections-president-amlo-morena-sheinbaum-galvez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">downgraded<\/a><\/strong> Mexico from a \u201cflawed democracy\u201d to a \u201chybrid regime.\u201d El Pa\u00eds, a Spanish-language international news outlet, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/international\/2024-03-08\/public-safety-is-emerging-as-a-key-campaign-issue-in-the-battle-between-the-ruling-party-and-the-opposition-in-mexico.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted<\/a><\/strong> that 53 percent of Mexican voters consider insecurity to be Mexico\u2019s biggest problem. That was followed by corruption, ranked at 32 percent. Over 113,000 Mexicans are estimated to have \u201cdisappeared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President L\u00f3pez Obrador is a head-of-state only because he\u2019s working <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/articles\/mexican-presidents-arrogance-grows-along-with-u-s-courts-leniency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>hand-in-glove with the narco-terrorist drug cartels<\/strong><\/a> that are the scourge of Mexico. He refuses to confront those cartels, which are facilitating illegal drug and firearm trafficking. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency uncovered <strong>\u201c<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/articles\/biden-admin-open-border-funding-illegal-firearm-trafficking-that-mexico-is-suing-over\/?hilite=mexico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>substantial evidence\u201d<\/strong><\/a> that drug cartels funneled $2 million to his campaign and that it was impossible to divorce government officials from criminal cartels.<\/p>\n<p>G\u00e1lvez has been an outspoken critic of President L\u00f3pez Obrador\u2019s \u201chugs, not bullets\u201d policy. She wants to build a state-of-the-art mega-prison, much like the one El Salvador\u2019s President Nayib Bukele built in his country and filled with over 70,000 in a state of emergency. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/international\/2024-03-08\/public-safety-is-emerging-as-a-key-campaign-issue-in-the-battle-between-the-ruling-party-and-the-opposition-in-mexico.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Critics allege<\/a><\/strong> many of those inmates are innocent.<\/p>\n<p>G\u00e1lvez <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/1155a0c5-c87d-4914-ba25-1d6fe48a8c8a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">would also end<\/a> <\/strong>President L\u00f3pez Obrador\u2019s policy of Mexico\u2019s National Guard and Army limiting patrols to avoid confrontations with narco-terrorist cartels\u2019 mercenary units. However, she\u2019s also <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/international\/2024-03-08\/public-safety-is-emerging-as-a-key-campaign-issue-in-the-battle-between-the-ruling-party-and-the-opposition-in-mexico.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">avoiding<\/a><\/strong> a return of former President Felipe Calder\u00f3n\u2019s \u201cWar on Drugs\u201d that brought open gunfire between police, military and cartels.<\/p>\n<p>Sheinbaum, on the other hand, is expected to continue President L\u00f3pez Obrador\u2019s \u201chugs, not bullets\u201d policy. Sheinbaum is a low-key prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of President L\u00f3pez Obrador and a member of his Morena party founded by the current president. Sheinbaum studied at the University of California at Berkeley and her parents, \u201cwere committed leftists, with a copy of Karl Marx\u2019s \u2018Das Kapital\u2019 hidden in the closet. Her mother, a biology professor, lost her job for participating in the 1968 student-led demonstrations against the one-party system that ruled Mexico for decades,\u201d The Washington Post <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/ar-BB1n7AKP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/strong> She served as President L\u00f3pez Obrador\u2019s environmental secretary. She supports President L\u00f3pez Obrador\u2019s constitutional amendment proposal to elect Mexico\u2019s Supreme Court judges by popular vote. That\u2019s the same Supreme Court that has stymied President L\u00f3pez Obrador.<\/p>\n<h4>Mum on Mexico\u2019s Lawsuit<\/h4>\n<p>Neither Shienbaum nor G\u00e1lvez has spoken publicly of Mexico\u2019s $10 billion lawsuit against U.S.-based firearm manufacturers. Sheinbaum, though, would largely be a rubber stamp on the lawfare effort by Mexico to abuse U.S. courts to influence gun control in America and erode Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn several speeches, Sheinbaum has underlined the continuity between herself and L\u00f3pez Obrador on key issues in the US-Mexico relationship, including migration, arms and drug trafficking, and border security,\u201d The Nation <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/world\/claudia-sheinbaum-mexico-city-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NSSF filed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.nssf.org\/e\/127421\/SF-cert-stage-amicus-brief-pdf\/51dssj\/1092970662\/h\/AXc7Ei9SuBCkCQAl5YCicRXZorBOuegf3P6dNPQkWv0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>amicus brief<\/strong><\/a> with the U.S. Supreme Court in<em> Smith &amp; Wesson Brands, Inc. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos<\/em>, the $10 billion lawsuit brought by the Mexican government seeking to assign blame for the criminal violence brought by narco-terrorist cartels in Mexico. The brief argues that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit erred in reviving the case that was initially dismissed by a lower federal court for violating the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA). NSSF wrote the First Circuit\u2019s decision \u201c\u2026 blows a gaping hole in the PLCAA and rolls out the red carpet for a foreign government intent on vitiating the Second Amendment.\u201d The amicus later adds that the First Circuit\u2019s decision was incorrect because it is \u201c\u2026 emblematic of a recent trend of anti-gun governments (and courts) mendaciously skirting the PLCAA and using the resulting threat of bankruptcy-inducing tort liability to destroy a lawful industry that is vital to the exercise of a fundamental constitutional right. This Court\u2019s intervention is imperative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-seven state attorneys general, led by Montana\u2019s AG Austin Knudsen, <a href=\"https:\/\/lnks.gd\/l\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDEsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vY29udGVudC5nb3ZkZWxpdmVyeS5jb20vYXR0YWNobWVudHMvTVRBRy8yMDI0LzA1LzIyL2ZpbGVfYXR0YWNobWVudHMvMjg4NTY5Mi8yMy0xMTQxJTIwU21pdGhfV2Vzc29uJTIwdiUyME1leGljbyUyMC0lMjBNVCUyMGNlcnQtc3RhZ2UlMjBhbWljdXMucGRmIiwiYnVsbGV0aW5faWQiOiIyMDI0MDUyMi45NTE2ODU2MSJ9.RkaNYHYmPY09zje4S1jzpNyzJLdjH3wwttFMBOLHUg0\/s\/1527442806\/br\/242874267936-l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>filed their own brief<\/strong><\/a> with the Supreme Court, urging the court to correct the decision to revive the claim by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerican firearms manufacturers should not and do not have to answer for the actions of criminals, as established by the commonsense federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. Mexico\u2019s bad policies created the country\u2019s gun violence problem,\u201d AG Knudsen said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/dojmt.gov\/attorney-general-knudsen-defends-american-firearms-manufacturers-from-being-held-liable-for-mexicos-gun-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>press release<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong> \u201cRather than take responsibility, Mexico and anti-gun activists are trying to blame and bankrupt American companies that follow the law. The appeals court erred in their decision and the Supreme Court needs to correct it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mexico\u2019s elections are certain to change who occupies the presidential palace but hope for change falls short of Mexico\u2019s insistence on scapegoating their own failures and cartel corruption on U.S. firearm manufacturers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/same-ol-same-ole-mexicos-presidential-election-likely-to-change-nothing-south-of-the-border\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador may be out, but don&#8217;t expect the country&#8217;s polices to change. (AP Photo\/Fernando Llano, File) Next Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6 Mexico\u2019s voters will head to the polls today to choose who will succeed Mexican President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador. 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