Who loves the cartels?
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- Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has indeed erected an armored wall outside the National Palace in anticipation of a large protest scheduled for November 13, 2025, as reported by various sources including AF Post on X.
- The protest is against her continued protection and support of drug cartels and her lack of action regarding the numerous assassinations of local politicians across Mexico, with up to sixty politicians assassinated during the pre-campaign and campaign periods in Mexico during the 2024 elections.
- Sheinbaum's strategy to battle organized crime, unveiled in October 2024, rejects a renewed "war" against drug traffickers, instead focusing on initiatives like scholarships and job training, a continuation of her predecessor Andrés Manuel López Obrador's "hugs not bullets" approach.
- The killing of Carlos Manzo, the mayor of Uruapan in Michoacan state, in early November 2025, has intensified pressure on Sheinbaum to step up her fight against cartels, with protesters setting fire to public buildings in response.
- Sheinbaum has distanced herself from López Obrador's approach since taking office a year ago, with Mexico extraditing 55 senior cartel leaders and making record hauls of fentanyl under her watch.
The Cartels OWN her.
It seems so. She doesn't want to be assassinated. I can't really blame her.
Cartel assassinations of government officials, primarily in Mexico's drug war, have escalated dramatically since 2006, targeting mayors, candidates, and police to seize local control, extort resources, and intimidate rivals.
2007–2012 saw hundreds of such killings, as cartels shifted from bribery to lethal intimidation during municipal elections.
From 2018 to mid-2024, cartels carried out 1,709 attacks including murders and threats against politicians and officials.
The 2024 elections were the deadliest on record, with at least 37 candidates murdered.
In 2025 alone, through the first half of the year, 112 political assassinations occurred, including six mayors, with over 300 police officers slain in the first 10 months.
If you want to learn more, this, although fictional, is realistic as fuck:
ZeroZeroZero is an intense 2020 miniseries (8 episodes) based on Roberto Saviano's book, chronicling the high-stakes global journey of a massive cocaine shipment from Mexico to Europe. It interweaves three interconnected storylines: in Mexico, a corrupt elite soldier (Manuel Contreras) protects cartel suppliers amid brutal turf wars; in Italy, an aging 'Ndrangheta mafia don (Don Minù La Piana) emerges from hiding to orchestrate a lucrative deal, sparking betrayal within his family; and in the U.S., a bipolar shipping heiress (Emma Lynwood) and her unstable brother (Chris) risk their family's crumbling business by smuggling the drugs across the Atlantic. The narrative unfolds non-linearly, blending raw violence, psychological tension, and moral decay as greed, loyalty, and survival collide across continents.
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But but but CBP and ICE = BAD.
This seems like an odd way to behave if she is worried about assassination. She is allowing the public to get very close to her. Even close enough to cop a cheap feel.
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She's playing ball. As long as she does . . . But she fears the people. They know.