Non-Vassal Elite Competence Exhibit 1: Claudia Sheinbaum
Roger Boyd
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Sheinbaum acepting official nomination for her party, Morena.
There is a saying that soft times produce soft leaders and that hard times produce strong leaders. In the West, the soft times for the oligarchs from the 1980s onwards have produced many incompetent leaders as I am detailing in my series on them. In this series of articles I detail how the hard times have produced very strong leaders in nations outside the West. The first example is Claudia Sheinbaum, the President of Mexico.
She was born in 1962 to Sephardic Jewish biologist and chemical engineering parents, who raised her in a secular household. Sheinbaum has undergraduate and graduate degrees in physics and a PhD in energy engineering. From 1995 to 2000 she was a researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She had been active in politics since her student days and was a member of the student group that founded the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). In 2000 she became the Secretary of the Environment of Mexico City, within the city administration of Lopez Obrador, a position she held until 2006. After which she returned to UNAM, and was a contributing author on the UN IPCC Fourth Assessment Report mitigation section (2007), and a lead author of the same section in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (2013). She has also authored over 100 scientific journal articles and two books.
The kind of first woman president that many Americans would be happy with, but someone they will never be allowed to have an accurate representation of by the US oligarchic state and media organs. Especially when US corporations see her as a threat who is focused on the welfare of the Mexican citizenry rather than corporate welfare. Her party also now governs 24 of the 32 Mexican states, and has a two thirds majority in both houses of the senate, putting her in a significantly stronger position than her predecessor Obrador.
This article from The American Conservative is much more open about why the US oligarchy hates Sheinbaum and will do anything to take her down.
I hate to break the news to my bullish Texas friends reading this, but Claudia Sheinbaum spent three years at the California Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory completing a PhD thesis in energy engineering. Her speech reflected an appreciation for market-oriented renewable investment, but contained a pledge to cap fossil fuel consumption at a daily 1.8 million barrels …
Her environmental proposals, coupled with judicial reform and broadly left-wing rhetoric …
Sheinbaum plans to continue AMLO’s failed "hugs not bullets" approach to narco-terrorism …
Sheinbaum’s only substantive mention of migration was her reference to the “heroes and heroines” living in the United States, sending “help” back to communities in Mexico
AMLO (Obrador) was hemmed in by the vassal Mexican oligarchy, but through his own colossal popularity, reforms and the democratization of the judiciary, has provided a base from which Sheinbaum can truly start to challenge that vassal oligarchy. That she will embrace the need for action on climate change and environmental destruction (as against the Democratic cos-playing in this area), implement the judicial reform, continue to oppose the utterly failed US anti-drug policies (designed at least as much to discipline the masses as actually reduce the drug trade), and also refuse to be beholden to US domestic considerations, is anathema to the US oligarchy. For the record, when AMLO came to power in 2018 the Mexican murder rate was 29 per 100,000, dropped to 25 in 2022, and fell again in 2023 by 6.7%. With the majority of the illegal weapons in Mexico smuggled in from the US, sometimes even aided by the US state, a focus on stopping this trade rather than the drugs trade may better help reduce the Mexican murder rate.
One hopes that she has support within the military, as once she takes out the courts as a vassalized institution, the US oligarchs may attempt to use their standby option of a military coup. In these days when the US oligarchs are openly supporting an ongoing genocide, I put nothing past them - especially in a nation so vital to US oligarchic core interests.
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