[Peace-discuss] Another U.S. Regime Change Operation Is Taking Shape In Mexico

[David Johnson]

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Another U.S. Regime Change Operation Is Taking Shape In Mexico

By Staff,
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-in-mexico> Rainershea.com 

December 7, 2019 

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When it comes to Mexico, one can at this point easily spot the signs of a
brewing U.S. regime change operation. Since Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel
López Obrador was elected last year, he’s been thoroughly vilified by the
U.S. media. After Brazil’s fascist president Jair Bolsonaro was elected, the
Financial Times’ John Paul Rathbone even
<https://www.salon.com/2018/12/24/mainstream-pundits-mexicos-lopez-obrador-i
s-a-bigger-threat-than-brazils-bolsonaro/> argued that Obrador is a greater
threat to liberal democracy than Bolsonaro. Such views of Obrador have come
from claims that he’s an authoritarian, or “too strong” as the Washington
Post recently
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/amlo-is-mexicos-strongest
-president-in-decades-some-say-hes-too-strong/2019/11/28/9ee6e6d0-1071-11ea-
924c-b34d09bbc948_story.html> put it.

>From the perspective of the global capitalist class, Obrador is indeed a
much bigger threat than Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro’s agenda of neoliberal
hyper-capitalism made plutocrats around the world
<https://truthout.org/articles/worlds-capitalists-celebrate-win-of-brazilian
-fascist-jair-bolsonaro/> celebrate his election, while the presence of the
anti-neoliberal Obrador has
<https://www.ft.com/content/8e1a0d40-ee36-11e8-89c8-d36339d835c0> rattled
markets. In March, Obrador
<https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/AMLO-Ends-Neoliberalism-Ushers-In-Post-
Neoliberal-Plan-20190318-0004.html> declared that “The neoliberal model and
its economic policy of pillage and handouts are abolished” in Mexico,
starting on a 2019-through-2024 plan to undo the country’s privatization and
redistribute wealth. Since Obrador has given Asylum to Evo Morales and
<https://news.yahoo.com/evo-morales-victim-coup-detat-says-amlo-220157390.ht
ml> said that Morales is the victim of a coup, the U.S. has gained further
interest in advancing regime change in Mexico.

As the international implications of the Bolivia coup have developed, it’s
become more clear how the U.S. aims to destabilize and take over Mexico.
Last week, Trump
<https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/27/politics/donald-trump-mexican-cartels-terror
ist-organizations/index.html> declared that he’s going to classify Mexico’s
cartels as terrorist groups, opening the possibility for military
intervention in Mexico. This has gone along with the Mexican right’s recent
efforts to attack Obrador for a recent botched raid on the Sinaloa Cartel, a
cry of outrage which the U.S. media has amplified through headlines
<https://www.wsj.com/articles/mexico-loses-its-sovereignty-to-cartels-115734
11956> like “Mexico loses its sovereignty to cartels.” The fact that the
right-wing President Felipe Calderón was the one who
<https://jacobinmag.com/2019/11/amlo-sinaloa-cartel-el-chapo-ovidio-guzman-c
uliacan> helped create the rise of the Sinaloa Cartel has been omitted from
the prevailing narrative about this incident.

Washington seeks to revamp Mexico’s destructive war on drugs so that it can
exploit these ruptures in Obrador’s control over the country. Trump and
<https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article237463
004.html> some Democrats are willing to send in troops to make this happen,
raising the possibility of yet another U.S. war against Mexico.

If Washington gets its way, Obrador will be replaced with a U.S.-backed
neoliberal president as soon as possible, perhaps through a military coup.
The victory of Washington’s plans for Mexico depend on the popular
acceptance of the narrative that Obrador is an aspiring dictator who must be
removed; to advance this narrative, the U.S. media has
<https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/andres-oppenheime
r/article214729310.html> compared Obrador to Turkey’s
<https://www.timesofisrael.com/israelis-europeans-take-to-streets-to-protest
-turkish-assault-on-kurds/> genocidal far-right president Recep Erdogan,
creating the perception that Obrador is part of the worldwide trend of
anti-democratic populist leaders.

But Obrador’s populism isn’t reactionary or authoritarian like the phony
right-wing “populism” of Trump, Erdogan, and Bolsonaro. He’s won his great
support by delivering upon his promises for
<https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/amlo-seeks-470-billion-pesos-for-anti-pove
rty-spending/> lifting people out of poverty, and by
<https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/AMLO-Announces-New-Institute-For-Indige
nous-People-20180816-0011.html> helping advance the gains of Mexico’s
indigenous communities. Far from being the strongman that the U.S. media
makes him out to be, he’s much more pro-democracy than his reactionary
predecessors, and within mainstream Mexican politics he’s uniquely in favor
of the rights of poor and working people.

Obrador only seeks to reform capitalism, and he’s
<https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/08/amlo-j08.html> increased
migrant deportations and carried out self-described “austerity budgets.” But
in terms of the issue of imperialism-which is the issue that American
socialists should prioritize the most when they’re deciding whether or not
to support foreign leaders-Obrador is not on the side of the U.S. empire. He
therefore deserves to be supported, and to be defended when necessary.

This is the gist of how anti-imperialists should view Mexico right now; it’s
a predictable situation of the U.S. characterizing a disfavored leader as a
tyrant so that it can get them out of power. What’s unusual about this
regime change project is the global geopolitical dynamic that surrounds it.
The U.S. is rapidly losing its global influence, an imperial decline that
correlates with the slow-motion collapse of neoliberal capitalism and the
intensification of class conflict worldwide. The American bourgeoisie is in
danger of losing their power and resources, so they’re in the process of
clamping down on the assets they can more solidly control.

This U.S. imperial clampdown is taking place primarily throughout the
Pan-American hemisphere. Washington is consolidating and attempting to
expand its hold over Latin America. This has become apparent as the U.S. has
<https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-cia-has-its-fingerprints-on-brazils-e
lection/> meddled in Brazil’s election last year in order to get Bolsonaro
elected; as the U.S. has escalated its efforts to overthrow Venezuela’s
Chavista government, as well as the Sandinista government in Nicaragua; as
the U.S. has overthrown Bolivia’s government; as Washington has
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/12/prevent-latin-america-protests-riots
-191202185624946.html> begun to try to suppress the protests against
U.S.-backed neoliberal regimes throughout Latin America; and of course as
the campaign against Obrador has intensified. 

We’re
<https://thegrayzone.com/2019/11/27/operation-condor-2-coup-trump-nicaragua-
mexico/amp/?__twitter_impression=true> seeing a repeat of Operation Condor,
the Cold War campaign from the U.S. to carry out violence throughout Latin
America and redraw the region’s political map. Trump’s decline to rule out
drone strikes in Mexico in response to the “terrorist” cartels shows how
much this new effort may escalate in the coming years.

Washington’s ultimate goal is to establish fascism throughout the entire
Pan-American Hemisphere. If the imperialists won’t be able to regain
domination over the globe, they’ll try to suppress the re-emergence of
socialist and anti-colonial movements in both Americas through brute force.
We must make them fail.

 

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