Mexico goes into Sunday’s election deeply divided: friends and relatives no longer talk politics for fear of worsening unbridgeable divides. Drug cartels have divided the country into a patchwork quilt of warring fiefdoms. The atmosphere is literally heating up, amid a wave of unusual heat, drought, pollution and political violence.
Mexican presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum held her final rally late on Wednesday in Mexico City’s vast, colonial-era central square. Presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum gestures during her closing campaign rally at the Zocalo in Mexico City, Wednesday, May 29, 2024. Mexico ’s general election is set for June 2. Presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum gestures during her closing campaign rally at the Zocalo in Mexico City, Wednesday, May 29, 2024.
López Obrador himself likes to depict every issue as a struggle between the forces of the “good people” and shadowy conservative conspiracies, and he has done a lot to stoke the flames of division and anger. “In this country, what’s being built isn’t a sense of citizenship, but rather of voter bases,” said Gloria Alcocer, the director of the civic-minded magazine Voz y Voto, roughly “Voice and Vote.” López Obrador is prohibited by law from running for reelection to another six-year term.
The implicit message for many Mexicans during market-oriented governments over the decades was that they were somehow wrong for not learning more English, working in manual labor and not in the tech economy, receiving government subsidies and living in a traditional, family-dominated culture. Sunday’s elections — which will also decide congressional seats and thousands of local posts — are different from those of the past in other ways.
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