The day after Mexico’s leftwing ruling party Morena won a landslide victory in presidential, congressional and state elections, one executive stayed in bed all afternoon eating ice cream to try to cope. A wealthy woman in Mexico City told friends it was time to “move to the house in Houston”, while another business leader said his WhatsApp chats were marked by a mood of “collective suicide”.

President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum and Morena’s victory last Sunday was not a surprise, but the scale of their triumph was. Sheinbaum vaulted 31 points clear of her nearest challenger, centre-right entrepreneur Xóchitl Gálvez, and Morena is now poised to push through radical changes to the constitution after greatly increasing its majority in congress.

  • chellewalker@lemmy.caEnglish
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    22 days ago

    After a crushing electoral defeat in 2018, one senior opposition politician told the Financial Times how he had spent the night in a “humble home” to learn what it was like, proudly showing pictures he had taken on his mobile phone.

    “After I returned to Mexico City, it struck me that perhaps my maid lived in a similar sort of home, so I showed her the photos and sure enough it turned out that her home was very similar,” he beamed.

    This… this is probably the single most out-of-touch thing I’d ever rich. A rich dude took pictures of a normal house, and then bragged to his maid that he went there.

  • ericatty@lemmy.ml
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    21 days ago

    As I was reading, I had to check that this wasn’t The Onion writers, the tone is so spot on.

    Is this from a satire site I don’t know about?

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
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    21 days ago

    One meme posted in a 35,000-strong Facebook group supporting Gálvez vowed to stop tipping waiters, donating to victims of natural disasters or giving money to people who help park your car because “they voted for Morena, so Morena should support them now”.

    And they wonder why…

    In recent years, many Mexicans have said they try to avoid talking politics with friends, family, and colleagues for fear of pro- and anti-Morena advocates labelling the other side snobbish or resentful.

    Let’s hope our country is similar, and the votes follow suit.

  • vividspecter@lemm.ee
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    22 days ago

    Just before Sunday’s vote, opposition leaders posted a photo of an all-male line up of their number in suits and white shirts making victory signs in the exclusive members-only Industrialists Club in Mexico City’s elite Polanco neighbourhood.

    Industrialists Club? It’s like they are a satire of themselves.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 days ago

    The day after Mexico’s leftwing ruling party Morena won a landslide victory in presidential, congressional and state elections, one executive stayed in bed all afternoon eating ice cream to try to cope. A wealthy woman in Mexico City told friends it was time to “move to the house in Houston”, while another business leader said his WhatsApp chats were marked by a mood of “collective suicide”.

    😂

    Sounds like good news to me!

    • Noble Shift@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      Lololololololol. Yeah honey move to Houston and see what life is like. Better off moving to Miami. Both are insufferable shit holes, but at least you can swim at the beach in Miami, not like the Carcinogen Coast. Bonus points for living in a state with a functional electrical grid.

    • fartington@lemm.ee
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      22 days ago

      I feel so bad for the woman in Mexico City. Not only does she have to move, but move to entirely separate country.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      She’s going to learn really quick that being Latino and rich doesn’t protect you from being Latino in America.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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          21 days ago

          Far less if you’re rich and a POC though. Unless you’re like OJ rich.

          And on top of that, Mexico rich isn’t exactly America rich most of the time.