because thats the bogus line that whitexican libs love

I’ll tell my campesino and indigenous friends and their orgs they’re whitexican because they have complaints about the Mexican gvmnt, specifically about the way their land is handled, and how they’re being abandoned unless there is something to extract from there in the name of ‘progress’. I am not Mexican, and haven’t lived there in years, so i’m missing a lot of reality on the ground, particularly what you mention, but dismissing those concerns as “whitexican” shit is really reductive and erases the reality of some of the most vulnerable and vocal people in Mexico who have spent decades demanding their rights be upheld.

The lack of local accountability seems to be endemic to most local politics throughout latam though. Parties and party lines stop existing at the municipal and regional level, and local power brokers change parties like they change socks, only to allow for the graft to keep going. It seems that many leftist parties/governments struggle with maintaining discipline at the micro level, because they focus so much on national and parliamentary politics.