i donât post much about politics here but thereâs a small trend on twitter about how âthe Mexican president is so handsome, in your face Tr*mpâ
and Iâm just like⊠yâall can please stop that right now, your ignorance is showing and not a single Mexican person who knows whatâs up will feel flattered about your appreciation for the president.
Peña Nieto is as much of a disgustingly ignorant, incompetent corrupt piece of conservative scum as Tr*mp is. When asked about three books that had influenced him he was unable to mention any apart from the Bible (he quoted another book but got the author wrong). Heâs an illiterate imbecile whoâs been caught embarrassing himself multiple times by things such as not knowing the name of the city where heâs giving a speech, forgetting the name of the anti-corruption organism or not knowing what the minimum wage is. His stupidity is so notorious there are multiple compilations in Youtube of his fuck-ups. Itâs also been uncovered that about one third of his graduation thesis was plagiarized. Alarmingly, he doesnât even know why his previous wife died.
His coming into power is as questionable as can be. He had the obvious support of the major national TV networks, and there were massive, well-documented instances of electoral fraud, from manipulation of the electoral institute to downright buying votes.
Heâs literally a puppet controlled by the old guard of PRI politicians, who used his âhandsomeâ face and his sensationalistic marriage to a telenovela actress as a main selling point during his campaign (on which they dillapidated money like it was a sport, his governmentâs expenses on publicity are off the charts) so they could take over the country and continue filling their pockets at the expense of the Mexican people. Theyâve cut down funding on public health, science and education to increase their own salaries every year. Theyâve allowed foreign corporations to plunder our natural resources (including a very lucrative reopening of the oil extraction market that just recently passed) in exchange of quick and lofty paychecks. When a member of his cabinet is exposed for corruption or incompetence, he just shuffles them around, always making sure his close friends stay in positions of power.
Peña Nietoâs wife, AngĂ©lica Rivera, was found to own a property now labeled as the Casa Blanca (White House), valued in 7 million dollars at the time, with no explanation of where the money to buy it came from. The house was suspiciously connected to a construction company that had just received a billionaire concession to work on building train tracks over the country, a deal that conveniently went under when the house scandal was uncovered. No one involved was accused of any crime and no investigation was ever held, while Carmen Aristegui and her team of journalists, who uncovered the mess, were quickly fired and their radio show was taken off the air.
Peña Nieto is also personally responsible for the massacre of the people of Atenco back in 2006 when he was governor of the Estado de MĂ©xico, unleashing federal police brutality on a farmerâs town to strip them of their lands to build a new airport. No one was held accountable for the serious violations of human rights that took place there. General crime in that state has been on the rise since he was governor, notably, halfway through his term, it had become #1 nationwide in feminicide. Like Atenco there have been countless such incidents of brutal opression of which Peña Nieto is responsible, directly or indirectly, all of which have gone unpunished (just last year Tlatlaya and NochixtlĂĄn, off the top of my head).Â
Remember how everyone complained about the possibility of queerbaiting in Yuri on Ice? Well, in 2016, Peña Nieto promised to pass a Marriage Equality bill nationwide (that would furthere cement the Supreme Courtâs ruling on the matter in 2015). This announcement came conveniently close to multiple governor elections as well as an unusual election for a new Constitution for Mexico City. Right after the election passed, the proposal was scrapped. Howâs that for queerbaiting?
So no, American friends, youâre not being cool or âalliesâ by complimenting Peña Nietoâs âgood looksâ (and if you saw him under all the photoshop, youâd know those so-called good looks are nothing but production). Peña Nietoâs government is in a severe crisis due to the catastrophic tanking of the Mexican peso in the past year which âforcedâ the political class to increase gas prices by over 25% to preserve their own privileges. He has the lowest approval rate of any president in Mexican History (12% last I checked?). Trumpâs defiance is giving him a platform to improve his image and portray himself as a national hero, which he isnât.Â
Remember how yâall been saying #NotMyPresident for the past few months? Well, thatâs been us for the last four years. So donât support Peña Nieto. Support Mexico, support latino immigrants, support our culture and our people, not our government. Because if thereâs one person thatâs as dedicated to the ruin of our country and our people for their personal gain as Donalt Tr*mp is, that is definitely Enrique Peña Nieto and the putrid corruption that he represents.
