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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.

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[–] PugJesus 107 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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!

[–] FlyingSquid 46 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Hugin 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Being rich does get you a lot of protection in america.

[–] FlyingSquid 5 points 4 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago
[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke 26 points 4 months ago

When the elites are scared, the people win

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months 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?

[–] goldenlocks 20 points 4 months ago

Incredible win for Mexico, viva Morena!!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months 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.

[–] Etterra 16 points 4 months ago

I wish our elite suffered this much. #eattherich

[–] werefreeatlast 14 points 4 months ago

That's great news!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Any chance of a nonpaywall link? Thanks!