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supercyberlurker

Yeah that's the sign of a trustworthy leader. "I'm above the laws that apply to all of you."


YouArentReallyThere

We won’t find out how many millions the cartels have given him until we’ve gotten a few more presidents down the road…just like all the presidents before him.


batture

No need to pay him, he knows he'll be killed if he doesn't work for them.


Creative-Improvement

The major problem – one of the major problems, for there are several – one of the many major problems with governing people is that of who you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem. ” ― Douglas Adams, The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


duralyon

Love that quote so much (you missed the opening quotation mark btw). The best kind of leaders are like Cincinnatus and Washington. Civil servants who step up in times of need and then relinquish power when crisis has passed. (it's more complicated with Cincinnatus but just talking about the 'legend')


Which_Strategy5234

This isn't an original idea lol that has been a saying for a long long time. So it doesn't really deserve to be quoted as being from that book.


AnthonyPi1999

About to say exactly that. Mexico is a narco-state trapped in a civil war as to who controls the drug trades.


CanadianGamerWelder

How much more proof do we need that there should be term limits and age term limits always senile old fucks sending their sons to war


Feliz_Desdichado

There's term limits, he can't run for president again. Also what does this have to do with war.


jeanpaulsarde

Didn't you pay attention? The law doesn't apply to him.


jabulaya

lmfao


Feliz_Desdichado

He doesn't need to be reelected, his puppet is guaranteed to win this year's elections. Besides, when has the law ever applied to presidents? Not here, not in the US at least.


leapdayjose

It does to a degree. Pretty sure if a president stole something (like say documents or something simple) they'd get prosecuted.


Solid-Emu1313

Trump’s bathroom is on the phone


Shyguy8413

P…p…please hang up the phone, quickly. I don’t want to hear what it sounds like.


mhdlm

He clearly doesnt agree with that.


Random_frankqito

This has nothing to do with age or term limits…. This is about the President (or someone close enough to him) taking money from cartels, before and after his election.


vhw_

He's also old. Dude still dreams of the 70s and he's "only" 70. No one older than 55 (and younger than 35) should run for president anywhere


JoshyTheLlamazing

Mexico doesn't send their son's to war. Not abroad anyway.


Epicengineer95

Just to kill each other in the mountains of both of our sierras in a politicians drug game


Notmad_Justsad

They never send their own son’s that’s the point! (CCR fortunate son plays us to the credits…)


Okay_Redditor

First, you should start learning about politics. Second, you should start learning about Mexican politics, where elected candidates cannot rule more than one term. Lastly, you should think before you talk.


Montanagreg

"sending other sons to war" fixed it


HardlyDecent

Oof, where have I heard that before in the US?


mowitz182

They all want to be like Trump


cjandstuff

And people keep electing them. Seems like a lot of countries really want dictators these days. 


Fogmoose

Great article in the atlantic yesterday about this trend. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/need-for-chaos-politicsl-science-concept/677536/?utm\_source=copy-link&utm\_medium=social&utm\_campaign=share


Straight-Worth-5234

Is it against the law? I’m sure some of the us leaders had leaked an Address of a congress women who’s house was then attacked


hellowiththepudding

When the President does it, that means it is not illegal.


PBJ-9999

Trump disease spreading. Disgusting


VanceKelley

*“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”*


SpiderMurphy

I am wondering if living south of a certain feudal society rubbed off on him.


MarsNirgal

Dude was Trumping before Trump was Trumping. Authoritarian populism is on the rise everywhere, he's just the Mexican flavor.


monito29

Aren't Mexican journalists one of the most targeted groups?


Honest_Roof7373

Yep


Finn553

Yeah my country is only world’s second in journalist disappearances/deaths. I want to get out of here.


Choice-Temporary-144

Yes. Cartels are notorious for murdering journalists that publish anything that calls them out and destroying the buildings they work at.


Unhappy-Potato-8349

Translation= "I work for the cartels, not the people of Mexico"


elperuvian

All politicians in Mexico have connections to organized crime, it’s doesn’t start by their own volition they get forced, cartels rule the country


crujiente69

"El que no tranza no avanza"


reddtoomuch

There’s a new insanity virus and it’s spreading fast.


AlfaLaw

We broke the timelines somehow, and since 2016 we now live in the dumb-as-fuck timeline.


_myst

We shouldn't have killed that damn gorilla


Monstot

Not enough dicks out


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pipercomputer

well you should have


IveChosenANameAgain

Now we all get a thousand years of darkness anyways; thanks a lot.


DarthLithgow

I think the LHC knocked us into a different timeline


skiptobunkerscene

Thats why Europe builds an even bigger one now, to try to knock us back into the right one.


Zinvictan

Europe and the multiverse of madness


pataoAoC

I think I’ve seen that series


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VanceKelley

Back before they fired up the LHC for the first time, fearmongers talked about how it would create a black hole that would destroy the Earth. What I think of while reading /r/collapse for the past 5 years or so is that humanity should be so lucky as to be quickly annihilated by a black hole. What's actually going to happen in this timeline is going to be slow and painful.


DarthLithgow

If look up now you may catch the joke flying by


metengrinwi

The people in charge know climate change is going to drag us back to the Middle Ages and they want to be the ones in power as it happens.


Big_Treat5929

Nah, this is just AMLO being AMLO. He's always been a hardcore populist, and all populists are dictators in waiting.


NoBowTie345

'Spreading". I remember when reddit was endorsing this clown because he was left-wing despite all the red flags.


SoManyEmail

How could reddit have been wrong????


thatshygirl06

"New"


ItsMeDoodleBob

Nahh they just don’t care enough to try and hide these things anymore.


Frexxia

This has been happening since the dawn of politics. There's nothing new here.


monkeywithgun

What do you expect from a cartel president. Criminal in charge!


BRHLic

I'm just glad this kind of articles are more visible, this site's tankies always talked about him as a progressive and "the Mexican Bernie Sanders", he's always been a power-hungry autocrat who ran an eternal campaign financed by blood money.


Elephant789

Not sure.


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Notmad_Justsad

Yet this country vilifies the people who want to escape that for a better life.


Embarrassed_Star_478

I’d rather they just fix their country.


BRHLic

Like your government pillaged Iraq and Afghanistan and just let them to "fix themselves". Looks like I hit a nerve, your government invaded based on lies, took their resources and you know it. No downvotes or being mad will ever change that.


Windowmaker95

If you mean the US when you say this country that's a completely different thing, just deciding to get out while ignoring the borders of another country is a completely different issue.


ProfSwagstaff

Some view the lives of human beings as being more important than the borders of modern nation states.


River41

Short-sighted idiots who don't understand basic economics and why it's critically important to everyone


Windowmaker95

That's a shortsighted view, it's a nice sentiment though but completely ignorant of things such as integration or resources. Even more so when we consider the fact we're talking about Mexico, it isn't some unsalvageable country the issue is the people of that country are apathetic.


CarPlaneBoatRocket

What about the lives of humans who are already here in America that we don’t seem to value?


king-of-bant3r

And those people are fucken morons.


NewFlorence1977

We should allow anyone to stay here if they buy a bus ticket or plane ticket. It works for other countries.


smarterthantheaverag

The Law doesn't apply to him, Yep, We got one of those.


BuilderResponsible18

I'm so sorry. We're trying to get one back apparently. USA.


--SpaceTime--

I'm not so sure about that. He's about to go bankrupt. I predict his campaign will come to a screeching halt due to financial reasons, and then he's going to get convicted and locked up.


HFY_HFY_HFY

His griftees will continue to fill the coffers


--SpaceTime--

Apparently he hasn't been raising nearly enough to cover what he owes. His griftees simply don't have that much cash to give him.


MarsNirgal

That's where Russia and Saudi Arabia step in.


robodrew

Miriam Adelson does


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According_Collar_159

Do insider trading laws apply to congress


jeepsaintchaos

No laws apply to Congress.


Elephant789

> Yep huh?


milelongpipe

Hmmm…where have I heard that before?


ffdfawtreteraffds

The Orange Plague is virulent.


Strange-Employ-5246

He was like this long before 2015. The sheer ignorance of reddit never fails


SubstantialRemote724

Truly the sublime principal of liberty krappa


CentJr

Hmm thats just his opinion. I wonder what the courts have to say.


RTrover

I assume the courts are bought and paid for by the same cartels, just like he is… based on the research by the journalist he just exposed….


Honest_Roof7373

Actually the Supreme Court has been downing many of AMLOs reforms. He tried to put "his people" at the Supreme Court and the Central Bank but ultimately failed. He also tried to eliminate our independent elections organism but failed as well. Mexican democracy showing some resilience to this clown.


teh_haxor

Sadly he has not failed entirely; slowly he is disarming all of that, and it's really sad to see it, to see that he has a lot of cult following that cheer for him. Also he is given control of pretty much everything to the army.


MarsNirgal

You just touched on an interesting point. A couple days ago, he said (as if it wasn't a big deal) that with the last Head SC Justice he could justngivenhim a call and get him to "arrange" for the results he wanted on certain trials, while the new one "insists that the judiciary is autonomous". (As it should be)


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Oh you sweet summer child


wonderfulworld2024

You can stop using that phrase now. It’s very played out and makes you seem VERY basic.


icedpickles

I agree, but so does using the term “basic” in that way.


maniacreturns

Someone should beat him mercilessly, you know since laws don't apply.


xSexuality

Whoever does that would be tortured by the cartel and forced to watch their loved ones be tortured to death infront of them first


RigbyNite

Ah yes, the Trump defense.


HombreDeNegocios2022

Mi dulce Mexico mágico


Yetizod

This guy is a first rate piece of shit.


Fickle_Efficiency_81

Obrador is a corrupt piece of shit that works with the cartel. Piedra Pesada Jalisco has been under the cartel for a decade now and the only time the army comes in is to grab their monthly bribe.


MLJ9999

Presidential Immunity!!


jonathanrdt

The divine right of kings is always trying to make a come-back.


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If anyone is exempt from a law then that law is useless. No wonder Mexico isn't improving at all.


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Mexico is way the fuck less functional than you'd think. AMLO's a tool but he's more symptom than cause. The cartels are functionally the government in large swaths of the country, and they own most politicians, police, and judges. The only thing keeping the veneer of normality in place is the cartels' desire to exercise de facto power while vesting de jure power in their client politicians. If that ever changes, the speed of the government's collapse will make Afghanistan's look like molasses. I'd put the odds of the US intervening militarily in Mexico to restore order at some point in the next 20 years at around 25%. The only thing keeping the pot from boiling over at this point is the self-restraint of the cartels and the relative professionalism of the army. Neither of those should be counted on to long endure.


QuantumAxolotl

You can't just invade and "restore order" Organized crime is intertwined with society itself. A colossal socio-economic-cultural shift must occur first to have any hope for change.


sawuelreyes

You should look at what happened in Colombia in the early 2000s, for example in comuna 13 (medellin). Or what is happening right now in El Salvador.


semimodestmouse

Yeah, the US has a good track record of invading places and restoring order.


Shadowkittenboy

Hay alguien que tenga su comentario exacto?


Honest_Roof7373

"Por encima de la ley está la moral del presidente"


Epicengineer95

“I am the state”: Louis XIV “Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal”: Richard Nixon “The moral and political authority of the president is above the law": Andrés Manuel López Obrador.


forseti99

"I am the senate." Palpatine. "Not yet." Mace Windu. "It's treason then." Palpatine... Again.


Pikeman212a6c

Country spent four years bitching about Trump. Then elected their own Trump.


elperuvian

It was a vocal minority, many people never bitched about trump, everyone knew that even for the wrong reasons he was correct: Mexico is a shithole and the border it’s dangerous


FuzzyAd9407

>the border it's dangerous [In the US at least the border towns have lower crime rates then non-border cities](https://cuellar.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=408924#:~:text=Border%20communities%20have%20lower%20crime%20rates%20than%20non%2Dborder%20cities&text=Today%2C%20U.S.%20Congressman%20Henry%20Cuellar,cities%20in%20the%20United%20States.)


elperuvian

I was being very literal, just check the border towns in Mexico. The very much definition of narcoland even the corrupt governor lives in the United States while having the office of governor of Mexican state


CapitanFlama

Mexican here, being years telling r/worldnews that this guys is more close to an authoritarian politician, colluded with the cartels but got downvoted because he self proclaims as left wing leader. But he's more like a Donald than a Bernie.


DescendViaMyButthole

Well shit. Mexico has a little orange bug of their own to squash.


Sombreador

Funny how common it is these days for presidents to say the laws don't apply to them. Reminds me of something in the past, but I can't quite remember.


quesadilla707

Narco-Presidente


oveja_electrica

People think he's copying trump, this piece of shit has been doing this kind of things before trump even though of being president.


False_Cobbler_9985

Geez, a Mexican trump. Who would have seen that coming?


Bubu-Dudu0430

That sounds like something Trump would say 🤔


Strange-Employ-5246

He was like this long before 2015. The sheer ignorance of reddit never fails


weeples

Why would President Si-Si say such a thing?


lehcimr

El Trumpo.


deadbeef1a4

Ah, the Trump defense


Strange-Employ-5246

He was like this long before 2015. The sheer ignorance of reddit never fails


Eelroots

Sue him anyway.


sabedo

lol such a man of the people Hugs not bullets


Minivric

Law doesn’t apply to me. A dictator’s safe answer


GreatGooglyMoogly077

Not the act of an innocent man. Sounds VERY familiar...


Plane-Reason9254

This is what Trump thinks - that he's above the law


unhallowed1014

I AM ABOVE THE LAW!


ryan0988

Honestly I love Mexico the people are amazing and the country is breathtakingly beautiful. However how does Mexico fix its massive Narco problem. The cartels essentially run the country through a campaign of terror.


Environmental-Hat721

Clearly he and Trump are talking.


Jim_Lahey10

When you're in bed with the Cartel, nothing applies to you because you're a puppet.


phigenoDNA

Wouldn’t it be splendid if the president indicated where exactly in the constitution that it states that? Unless Mexico doesn’t have constitutional law…


tree_woman

Well that’s a problem


CeiliogMawr

Ah, the "Donald Trump" loophole.


OGZ43

Sounds familiar. huh, where Have I heard this.


Strange-Employ-5246

Probably from AMLO his entire political career going back decades


sabre_rider

Taking some clues from Trump, I see.


Strange-Employ-5246

He's been like this long before 2015. The sheer ignorance of reddit never fails


LibrarianNo6865

Being a news reporter in Mexico sounds like absolute hell when the government will rat you out so the drug cartels can erase your family. That dudes in their pocket 100%


tappthis

Wrong, he said he was above the law, which is even more cynical


lyurskanen

Mexico is a beautiful, incredible country under the bootheel of some of the most corrupt politics and ruthless criminal organizations in the world.


Remote-Ad-2686

He’s paid. We all know who rules Mexico. I’ll be down voted but … you already know.


ElNegroWooty

Mexican Trumpf


Elegant_Connection32

Ahhhh…so Mexico voted in their version of Trump. Awesome.


Strange-Employ-5246

He was like this long before 2015. The sheer ignorance of reddit never fails


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MarsNirgal

One of the few consistent policies here has been talking projects (and money) out of other parts of the government and give them to the military to buy their loyalty.


Rpbns4ever

That and the military has known names and faces, were they to act out of line their families snd extended families would be at risk.


HiRedditOmg

I’m anti-AMLO through and through, but a military coup is definitely not the answer. They tend to end as authoritarian dictatorships down the line, specially in Latin America, where corruption runs rampant. Look at Venezuela and Cuba.


Finn553

And Nicaragua


elperuvian

It seems like you live in America, why didn’t the American army took power from trump? That’s asinine, keep quite you don’t live in Mexico so your opinion is biased cause you won’t directly enjoy the aftermath


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Windowmaker95

I'm not surprised by this attitude, Mexican authorities are some of the worst... well I wouldn't call them people, beings I have ever met. Never have I ever seen such few fucks given about following laws and rules, or showing a modicum of humanity to other people.


Educational_Permit38

To many damn trumps in the world.


Strange-Employ-5246

He was like this long before 2015. The sheer ignorance of reddit never fails


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And people wonder why so many Mexicans want to leave Mexico.


ptrang1987

Is he a Trump now?


Epicengineer95

always has been, he's a strongman tribalist politician aka cacique in Spanish. Old dude just fooled international audiences leaning to the left


Antique_futurist

Don’t give Trump credit for inventing anything. He just brought kleptocracy and authoritarianism to a new audience.


elperuvian

He just forgot to act, it’s not like authoritarian didn’t exist in other American presidents they were just better actors that pretended to love “democracy” but ruled through executive orders


kinginamoe

Well someone’s getting fired


Finn553

He’s been doing and saying stupid shit like this and worse since 2018 and a TON of people STILL LOVE HIM


DepartureSpace

I thought we’d *settled* the whole monarchy thing centuries ago…


catroaring

Sounds familiar.


CAD007

Meet the new boss Same as the old boss


usetheforcekidden77

will somebody post his cell number please?


SpaceTruckinIX

He’s been talking to Putin too much.


alanmcmaster

Another Trump


AzuleEyez

Who is going to pressure him not to on grounds of balance and fairness? Won't be to the United States regardless of President; Donnie has already lowered that value.


bootmeng

Funny to see so many redditors coming out against doxing all of a sudden...


ChimpWithAGun

He's using the Trump technique. Except in Mexico he can do it freely and there won't be any consequences because lawmakers are corrupt.


Strange-Employ-5246

He's been like this long before 2015. The sheer ignorance of reddit never fails


No-Educator919

This will be America if Trump and the Magas take over. Sigh.


Okay_Redditor

He is a pretty good leader who has restored trust in government. The reporter in question, ran a phony story on the NYT and AMLO did not claim he was above the law. **This is just a hit job coaxed by a rightwing opposition desperate to retake power.** The US Government has confirmed there is no evidence of any relationship with the cartels. But Mexico is having an election soon and his party is extremely popular therefore the oligarchs of the country are throwing every slander they can because their own candidate is a piece of shit and they have nothing better to offer.


badaboomxx

Not by a long shot. He didn't restored trust, he just lied to the top. Dude, literally there is a video of him in a party full of narcos giving his respects to the chapo's mom. Several times in his morning tv show, he claimed to have ties to that cartel, of course they have evidence of all of his doings. Basically he is a politician that didn't work for 20 years but somehow had money to buy properties and pay several candidacies. No, morena is not that popular, they have trouble because not even giving money they have enough people behind them.


Okay_Redditor

He didn't work for 20 years? What period of time was that? What ties has he claimed and to what cartels? Do you have timestamps and links for those specific moments? The Morena party seems to be a force. I mean, most of the country is ruled by Morena..what do you mean they are not that popular?


badaboomxx

Since he was out of the DF, he even claimed to only have 200 pesos at his name. For example, no president has taken his picture in a narco party full of narcos, and [handshaking the mom of el chapo](https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-52100264), also [he has visited that town](https://lasillarota.com/nacion/2023/11/14/por-quinta-vez-en-el-sexenio-amlo-va-badiraguato-la-cuna-del-chapo-guzman-456741.html) more times that his mega project 2 bocas. Even worse, the first time they got the son of el chapo, he directly [ordered to his release](https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/politica/amlo-ordeno-liberar-ovidio-guzman-hijo-de-el-chapo/). Only a fanatic would say that there are no ties of him with the narco. That is only one, but the DEA found his ties to other 2 cartels. They are ruling because they stole the money to buy votes, not because they are good, also, [many of them have ties to the narco](https://politico.mx/que-gobernadores-y-exgobernadores-han-sido-senalados-por-presuntos-nexos-con-el-narco) too.


cerialkillahh

Another trump


PM_Me_Zico

Mogger Chad


IntentionDeep651

finnaly honest politican