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.

  • @PugJesusEnglish
    107•7 months 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!

    • Flying Squid
      46•7 months ago

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

      • @Hugin
        3•7 months ago

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

        • Flying Squid
          5•7 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.

      • @PugJesusEnglish
        15•7 months ago

        Why feel bad for her? It’s a problem of her own making, and a solution of her own choice.

      • @assassin_aragorn
        3•7 months ago

        Nah Galveston is Carcinogen Coast.

        Houston is “want to drive to X? 30 minutes”. No matter how close it is.