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•6 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•6 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•6 months ago

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

        • Flying Squid
          5•6 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•6 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•6 months ago

        Nah Galveston is Carcinogen Coast.

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

  • @[email protected]English
    85•6 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•6 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.

  • ericatty
    21•6 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•6 months ago

    Incredible win for Mexico, viva Morena!!

  • fmstrat
    16•6 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•6 months ago

    I wish our elite suffered this much. #eattherich