It's been getting a leetle spicey in Mexico City for the past couple of days, and I'm not talking about the chiles.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum - ardent champion of the Biden 'remain in the United States' illegal immigration policy, who has been working to make sure as many of her illegally occupying citizens stay in the Estados Unidos as possible so as not to impede those precious remittance pesos they send home twice a month - suddenly has a pissed off peasant problem of her own to deal with.
Now, there are some rumors that Sheinbaum is beholden to cartel help for her office, and they've certainly been busy offing obstructive Mexican officials with little interference from her government since she became president.
An assassination list totaling 21 successful hits, according to Wiki, so far.
She bloviated as best she could against an incoming Trump administration determined to ultimately destroy the cartels and their poison product through any means necessary.
Trump backed off his threat to use military intervention in Mexico itself, but that doesn't mean he won't eventually.
Reporter: "Would you launch strikes on the cartels in Mexico to stop drugs?"
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 17, 2025
Trump: "It's ok with me!" pic.twitter.com/hoNs3FgIO9
In the meantime, between boats in Venezuela, Coast Guard interdictions offshore in the Gulf of America, and good old-fashioned detective work on land, the administration has the heat on big-time.
The FBI & our partners have shut down a major meth trafficking operation in North Georgia, seizing over 3,200 kilograms of methamphetamine hidden in boxes of jalapeños from Mexico. Twelve defendants now face federal charges as part of Operation Take Back America.
— FBI Atlanta (@FBIAtlanta) November 17, 2025
This successful… pic.twitter.com/ttEpce8w8X
...This successful operation highlights the power of law enforcement collaboration in dismantling dangerous drug networks and protecting our communities.
'Hidden in jalapeños' has kind of a ring to it, doesn't it?
All this makes cartels cranky and nervous, especially since they don't have that schweet, schweet, human trafficking cash coming in from the border anymore. Oh, the living was so easy during the Biden years, dagnabbit.
In the meantime, Mexicans slog along in their daily lives, terrified of the unrestrained, brutal violence that can hit anywhere at any time and claim more lives.
They look to heroes who will stand up against corruption and the cartels, and there are so few stalwarts left.
There is one less now.
Carlos Manza, the mayor of Uruapan in Michoacán, Mexico's 'avocado capital,' had been a constant thorn in Sheinbaum's side.
He was assassinated at a Day of the Dead celebration on a Saturday night.
An outspoken mayor in western Mexico who had repeatedly called for a harder line against organized crime was shot and killed on Saturday night while attending a Day of the Dead celebration.
Carlos Manzo, the mayor of Uruapan, had become a thorn in the side of cartels in Michoacán State, where violence among rival criminal groups and with state and federal security forces has exploded.
He often denounced criminal groups for extorting the avocado and lime producers in his city, an economic engine in Michoacán, even vowing to take lethal action against local cartels.
Mr. Manzo was also an uncomfortable figure for Mexico’s federal government. He had criticized President Claudia Sheinbaum’s strategy to curb cartel violence as a failure and demanded more power to fight back.
...“We need greater determination from the president of Mexico,” he told a radio interviewer in September, adding that despite receiving threats he would not take “a single step back.”
He then reflected on his own safety. “I do not want to be just another mayor on the list of those who have been executed and had their lives taken away from them,” he said. “I am very afraid, but I must face it with courage.”
Sheinbaum immediately made all the right noises, promising 'justice' for the nationally beloved and now martyred Manza.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum promised on Sunday there would be justice for the brazen murder of a local mayor, Carlos Manzo, an outspoken critic of organized crime who had called on the government to do more to protect him and others.
...Sheinbaum called an emergency meeting of her security cabinet on Sunday morning, later condemning Manzo's "vile" assassination in a statement on X.
"We reaffirm our commitment to deploy all the State's efforts to achieve peace and security with zero impunity and full justice," Sheinbaum wrote.A march was called for Sunday in Michoacan's capital, Morelia, to demand justice for Manzo's death and an end to violence and corruption.
But then she reverted to form. There would be no changes in her security policies, the president declared.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Monday ruled out changes to security policies after the assassination of a mayor in the violent state of Michoacan again raised questions about her administration's actions to confront criminal groups that control vast parts of the country.
In response to the shock generated by the lethal attack against Uruapan Mayor Carlos Alberto Manzo Rodríguez, Sheinbaum defended her policies, saying she has reduced homicides and accused her adversaries of acting like vultures and scavengers following the mayor's assassination.
Cartels need love, too.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum just said fighting a war against drug cartels is unlawful because it would violate the rights of drug traffickers and it would be "fascist."
— George (@BehizyTweets) November 6, 2025
"Returning to the war against the narco is not an option. First, because it is outside the framework… pic.twitter.com/yxv5q83HwF
..."Returning to the war against the narco is not an option. First, because it is outside the framework of the law."
"I said or have said on several occasions, it is permission to kill without any trial."
She must be drinking from the same cup as Kamala Harris because what the heck is she saying?
That was the last straw for the hundreds of thousands who know they most assuredly are not working and have a good idea who their president is working for.
Gen Z is rising up in Mexico
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) November 16, 2025
because they are the first generation to have access to enough information
to know that their entire government works for the cartels. pic.twitter.com/jDscey70FU
Tens of thousands of Mexicans, most of them young, began gathering outside the presidential palace in Mexico City on the 15th.
“¡Narco presidenta!” chants this morning here in Mexico City pic.twitter.com/f9rRWEgrOI
— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) November 15, 2025
And all hell started to break loose.
Whats happening in Mexico City right now is glorious. You have federal police who work for cartels protecting the President who protects cartels from the citizens who absolutely hate cartels. pic.twitter.com/XXXv9H9JZf
— Jay Mac 🇺🇸 (@Jay_Mac_AF) November 15, 2025
The police and security forces had erected a second wall around the palace to protect against the possible onslaught of outraged protestors.
...linked to the cartel-linked murder of Uruapan mayor #CarlosManzo, the 7th mayor killed since year 2021. Thousands of protesters stormed the Presidential Palace in the Zócalo on Saturday, Nov 15, breaching security barricades and clashing with riot police which used tear gas. pic.twitter.com/k2osD57rG9
— Nanana365 (@nanana365media) November 16, 2025
My brother Marine, Julio Rosas, was up close and personal that first day. The protestors tore down sections of the wall, and the police began firing crowd control munitions.
🚨🚨: Anti-Sheinbaum crowd TEARS down one section of the security wall protecting the National Palace.
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) November 15, 2025
Both sides are throwing chucks of concrete at each other. pic.twitter.com/tgRrOkmTua
There were plenty of police injured.
At least 120 people, mostly police officers, were injured as thousands marched through Mexico City to protest against the government of the president, Claudia Sheinbaum.
The demonstration on Saturday was organised by gen Z activists, but ended with strong backing from older supporters of opposition parties.
And maintaining the security of the palace became a very close thing.
🚨| ÚLTIMA HORA: Impresionantes imágenes de manifestantes derribando y arrastrando las vallas frente a Palacio Nacional, en la CDMX, durante la marcha de la #GeneraciónZ. 🇲🇽 Los mexicanos no se doblegan ante la comunista Claudia Sheinbaum. pic.twitter.com/2YdsDV9JBh
— Eduardo Menoni (@eduardomenoni) November 15, 2025
Sheinbaum is very lucky that everyone went home instead of hanging around for a couple more rounds of 'Siege the Castle.'
I really don't see what she can do except become a victim herself, but that's what happens when you make a deal with the devils.
I mean, the woman can't even protect herself - she was publicly groped in the street a week ago.
...A video of the incident on Tuesday shows a visibly drunk man trying to kiss the president on the neck and embrace her from behind, as she removes his hands and turns to face him, before a government official steps in and places himself between them.
As the man is steered away, Sheinbaum can be seen smiling stiffly and saying: “Don’t worry.”
And that guy wasn't even trying to cop anything but a quick squeeze.
I think she knows if the cartels want her, she's done for, inside or outside of those not-so-impressive palace walls.
But now, everyone knows where she lives, and she's running short of friends.
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