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.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1081·
    5 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@lemmy.world
      493·
      5 months ago

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

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          5·
          5 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.

    • Noble Shift@lemmy.world
      242·
      5 months ago

      Lololololololol. Yeah honey move to Houston and see what life is like. Better off moving to Miami. Both are insufferable shit holes, but at least you can swim at the beach in Miami, not like the Carcinogen Coast. Bonus points for living in a state with a functional electrical grid.