[November 18, 2025] Gen Z protests in Mexico have broken out, presumably, in response to government corruption and the drug cartels. I think it’s fair to state that the Federal government of Mexico has always been corrupt to its core; the epitome of failed leadership. The rise of drug cartels have fueled this corruption to a point that it’s difficult to see the difference in the government and cartels.
The spark appears to be the public killing of an anti-crime mayor earlier this month. In Mexico City, hooded protestors tore down fences around the National Palace where Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum lives. These protests are real and violent. The government response has been to use strong-arm tactics on those involved.
“Mexico City’s public safety secretary Pablo Vazquez said in a press conference that 100 police officers were injured, including 40 who required hospital treatment. Another 20 civilians were also injured, Vazquez told local media outlet Milenio.” — Reutgers
It would be easy to overlook what happens in Mexico, rarely does it matter to the U.S. And this would be a mistake. For a couple of reasons, we should pay attention. First, the Gen Z protests seem to be a Western phenomenon all by themselves. How this plays out will determine where it goes in the future. Where Mexico goes, other Western nations may follow. See the Gen Z Protest Wikipedia page.
Second, Mexico has always had a veneer of democracy, and perhaps more accurately, a narco-tyrannical state. If only the Mexicans could rid themselves of the government corruption, the country is poised to do great things in partnership with America. But, this partnership is unlikely to come about due to the long-simmering hatred of America by Mexican citizens. The country has a long way to go to adapt to modern standards of governance.
There is something positive that comes with the “protestors.” At least they can see and “feel the pain” of corruption in their institutions of government, education, policing, and medicine. In fact, as the protestors know, the corruption is so deep that it will be several generations before it is excised from their culture.
Mexico looks forward and sees a dim future. Will they continue with bad governance or accept help from America and do the hard work required to hunt down and eliminate the terrorists who have formed these drug cartels?
Let’s help the Mexican people; for they deserve something much better than the leadership failure they are currently living with.
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A number of opinion writers are saying that Mexico is doomed. What will it be?
Never be surprised by what happens in Mexico. They may not be the top-of-the-line fighters but they substitute brutality for finesse.
Agreed. 💯. And they may be Christian Catholic (mostly anyway) but they also look at the Bible as a literal document or they reject Biblical teachings all together. The latter are the really scary ones who will torture and behead anybody taht gets in their way. So, the cartels can be dealt with in only one way…. totally destroyed from the cartel members to their homes to their drugs.
I saw this comment somewhere else and thought I’d quote it here: “Those millions of Mexican men who’ve abandoned their country should be improving Mexico. Those disenfranchised working class/middle class men and women in their numbers in Mexico can actually defeat their corrupt political class and criminal cartel class through revolutionary means. A revolution that embraces the US Constitution-Declaration type change would change Mexico’s politics and economic conditions. Criminal cartels are a murderous corrupting force and their defeat may entail the extreme prejudice the cartels employ to intimidate their silent secret partners in the Mexican government. The cartels ignore laws that outlaw firearms and their corrupt government ignores enforcing them. Illegitimately staying in power by the force of firearms that the common citizen cannot resist. The rest of Mexico, the millions upon millions of them, could use a 2nd Amendment yesterday. I wonder if Mexicans themselves(in the US and Mexico) think of this and yearn for the opportunity to bring it about.”
The BBC reports. The rally was organized by Gen Z youth groups, drawing support from citizens protesting against high-profile killings, including the assassination just weeks ago of Uruapan Mayor Carlos Manzo – who had called for tough action against cartels. Cartels? What cartels? I was told that cartels were not an urgent problem.
Even the corrupt BBC occasionally gets the story right.
Don’t travel to Mexico. You take your life in your own hands if you do.
Wow, a possible fall of the Mexican government ? They have been so corrupt for so long, I doubt their government will fail. Let’s be clear, when there is this level of corruption, and it is at all levels, then the people have a vested interest in it too. That is how they get ahead of their neighbors. Just pay off the right officials and you get what you want cheaper and faster and with more fanfare. Don’t play the corruption game, and you will be left behind and much poorer. That is why government and failed leadership continues. That is why it was so shocking that corruption has infiltrated Ameridcan politics so deeply and why there was so much pushback by Democrats at all levels. Their way of business was a money pot for them, and they didn’t care at all about ripping off the average taxpayer like you and me.
More transparency is needed. I think this is why Gen Z has decided to rebel against the old way of business. 👀 “We are watching you,” is their motto.
Crazy Man, very interesting comment about a possible new motto of Gen Z. “We are watching you.” HA. Good one. The issues, is whether they have the smarts and ability.
It seems in this modern day that our governments have not adapted to having more transparency in how they operate. We have found mass corruption in America too, as when we discovered that USAID was receiving mass amounts of taxpayer money and kicking it back to politicians in our Democrat Party. Shame on all who knew this and failed to properly address the problem.