How the Media in México helps with staged marches against AMLO

Angel Daily
4 min readJun 28, 2020

In an exclusive live video shot by independent journalist Rata Política, it shows a Televisa cameramen helping stage scenes of Mexico’s rich people protesting AMLO.

In the video, a line of luxury cars can be seen taking over one of the three lines available causing a trafic jam. That’s when the Televisa cameraman, wearing a t-shirt with the television logo, shows up and begins directing and recording video between the protest lane and the other two lanes, giving the impression that ALL cars in all lines shown in the scene are the protesters.

https://twitter.com/RataroTio/status/1276923435898322944?s=09

Mexicans call it “the rich people march.” They usually protest agaist the progressive government of AMLO because his government is now charging them taxes. Taxes they used no to pay. Futhermore AMLO is stopping corrupt projects, and government looting practices.

Yahoo News called the protests against AMLO bordering on the ridiculous for what they showed the world (and are not only their luxury cars).

“[For the protesters] to falsely label López Obrador as a "Communist", "Socialist" and even pro-abortion, not only shows ignorance about what has happened in the country in the last two years. It also makes them look ridiculous and borderline embarrasing.” Yahoo News

Mexico is the 3rd country with most billionaires after Japan and the United States. The 9% owns the weath of 60% of Mexicos buttom half.

President Lopez Obradorn(AMLO) is a centrist demócrat for Latin American countries, and center-left in the U.S. This is due to dacades of neoliberal politics that moved the Overton window to the right in the U.S , hence centrist politicians like Obama are now called left in the states. This is a poignant distinction that often scapes corporate media when describing AMLO, which in term feed the disinformation that is later used as propaganda by these protests.

A group of white Mexicans, or whitexicans as some describe them, come out to the streets with BMWs, Mercedes-Benz, Lexus, and expensive SUVs with signs calling President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) racist names, calling him a dictator, or asking him to resign.

AMLO had said during his press conference that these protesters are free to express themselves, and that’s what democracy is all about. He also said that he understands their dissatisfaction, but the majority of people voted for a change: to end governmental corruption, because “corruption is the principal reason of inequality and the social decomposition in the country.”

AMLO also highlights that ending corruption is not only a moral imperative, but practical economics since billions of pesos were stolen or looted from the government’s treasury by previous far-right administrations — recentry acused of colluding with drug organized crime.

Two of the most recent scandals were former President Calderon’s national security secretary, Garcia Luna, who was recently attested by the FBI in Taxas for colliding with the Sinaloa Cartel, and a second scandal was this year’s arrest of President Peña Nieto’s confidant and former director of the state owned company PEMEX, Emilio Lizoya arrested by the police in Spain for corruption and racketeering while working at PEMEX.

RATA POLITICA ALWAYS COVERS THE RICH PEOPLE’S MARCHES.

It’s always funny to watch live videos of these matches because it shows the reality of how, while Televisa and American corporate media reports that ALL Mexico is protesting, behind the scenes it’s completely different. These protests are mostly 99% organized by the PRI and PAN.

Staged photo

FUN FACT: before the coronavirus, Mexico’s rich people would force their darker-skin workers to come to the streets to march. Rata Politica has intevewed some of these fake protesters and they said they were told not to speak or they will lose their jobs. Other protesters have been paid to show up.

In this recent video, you can witness a Televisa cameraman instructing protestors in their cars how to stage scenes, while simultaneously the majority of citizens passing by call them "fucking ridiculous." "go to work." "they made us poorer, " and “que chingen a su madre.”

https://twitter.com/RataroTio/status/1276923435898322944?s=09

https://twitter.com/RataroTio/status/1276934834808643584?s=09

It’s important to note that white Mexicans in Mexico are mostly descendents of Spanish or Europeans and are only 9% of the population, AMLO’s approval rating range from 72% to 80%.

See full video of the March in Cuernavaca

See full video of protesters arriving in Mexico City with way less cars than those present at begging of the caravan in Cuernavaca, where Televisa TV cameramen was filming.

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