President Claudia Sheinbaum signed the constitutional reform limiting eligibility for the presidency, governorships and the Mexico City mayor’s office to people with only Mexican nationality starting in 2028.

Those who hold a second nationality and want to run for these offices will have to renounce it before applying to register as candidates. The provision seeks to ensure that people holding these responsibilities maintain only their legal bond of Mexican nationality while in office.

  • wheezy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I think some leftist have a misunderstanding of the use of nationalism within states outside of the imperial core. The IRA was a nationalist movement. Nationalism means something different when you’re colonized. It means something different when the fascist are your neighbors, bombing civilian ships in the waters to your south, and interfering with elections everywhere they can. If Cuba or Iran felt that had to do something similar I think we’d all understand. Let’s not confuse things because we don’t understand the meaning of the word “nationalism” and try to apply it universally to mean “bad”. That’s not material analysis. That’s idealism.

    • TheUnicornOfPerfidy@feddit.ukEnglish
      41·
      5 days ago

      I think Americans often have a very bad understanding of the IRA and The Troubles, but your point stands. Though I still think all forms of nationalism are bad, they exist on very different terms and are orders of magnitude worse for colonisers.

      • glimse@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 days ago

        We weren’t really taught about it when I was in school in the 2000s. I didn’t know the details until a few years ago when I got really into an Irish band, Bricknasty. One of their songs included a eulogy for Ross McDonnel, an Irish documentary filmmaker, and I fell down a rabbit hole.

        We weren’t taught about African politics because “they’re always at war” (a racist oversimplification, of course) but I was surprised that they skipped over a predominantly white country’s war…until I realized it’s a story about an “underclass” uprising. Can’t be teaching kids that the oppressed can organize.

      • ghost_laptop@lemmy.ml
        2·
        5 days ago

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkbSYIyzmF0

        watch this video, it will help you understand why the position you’re taking is a reactionary right wing one. essentially the left is both internationalist and nationalist, it’s internationalism supports the nationalism and sovereignty of other nations, while the right is simply nationalist and it doesn’t support the nationalism of other people.