Imagine a nation where people are required “to apologize daily during one month” on X for thought crimes; where your name can be entered “in a public registry of people that are aggressive against women” for insisting upon the biological reality of sex; and where the state is implementing digital ID along with “facial recognition systems” and “a new law for regulation of social media.”
That is not a dystopian movie. It is modern-day Mexico. “Mexico is no longer a democracyii,” said former Congressman Gabriel Quadri. “It is, in fact, a dictatorship in which gender ideology and political violence against women laws are being used to curtail and to repress freedom of speech.”
Mexico remains a formal democracy with freedom of the press, and independent election authorities declared the last presidential elections free and fair.
But since then, President Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist turned politician, has taken aggressive action to take control of elections and the judiciary, with the help of her Left-wing party, Morena.
“The [Sheinbaum] government has total control of the National Electoral Authority,” said Quadri. “It has total control of the judiciary. One month ago, the Mexican judiciary was totally dismantled, was destroyed, and substituted by a system of supposedly democratically elected judges.”
The government came after Quadri when he insisted that biological sex was real and unchangeable.
“I was prosecuted by the electoral authorities,” he said. “They obliged me to erase all my tweets, to publicize my repentance… and they would like me to take a course of indoctrination about gender ideology… I had to apologize during one month daily in Twitter…. They put my name in this public registry of people that are aggressive against women.”
Mexico requires that half of every party’s members of Congress be women, and Quadri objected to the Morena Party counting male politicians who identify as women, “transwomen,” toward the party’s quota.
