Trump Unhinged: Goes After Mexico at UN

<p>In episode 125 of Soberanía, hosts José Luis Granados Ceja and Kurt Hackbarth open with Trump&#39;s speech at the UN General Assembly, where he called Mexico &quot;the epicenter of cartel violence,&quot; threatened to &quot;annihilate&quot; Iran, and declared Cuba a failed state. They highlight President Sheinbaum&#39;s sharp response: &quot;It&#39;s also difficult to live next to a country with high drug consumption and arms production.&quot; They also discuss the Special Rapporteur&#39;s report condemning the U.S. boat bombings as extrajudicial executions, and the growing push to invoke the Rio Treaty to militarize the hemisphere through the so-called &quot;Shield of the Americas.&quot;Next, they examine the controversy over Morena&#39;s candidate selection process for the 2027 gubernatorial elections. With no primaries, the party uses opinion polling — which inherently favors those with high name recognition and disadvantages emerging candidates. The result: several candidates with ties to the old PRI, PRD, or PAN, raising questions about their commitment to the Fourth Transformation. The hosts debate the challenges of every option — primaries are costly and traumatized by the PRD experience, assemblies can be stacked with &quot;acarreados,&quot; and polls reward incumbents — concluding that while it&#39;s a difficult dilemma, Morena&#39;s new leadership under Adriana Montiel faces a credibility test.The episode also covers the U.S. Embassy&#39;s disastrous attempt to attack China on Mexico&#39;s Independence Day, tweeting that Mexican patriotic symbols are &quot;made in China.&quot; China&#39;s response was sharp and dignified: &quot;A nation&#39;s Independence Day belongs to its people.&quot; A poll showed 58% of Mexicans see the U.S. as a threat, compared to 27% who see China as one.Losers and Haters takes aim at historian Enrique Krauze, who shared a video of Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco at an LGBTQ+ event at the UN and called it &quot;the lowest point in Mexican diplomacy in 200 years&quot; — a comment the hosts condemn as homophobic and historically illiterate, noting far worse examples from Mexico&#39;s diplomatic past.</p>