Gen Z psy op movement fails to take down ultra popular Mexican government
After successfully overthrowing Nepal’s pro-China government and destabilising governments across Asia, the Gen Z movement, led on social media from Washington, recently targeted the progressive Mexican government led by Claudia Sheinbaum. Since her election in 2024, the Mexican president has enjoyed an unprecedented popularity rating of 70%. She has taken up the torch from Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), president from 2018 to 2024, who was also extremely popular for his pro-worker and anti-poverty policies.
“According to the most recent statistics 13.4 million Mexicans were lifted out of poverty during the term of her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), while the Gini coefficient, measuring income inequality, has decreased from 0.426 to 0.391” (Kurt Hackbarth, ‘Mexican President Sheinbaum’s triumphant Year One’, The Jacobin, 1 October 2025).
And considerable progress has already been made by Sheinbaum herself in her first year as president.
“Her first year has seen the passage of key laws and constitutional reforms, including a judicial reform providing for the direct election of the federal judiciary; recognition of greater autonomy for indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples; a ‘Mexican ERA’ for women’s rights; strengthened public control over the energy sector; statutory approval for the public provision of internet, over 2,000 miles of train tracks (including two long-distance lines to the US border), and 1.8 million housing units; a first-in-the-world app law providing benefits for rideshare drivers; and a ban on the planting of GMO corn, though the nation is still forced to import it from the United States following a loss at a USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement) dispute settlement panel.
“Macroeconomic numbers are solid, despite perennially looming tariff threats that Sheinbaum has manoeuvred Donald Trump into postponing three separate times. In some areas, she is building on initiatives begun under AMLO, such as maintaining annual minimum wage raises, continuing the groundbreaking daily press conferences known as the mañaneras, lowering the public-pension age for women down to sixty, extending stay-in-school scholarships to all grades, and establishing public “well-being stores” to sell staple goods procured from small producers.
“In other areas, she is striking out on her own, including an in-home health outreach programme for seniors; development projects for a satellite, semiconductors, and an electric mini-vehicle; and the creation of a cabinet-level Department of Women’s Affairs and Department of Science, Humanities, Technology, and Innovation. All of this together, crucially, with a 25 percent drop in Mexico’s murder rate. In this light, it is not surprising that she has maintained a consistent approval rating at or around 80 percent, placing her among the highest-ranked leaders in the world” (ibid.).
Those deeds are enough to put her on the list of governments to topple by Washington. Stuck in an unwinnable war in Ukraine, gradually losing its economic dominance to China – which, with its Belt and Road Initiative, has attracted developing countries by offering them an alternative form of fair and equitable trade – and having lost its international prestige owing to its unconditional support of the genocidal state of Israel, the United States is now forced to refocus on its own backyard and try to block the spread of Chinese influence by any means necessary. Hence the resurgence of colour revolutions, one of its favourite weapons that avoids the cost and the risk of military intervention.
What happened?
“On November 15 in Mexico City, thousands of demonstrators (estimates vary on how many participated) took to the streets to protest against the government of President Claudia Sheinbaum. Participants also said that they were protesting against the president’s handling of the problem of insecurity in Mexico. They demanded that the government take a tougher stance against organized crime following the assassination of Uruapan Mayor Carlos Monzo.
“The day of protests led to clashes between demonstrators and police. According to official reports, at least 100 police officers were injured, as well as 20 protesters. The protesters removed the fence protecting the National Palace, to which the police responded by firing tear gas and arresting 20 of the protesters, accusing them of theft and assault” (Pablo Meriguet, ‘Gen-Z protests in Mexico or coordinated chaos?’, People’s Dispatch, 18 November 2025).
The protesters took to the street on November 15, but way before that connivence between foreign actors and paid local agents was visible on social media, and evidence that the entire ‘anti corruption’ uprising was artificially created has come out since. Miguel Elorza reported in Infomedia on 13 November 2025 that “According to the analysis presented during the President’s daily press conference, a digital network of coordinated accounts, promoted by politicians, pundits, and even former presidents of Mexico, is behind the mobilization.” “Infodemia’s tracking identifies October 3 as the starting point. On that day, Azteca Noticias published a report linking Mexican youth protests to a supposed global movement. Simultaneously, influencer Carlos Bello, who until then had not addressed political issues, participated in a forum at the Chamber of Deputies where he openly criticized the Mexican government.
“On October 21, the mayor of Cuauhtémoc, Alessandra Rojo de la Vega, invited Bello to her podcast, where they both dedicated a significant portion of the program to criticizing the federal government. That same day, the account @somosgeneracionxmx held a live broadcast promoting the November 15 march, a message amplified by users affiliated with the PAN party, such as Kike Mireles and Armando Saucedo .
“According to Infodemia, 179 TikTok accounts and 359 Facebook communities synchronously promoted the call to action.
“At least 50 of the TikTok accounts were created between October and November 2025, and 28 Facebook pages active since October 26 have foreign administrators.
“Elorza explained that, between October 16 and 26, these same accounts were spreading messages demanding the recall of the president; however, on November 1, after the murder of Carlos Manzo, they simultaneously changed their message: now they claimed that the march would be in memory of Manzo.”
The same modus operandi was seen in the protests that toppled Nepalese Prime minister KP Sharma Ali on September 9, the protests having erupted after the government banned 26 media platforms (including Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and WhatsApp) after those platforms failed to comply with the National Cyber Security Policy law passed in August 2023. The law was an attempt to limit foreign internet traffic into the country and promote local e-commerce platforms, social networks and other online resources. “The legislation required foreign social media networks and messaging apps to formally register with Kathmandu’s Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. This was intended to not only make these platforms more legally accountable, but ensure the government could collect tax on revenues they generated locally” (Kit Klarenberg, ‘A colour revolution in Nepal?’, Global Delinquents, 18 September 2025)
One of the Nepalese government’s goals with that policy was to emulate China’s ‘Great Firewall’ which promotes internet sovereignty and limits Western influence. The ban immediately put into motion all the Soros-financed organisations that operate inside the country (regrouped under the umbrella of the National Endowment for Democracy, an avowed CIA front) and whose existence depends on their ability to spread subversive ideas of Western style ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ online. Unfortunately the protesters, after extreme acts of violence (which led to the death of 76 people) managed to overthrow a pro-sovereignty prime minister and replace him with a Western puppet.
So far everything in the Mexico protests prove that it is the same forces of imperialism allied with all the reactionary forces inside the country that are responsible for any unrest and not a genuine call from the population for change. The second rally was poorly attended as the movement failed to gain mass support, and counter demonstrations of hundreds of thousands have been held in support of Claudia Sheinbaum. Similarly to Venezuela (facing renewed virulent attacks from Washington), Nicaragua, Cuba and Colombia, the masses of the progressive and socialist countries of Latin America are standing tight behind their governments and refuse to fell under control of the reactionary far right governments that Washington loves to put in place in the region in order to ths better to control the resources and super exploit the labour of the masses.
In the conditions of the world imperialist economic crisis of overproduction, it is not surprising that the working class everywhere feels frustration with the governments of the countries they live in, as they experience falling living standards and, in the case of youth, inability to find suitable employment opportunities. Social media facilitate the mustering of mobs in support of what are often perfectly legitimate demands. However, the experiences of Nepal, Bangla Desh, and Madagascar, for example, show that it is only too easy for imperialism, through manipulation of the social media platforms used by the protestors, to hijack the protests with a view to securing the overthrow of governments that try to defend their country from imperialist looting, and to have them replaced by more compliant regimes that have not the slightest interest in improving the conditions of the working people. It all proves that without correct leadership, mass movements can achieve very little and, at worst, can be hijacked by their worst enemies. Youth must seek out genuine communist and anti-imperialist leadership, and not allow itself to be led by the Pied Piper of social media.