In this installment of VERSUS, we analyzed how the opposition has chosen to intensify a provocative speech that seeks to generate noise and polarization. Ana Lilia Pérez, Alina Duarte and Perla Velázquez pointed out that this strategy aims to establish the perception of a country in constant confrontation.
Mexico City, November 24 (However).- The right Mexico has escalated its strategy of confrontation against the Government of the President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardotransferring what began as a digital campaign based on hate speech to actions on public roads that, in recent weeks, have shown episodes of violence, misogyny and anti-Semitism, the journalists agreed Ana Lilia Pérez, Alina Duarte and Perla Velázquez.
Alina Duarte pointed out that this opposition bloc is going through a moment of despair, having not achieved the massive influence it sought with its dirty war.
“Fortunately, the right is giving something to talk about. They are unloading, they are making themselves visible… however, in this desperation that they have of not being able to influence as they would like, on a massive scale, they have openly resorted to violence, to hate speech as their main tool to try to destabilize. I don’t think that is directly convincing the population,” he stated.
Duarte located a breaking point in the so-called march of Generation Z, where, he said, the alliance between figures from the PAN and the PRI with businessmen such as Ricardo Salinas Pliego became transparent.
“Little by little these masks are falling… Alessandra Rojo de la Vega appears, who is being questioned for having financed the so-called black bloc,” he noted.
Along the same lines, journalist Ana Lilia Pérez recalled that the opposition strategy did not emerge recently, but rather dates back to the 2024 presidential campaign, when the now President Claudia Sheinbaum led all the polls.
“In an act of desperation, Jorge Castañeda… openly recommends a dirty war, he says, ‘but seriously dirty’. They injected a lot of resources into it, but it doesn’t work for them,” he explained.
Pérez warned that today these methods remain in force and directly seek to sabotage the federal government.
“All these elements are part of that dirty war strategy where they intend to sabotage and destabilize the Government of Claudia Sheinbaum and it is as evident as the campaigns of hate and misogyny that have been launched on social networks and reproduced by the media.”
The journalist highlighted that the climate worsened recently, particularly on November 15, with demonstrations where openly violent expressions appeared.
“Although there were very few participants, we did see messages of hate, many expressions of misogynism and anti-Semitism against the President. We should not normalize these types of hate campaigns,” he urged.
For her part, Perla Velázquez warned that these tactics have become recurrent and increasingly aggressive. “These are points that it seems that we are seeing as something normal in the opposition’s strategy, that they are going to be increasingly aggressive, that they are going to be increasingly cyclical and more blatant,” he stated.
He recalled that the opposition has vast economic resources to inflate campaigns on social networks. “They have a lot of economic power that should not be minimized… they tried to do it with
Velázquez maintained that currently the objective is to transfer hate speech from the digital environment to the streets: “They are looking for this hate speech not only to take place on X, TikTok, Instagram, but to take it abroad,” he warned.