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oh yeah here https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/09/claudia-sheinbaum-mexico-democracy-erosion/

The gist of the complaint is here:

In recent days, Sheinbaum’s government has advanced a new “reform bill” targeting the telecommunications sector, granting itself regulatory powers redolent of those claimed by other authoritarian regimes. Mony de Swaan, Mexico’s federal telecommunications regulator from 2010 to 2013, described the government’s bill as a “highly discretionary, regressive law.”

The thing about liberalism is that it’s like a coin with two very different sides. On one face, you’ve got political liberalism that's all about individual freedoms, fair elections, and human rights. This is the feel-good stuff that makes liberalism seem universally appealing. Who doesn’t like freedom, right?

But flip that coin over and you get economic liberalism, which is really just capitalism wearing a fancy philosophical mask. This side worships markets, treats private property as sacred, and assumes wealth accumulation is basically a human right. Since property rights are seen as the foundation of all other freedoms, the system effectively locks in wealth inequality by making redistribution seem like theft.

That’s why liberals lose their minds whenever governments impinge on the rights of the rich or regulate corporations. In their worldview, any limit on property rights is a threat to freedom itself.