US President Threatens Mexico… Again. Media Calls It News.
Mexico's president, Claudia Sheinbaum, is once again swatting away Donald Trump's threats of military action against drug cartels, with The Guardian presenting it as breaking news. One might be forgiven for thinking US presidents have never before mused aloud about policing their southern neighbor, or, heaven forbid, acted on such impulses. The media frames this as a new 'threat,' as if “good
fences make good neighbors” isn't just a poem, but a foreign policy doctrine Washington has consistently ignored. From the Mexican-American War to countless covert operations and economic pressures, the U.S. has a long, bloody history of treating its southern neighbor less like a sovereign state and more like a convenient projection screen for its latest domestic anxieties. How many times does 'we
do not want intervention' need to be said before it’s heard, not just reported?