Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum made a last-minute decision to travel to Barcelona for the Global Progressive Mobilisation (GPM) meeting. This decision was made for non-public reasons, possibly somewhat hastily, as evidenced by her confusion with an initiative by Gabriel Boric when he was still president of Chile. The Global Progressive Mobilisation is not what she stated. Given the characteristics of the regime, which is strong in rhetoric but weak in substance, her participation would be of little importance except that the initiative's main goal is to contain Trump and his administration. Under the current global conditions, with the meeting's theme being 'No to War,' a clash with Trump's positions is predictable, aggravated by the fact that it is being held in Spain, where Sánchez has become the most awkward European leader for the U.S. president in the conflict with Iran. However, in this context, the ongoing negotiations between Mexico and the U.S. on the North American trade agreement and constant threats of unilateral action against Mexican drug cartels and politicians involved in organized crime are also crucial. If Sheinbaum decided to attend at the last minute, she should have recalibrated the state of relations with the United States. In general, the president operates under inherited political logic. She shares an ideological and narrative affinity network with the GPM, which gives her legitimacy and political support, but it does not determine the government's key decisions because it is not bound by a global structure. Boric had launched a proposal to five progressive leaders, whom he convened in Santiago last July—where Sheinbaum was not present—to promote an agenda of respect for democracy. The meeting she will attend was consolidated six years ago as an initiative resulting from the reorganization of the international left in 2018, following the exhaustion of traditional parties that paved the way for Brexit in the UK and Donald Trump's first term in the White House. This initiative is promoted by the Socialist International, and on the list of speakers is Beatriz Paredes, who has a strong relationship with the SI after years of affiliation with the PRI, which she expelled last November for a lack of ethics and a rightward turn. Participation signifies action and commitment to a worldview where, as stated in its foundational ideas, there is no room for neutrality. The initiative promotes international activism as a counterweight to conservative currents and right-wing and far-right leaderships.
