“reconquista,” admitted by Mexico

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former Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, commonly known as AMLO, and his protege and current Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum have both publicly embraced the concept of reconquista...

“Many pillars of the Mexican elite embrace the notion of Reconquista—the ‘reconquest’ of the land ceded to the United States by Mexico during the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, achieved through mass migration and political action,”

“Do you think that we Mexicans are reconquering our lands again?” AMLO said “yes.”

“Yes, especially because the human rights of migrant workers must be respected,”

“The Hymn of the Migrant,” which Sheinbaum herself played at a news briefing in 2024.
“And though my birth certificate says American I am pure Mexican,” the song’s lyrics proclaim. “We change places but not flags/I carry green, white and red in my veins.”

“We Mexicans are reclaiming our territory. I won’t be able to see it when we fully recover it. Its size has been growing for 30 years,” National Population Council (CONAPO) chief Gabriela Rodriguez declared in December 2024

Senator Felix Salgado, similarly proclaimed in 2019, “Mexicans are in our territory (California, Nevada, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Wyoming). We’re going to take back the territory that was stolen from us.”

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