Mexican migration and social stability
Mexican migration and social stability Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero Mexican paleoconservatism constitutes an ideological and political current deeply rooted in traditional, nationalist, and religious values, whose historical function has been the defense of a status quo based on social, cultural, and economic hierarchies. This force, which governs both nostalgic right-wing and populist left-wing movements, operates under a logic of control, centralization, and systematic rejection of enlightened modernity. Its clearest manifestation is the resistance to transformations that promote inclusion, legal certainty, and merit, preferring instead to preserve traditional power structures that favor local political bosses, clientelism, corporatism, and a veiled pigmentocracy inherited from the colonial caste system. This current has developed control strategies that bureaucratize and inhibit any attempt at democratization or profound social change. The persistence of this model i...