{"id":381002,"date":"2025-08-28T21:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/381002\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T21:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:37:12","slug":"brawl-erupts-in-mexicos-senate-after-debate-over-us-military-intervention-to-fight-drug-cartels-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/381002\/","title":{"rendered":"Brawl erupts in Mexico\u2019s senate after debate over US military intervention to fight drug cartels | Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mexico<\/a>\u2019s senate devolved into violence this week as two of the country\u2019s top politicians shoved, grabbed and shouted at each other after a heated discussion over the presence of foreign troops.<\/p>\n

Alejandro \u201cAlito\u201d Moreno, head of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary party (Pri), grabbed at Gerardo Fern\u00e1ndez Noro\u00f1a, the senate president from the ruling Morena party, after lawmakers finished singing the national anthem to mark the end of the day\u2019s session on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m asking you to let me speak,\u201d Moreno says repeatedly in the livestreamed video.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t touch me,\u201d Fern\u00e1ndez Noro\u00f1a responds.<\/p>\n

When Fern\u00e1ndez Noro\u00f1a tries to pull himself away, Moreno can be seen grabbing at him again, before both lawmakers start grabbing and shoving each other, with Moreno even slapping Fern\u00e1ndez Noro\u00f1a on the neck. When an aide to Fern\u00e1ndez Noro\u00f1a steps between them, Moreno knocks him to the floor.<\/p>\n

As Fern\u00e1ndez Noro\u00f1a tries to exit the podium, another lawmaker enters the fray, taking a swing at the senate leader.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Moreno] started to provoke me, to touch me, to pull at me,\u201d Fern\u00e1ndez Noro\u00f1a said during a press conference after the incident. \u201cHe hit me on the arms and said: \u2018I\u2019m going to beat the shit out of you, I\u2019m going to kill you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Moreno wrote on social media: \u201cWhen Noro\u00f1a crossed the line, he knew exactly what he was doing. I will always respond head-on, with character and without fear, to defend Mexico<\/a> and give it the direction it deserves.\u201d<\/p>\n

The scuffle followed a tense debate during which the governing Morena party and its allies accused the opposition Pri and Pan parties of calling for US military<\/a> intervention in Mexico, a claim that both parties denied.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, a senator from the Pan party had gone on Fox News and said that \u201chelp from the United States to fight the cartels in Mexico is absolutely welcome\u201d.<\/p>\n

The issue has become particularly contentious in Mexico after Donald Trump<\/a> reportedly authorized<\/a> the use of military force targeting drug cartels deemed terrorist organizations in Latin American countries.<\/p>\n

The senate leader said he would call an emergency session on Friday and propose expelling Moreno and three other Pri lawmakers as a result of the scuffle. Fern\u00e1ndez Noro\u00f1a also posted on X that he had filed a criminal complaint against Moreno.<\/p>\n

In a statement on X, Moreno accused the governing party of changing the order of the day at the last minute in order to silence the opposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mexico\u2019s senate devolved into violence this week as two of the country\u2019s top politicians shoved, grabbed and shouted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-381002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115108553901450818","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}