Ah, the Mexican Senate. A place of decorum and statesmanship.
The two men exchanging blows were PRI leader Alejandro "Alito" Moreno (on the left) Cárdenas and Senate President Gerardo Fernández Noroña of the Morena party (on the right). Moreno was upset that he wasn't given the floor to refute the Morena party's accusation that the PRI party supports U.S. military intervention against the cartels.
More from CBS News:
The brawl followed a heated debate during which the opposition PRI and PAN were accused of calling for U.S. military intervention, a claim that both parties deny.
The socialist Morena party (National Regeneration Movement) is in power currently. AOC and Bernie would love them. The PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) is like the nation's old-school centrist Democrats, and the PAN (National Action Party) is considered right-wing ... but on the U.S. political spectrum, might be best described as "Catholics who are pro-life and pro-business but still occasionally vote Democrat."
Neither of these minority parties wanted people to think they support the U.S. nuking the cartels from orbit.
One might wonder why.
Norona said later he would file a complaint against Moreno for bodily harm and request that his legislative immunity be revoked.
'The debate could be very harsh, very bitter, very strong... today when (opposition legislators) are exposed for their treason, they lose their minds because they were exposed,' he said.
Moreno accused Norona of initiating the attack, saying on social media platform X: 'He was the one who started the attack; he did it because he couldn't silence us with arguments.'
'The first physical aggression came from Norona,' Moreno wrote on X. 'He threw the first shove, and he did it out of cowardice.'
Stay classy, México!
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