A foreign government is running an ideological warfare operation inside American schools. It’s not hidden. It’s not subtle. And it’s been happening for years while school administrators either ignore it or actively help.
Mexico sends approximately one million textbooks into the United States annually through its network of 50+ consulates. These aren’t neutral educational materials. They’re Marxist propaganda designed to turn immigrant children against their new country and keep them loyal to Mexico.
Peter Schweizer’s new book The Invisible Coup exposes the entire operation—and the quotes from the people running it are stunning in their honesty about what they’re doing.
The Reconquista Agenda
Schweizer traces this effort to Mexico’s political class and their belief in “Reconquista”—the reconquering of the American Southwest, territories lost to the United States in the nineteenth century.
This isn’t fringe conspiracy theory. It’s documented policy. The Mexican government created “consulate programs to bolster migrants’ political, cultural, and economic loyalty to Mexico.” Not to help them succeed in America. To keep them psychologically attached to Mexico.
“Indoctrination begins with children,” Schweizer writes. “Mexico does not want young migrants in the United States to be loyal to the United States; it wants them instead to cling to Mexico’s resentments about its northern neighbor.”
And American school administrators? They’re “happy to oblige”—either out of ignorance or sympathy for the cause.
Soviet Nostalgia in Fourth Grade
The textbooks Mexico distributes are the same controversial materials used in Mexican schools. They offer a “decolonial” perspective inspired by Brazilian Marxist Paulo Freire, author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed—a foundational text for radical leftist education theory.
A 2023 Associated Press report found the books “wax nostalgic of the old Soviet Union.” One of the two officials in charge of compiling them proudly has the first name “Marx.” The other worked for Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.
A seventh-grade language arts introduction states: “The Rabfak, the schools for workers in the former Soviet Union, were considered spaces of knowledge. The dream is that Mexican middle schools and their textbooks can achieve that quality.”
The dream. Soviet worker schools. For Mexican children. In American classrooms.
The AP found “plenty of references to capitalism being bad” starting as early as fourth grade. Another secondary-level book teaches that “a fundamental cause of the origin of inequality” is “neoliberal socio-economic models”—meaning capitalism—and that “in modern capitalist societies, a small group ‘exploits’ the majority.”
This is what’s being taught to children in Los Angeles, Orlando, Chicago, and everywhere else these books reach.
America as the Enemy
Mexican history textbooks distributed here celebrate troops who fought Americans during the Mexican-American War. They paint the United States as the “enemy” who performed a “flag wave at the National Palace.”
The Mexican government “especially likes to keep its version of the Mexican-American War alive in the minds of young migrants,” Schweizer explains. Other advocates cheer the program as promoting “‘Greater Mexico’—one textbook at a time.”
Mexican diplomats speak of “strengthening the identity of Mexican children and youth living in the United States.” That’s diplomatic language for preventing assimilation.
They’re Saying It Out Loud
Raquel Romero, director of Mesoamerica Foundation—a nonprofit that helps distribute these government schoolbooks—explained the goal with remarkable candor:
“This is more than an outreach program. This is part of a concerted program to educate Hispanic children in the United States, and to help the United States make the transition into a bicultural society this century.”
She continued: “It is a way of understanding that Mexican culture is expanding across the border, that it is in ascendance, and that Hispanic and Latino children in the United States will never be blond, blue-eyed Anglos.”
That’s not integration. That’s colonization with a textbook instead of a flag.
Follow the Money
There’s another motive beyond ideology: cash.
Mexicans living in the United States send more than $60 billion annually back to Mexico in remittances. That money flows to families and local development projects.
“Mexicans living in the United States who adopt an affinity for America would be much less likely to send money back to their home country,” Schweizer writes.
Keep them angry at America. Keep them loyal to Mexico. Keep the money flowing south. It’s not complicated once you see the incentive structure.
The Invasion Nobody Stopped
One million textbooks per year. Fifty-plus consulates coordinating the effort. School administrators accepting foreign propaganda into American classrooms. Children being taught that capitalism is exploitation, the Soviet Union was aspirational, and America is the enemy that stole their homeland.
This has been happening in plain sight for years. Mexico isn’t even hiding it—their officials brag about “Greater Mexico” and transforming America into a “bicultural society.”
The only question is why we’ve allowed it for so long. And whether anyone will finally stop it.