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   A congressional staffer from Mexico’s ruling party has resigned after   
   being called out online for comments he made on a major Mexican   
   television news program about Turning Point USA executive director   
   Charlie Kirk’s murder.   
      
   The news network, Milenio, also released a public apology after the   
   United States’ deputy secretary of state – a former ambassador to Mexico   
   – evidently threatened to have Donald Trump’s presidential   
   administration revoke any US visas on which it may count.   
      
   The episode that unfolded at Milenio continued a trend of people losing   
   their jobs over commentary about Kirk – a self-proclaimed free-speech   
   advocate – deemed offensive by American conservatives, though in this   
   instance it was outside the US.   
      
   Kirk, a close Trump ally, was shot dead Wednesday while speaking at a   
   university in Utah. Following his death, conservative commentators,   
   activists and public officials in the US have engaged in social media   
   campaigns against people accused of disrespecting Kirk’s memory.   
      
   A Saturday morning tally by Reuters showed that at least 15 people had   
   been fired or suspended.   
      
   On Thursday, Christopher Landau, the deputy secretary of state and   
   former US Mexican ambassador, warned on X that “foreigners who glorify   
   violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country”.   
      
   “Please feel free to bring such comments by foreigners to my attention   
   so that the state department can protect the American people,” said   
   Landau, who was appointed US ambassador to Mexico and served from 2019   
   to 2021 during Trump’s first presidency.   
      
   People began responding to Landau’s post with examples of foreign   
   nationals criticizing or making light of Kirk’s death. Among those was a   
   clip of Salvador Ramírez, a social communications coordinator for the   
   ruling Morena party, speaking on a television news program on Milenio.   
      
   Ramírez appeared on a roundtable political analysis program with   
   Milenio, discussing Kirk’s killing.   
      
   “I think if Charlie Kirk lived, he may like what I am about to say,   
   because what I am about to say is very ‘anti-woke’,” Ramírez facetiously   
   said. “He was given a spoonful of his own chocolate. They gave a   
   spoonful to someone who promoted the use of weapons. They gave a   
   spoonful to someone who was financed by the National Rifle Association –   
   a political association that is of the extreme right, pro-Trump, of the   
   most radical wing of the Republicans.”   
      
   Ramírez added that Turning Point USA was “an anti-rights, anti-LGBT –   
   practically anti-women – movement”.   
      
   After a post tagging Milenio and the Morena party made Landau aware of   
   Ramirez’s comments, he responded with an image reading “El Quitavisas”,   
   roughly meaning “the visa remover”. Minutes later, Landau went after   
   Milenio itself, which is one of the most watched and read news outlets   
   in Mexico.   
      
   “Really, Milenio? This is the level of ‘discourse’ that you promote on   
   your channel? I am embarrassed for having interacted with you during my   
   tenure as United States ambassador to Mexico,” Landau wrote.   
      
   Milenio released a public statement on Friday, apologizing for Ramirez’s   
   comments, saying the outlet does not “promote nor accept expressions of   
   hate, violence or disqualification towards any person or group”.   
      
   “We regret that the remarks made during one of our programs may have   
   upset or offended a part of the audience, and we offer a sincere apology   
   to those who felt offended,” the statement read.   
      
   Ramirez then released a video on Friday afternoon apologizing for his   
   “very unfortunate” comments, saying they were his own thoughts and not   
   representative of the Morena party nor of Milenio. Later that evening,   
   Ramirez officially announced his resignation from the parliamentary   
   group for the Morena party within the Mexican house of representatives.   
      
   Others who had similarly lost their jobs or been disciplined at them   
   over commentary about Kirk’s killing have included journalists, academic   
      
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