Jul 31, 2017

Mexico’s ruling party is in free fall

By Christy Thornton - Washington Post, jul 27
Earlier this month, a massive sinkhole opened suddenly in the middle of a new expressway south of Mexico City, swallowing a car and killing the two passengers inside. There could hardly be a more apt metaphor for the cratering legitimacy of Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto, and his ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

In the context of a global wave of anti-establishment politics, it’s hard to imagine a more establishment party than the PRI, which controlled Mexico with its soft-authoritarian, one-party structure for most of the 20th century. Now the party, once the glue that held the Mexican political system together, fastened tightly to a strong executive branch, is quickly losing its grip.

1 comment:

  1. Mexico needs a honest President who can lead Mexico into the 22nd century. Mexico has the potential to becoming another Canada if only had a leader like Mahatir or Lee Kwan Yew.

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