"I don't share the optimism. I truly fear for Mexico's
democracy. I may well be wrong and I hope I am, but one doesn't have to look
very deeply at Enrique Peña Nieto's trajectory to find a man who represents
every one of PRI's vices in the past: Collusion with the media, steamrolling of
the opposition, blatant institutional engineering (Ley Peña-why on earth has
the media forgotten about this?), cover-up of corruption, mediocre social
programs, clientelism, and lest we forget, outright authoritarianism. There is
much more, but this is only from the past few years of his Mexico State
government. The past days, more and more stuff is simply seeping to the
surface.
This is a man who went to Oaxaca in 2010 to actively
stump for a murderous repressor and scoundrel, Ulises Ruiz, when he tried to
impose his PRI successor, and on whose campaign trail in Puebla had the
pedophile-protecting Mario Marín appear at his campaign events...
Yet it is not only about one man, Peña Nieto - and I
hold him in a very low regard - but of a party as well, which has shown
absolutely no indication it has changed. I don't think this is demagoguery;
there are many good priístas just like there are good people in any party. But
a party carries within it an imprint that it is very, very hard to rid itself
of. And looking at how PRI and their thugs acted in the 2010 and 2011 state
elections, I fear for Mexico's democracy should they return to executive
powers, backed by legislative majorities. They
won't be easily removed."
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