Don’t worry! This is always happen in many countries!! Power is the word. Obviously the US, has their nose too.
America hypocrisy is biggest game in my life time. Trump is doing everything that we pretend we did not liked, but behind the scenes we played dirty games.
Federal government in Mexico is divided into three branches: Executive, Legislative and Judicial, each with different legal capacities. Asking a candidate -or a President- to prosecute a crime implies an invasion of Judicial capacities. Thus, when Mr. López-Obrador's says: "I won't prosecute outgoing President Peña Nieto" he is, in fact, respecting the Rule of Law. To continue using this "argument" by followers of the National Action Party (PAN) to prove there is a shady deal among Mr. López-Obrador and the President's party only reveals ignorance of Mexico's political system.
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I love Mexico and can only wish Mexicans a government apart from the PRI which has adopted policies that have weakened the economy ever since NAFTA.
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It used to be tradition to do a massive devaluation of the government controlled currency rate that the outgoing (and preferred incoming elite) could take advantage of. Effectively doubling their cash given that devaluations were so drastic.
Amazing how corrupt governments abroad are now copying trump's government.
I pray we do not have 71 years of one party Republican rule, though it is more likely to be a trump rule.
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The government has put the thumb on the scale, no doubt about that.
The circumstantial evidence points to an immunity pact between current president Peña Nieto and the Morena candidate, Mr. López.
López has said that he will not investigate a series of irregularities that took place on Peña’s government. Anaya has said he will, and he has all these phony AG investigations “clouding” his campaign.
A complicated time for North America. It all looks like you will have your Trump and we will have the Tropical version, Mr. López. Gaslighting the people for at least the next few years
Federal government in Mexico is divided into three branches: Executive, Legislative and Judicial, each with different legal capacities. Asking a candidate -or a President- to prosecute a crime implies an invasion of Judicial capacities. Thus, when Mr. López-Obrador's says: "I won't prosecute outgoing President Peña Nieto" he is, in fact, respecting the Rule of Law. To continue using this "argument" by followers of the National Action Party (PAN) to prove there is a shady deal among Mr. López-Obrador and the President's party only reveals ignorance of Mexico's political system.
Sounds like the PRI needs to engage the services of Kris Kobach to help move their voting system in the right direction with some state of the art voter suppression tactics.
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PRI is the master of those tactics, unfortunately... That explains their 70 years of ruling. Power is so irresistible to these guys, they just can't let go :)
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Whatever happens, it is unlikely that anything will change for the average citizen. It's tough to be a Mexican, these days, which is too bad, because they are a lovely people.
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Agreed, ChesBay, and thank you for your kind words. Mexicans' fate will start to change when we, like the American people, start organizing at the community level to make change happen. I've studied the Nonprofit Sector in your country for years and its one of the best features you all have up there. Un abrazo!
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It has been a very long time since the "voice of the people" was actually responsible for an election outcome. The Golden Rule, indeed.
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No "wall" can separate this kind of election-engineering from finding its way into the US.
(oh, wait...it was already here...)
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Isn't this Collusion by the pro illegal emmigration and anti Trump deep state with a corrupt Mexican Socialist government?... to influence government policy and interfere in an election?
I am still waiting for an NYT scoop and expose!
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Mexico is such a beautiful country, and it would be wonderful if we could all get along better in this hemisphere and form closer ties benefitting all. Right now, though, we cannot seem to even form closer ties with ourselves.
The article discusses negative campaigning in Mexico with the sitting candidate unleashing abuse on the challenger and running against that. The other guy for his part has been running his own campaign against the U.S. president. Pretty much everyone has been running a campaign against Trump and Trump has been enthusiastically reciprocating while firing all new opening salvos.
The upshot of this hatefest is that people on both sides of the border are being encouraged to cast their votes based on hate. That doesn't really do us any good because if you spend all your time ranting about what you hate you never really get around to negotiating for what you need and want.
You also seriously erode any chance of being able to engage in any sort of negotiation with anyone because everyone is too busy feeling enraged and vengeful. I don't see where any sort of reapproachment between anyone is even possible as long as this sorry situation persists.
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Mexico is hopeless; how can that be? It's been broken for a very long time - agriculture was it's historical economy driver, then came oil in the early years of the last century. That's still true today, except for drugs. The lack of industry was what spurred them to sign on to NAFTA, but all that did was displace the farmers. Not a good story; not a good future.
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Mexico has the world's fourteenth largest economy. Your taking points are decades out of date.
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Electoral misbehavior by PRI is not exactly a surprise. The people have seen this before, as has Lopez Obrador. The current administration is a shambles. Plus Meade, the new PRI candidate, is a lackluster cipher. It's hard to see this strategy working out well for the oligarchy if it depends in any great degree on persuading actual voters. Only outright election fraud has any real chance of success.
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woofer--It's the Republican Party of Mexico.
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It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. - Joseph Stalin
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invisible--True in our country, it would appear, as well.
That rally looked pretty empty. I wonder where everyone was at.
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Until they fully legalize abortion and fully protect LGBT rights, Mexico is just a Papist front.
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I fear the leading contender will be assassinated as it appears the US Conservatives playbook is being passed around the world.
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"Faced with dismal polls, the country’s ruling party is pulling the levers of government to its ends. It also considered using the Trump campaign consultant Cambridge Analytica."
If Mr. Trump's approach to politics is seen in other countries to be a "successful" one, it is reasonable to assume that it would be copied all over the world. That means soon many countries will be led by superficial demagogues and chaos will be ruling everywhere. And, if history is any indication, such a situation will quickly culminates into a major war involving many countries.
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That seems like a *little* bit of a slippery slope argument.
Just to give you an idea of how the politics is in Mexico. One of our friends houses was broken into by a known bad boy in a small town outside of Merida.
He was arrested and the judge ordered him to pay restitution. About $20 to the owner. The PRI paid the bill and there was therefore no punishment. Unless, of course, he votes the wrong way on July 1st.
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"The PRI reviewed the (Cambridge Analytica) proposal for months, but eventually decided it didn’t need to pay millions of dollars to an outsider to wage a dirty campaign, according to three people familiar with the negotiations. The party could do that itself."
Yes, the PRI is demonstrating it is very capable of running a dirty campaign, and they are doing so now.
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Cambridge Analytica is defunct in name only. The principals, including Rebekah and Jennifer Mercer, and Eric Prince, formed a new company called Emerdata, which they are now claiming doesn't exist. I expect it does exist, but they changed the name again when they made the news.
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How can that be? Isn't Cambridge Analytica too busy working to help the Republicans win again this fall to help anyone else?
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The "great" thing about evildoers is that they multitask.
Whether it's through financing multiple anti-democracy propaganda fronts, waging genocides on multiple countries, or paying hush money (in installments!) to multiple side women, you can count on one to be as bad as possible in as many ways as possible.
They're like CPUs, but nominally human and with offshore bank accounts.
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Mexico since the introduction of NAFTA has sorely lagged in growth and there is no reason to think the current governing party has any policy plans to foster more growth in the country:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=eJQ9
August 4, 2014
Real per capita Gross Domestic Product for United States, Canada, Mexico and Chile, 1992-2016
(Indexed to 1992)
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The comments section, it seems, is the only place in the corporate media in which the truth, that NAFTA has been an overall negative to the Mexican economy, can appear.
Here is a thorough analysis of the harm that's been done by NAFTA:
http://cepr.net/images/stories/reports/nafta-mexico-update-2017-03.pdf?v=2
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Hola Ed Watters! I believe any trade deal brings prosperity to partners as long as the new wealth is distributed among all participants (workers, owners, etc.) under fair basis. This never happened in Mexico. Only big American -and some Mexican- companies have benefited from NAFTA. Cheap labor, new consumers, you name it :) Regards from Mexico!