Mexico elects a new president
Photo by Angélica Rivera de Peña
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Enrique Pena Nieto is the apparent president-elect of Mexico. At, age 45, he is the new face of the PRI party, which previously kept power for seven decades through rigged elections, corruption and patronage.
PRI was credited with modernizing Mexico’s economy. But it also stifled political dissent. The party fell from power because of economic crises and corruption scandals.
Today, PRI is considered centrist and autocratic.
PRI pledges a refocus on the drug war. But during the campaign, there was hardly a mention of actually attacking drug trafficking and taking down drug cartels, but more going after the violence associated with it.
Pena Nieto promises honesty, transparency and full accounting of public funds.
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Posted by Gary
on Jul 2 2012. Filed under Breaking News, Politics, World.
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The truth is, this years campaigns and elections were even more pathetic than the past ones. Candidates with no tangible agenda who devoted themselves to attacking their competition. As a mexican, I think the only positive issue that I can recall is the fact that the dormantstudents decided to stand up for themselves and express their thoughts and ideas. As a woman, I have a great deal of respect for the PAN candidate, Josefina Vázquez Mota, but she and her campaign team failed in creating an effective campaign focusing on the evident: She was a woman and she had the potential of winning women´s votes. Instead, she and her team chose to play the gentlemen´s game, and she clearly is not one. I just hope the student movements and the sudden political awakening will serve as a vigilant cohesive group that will thrive to improve our country.