Demonstrators protest the election of Peña Nieto as Mexican president

Monday, July 23rd 2012 - 06:12 UTC

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Thousands of people marched through Mexico City to denounce the July 1 election of Enrique Peña Nieto as president, though the protest was smaller than one held earlier this month. Read full article

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JoseAngeldeMonterrey
Populist and radical leftist movements have been defeated election after election, but they never recognize their defeat. Mexico has just saved another populist bullet, another Hugo Chavez, another Evo, another Correa, another latin american anti-democratic and anti-free trade demagogue.
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 12:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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British_Kirchnerist
#1 And instead got a corrupt party that everyone from the aforementioned leftists to the right wing PAN see as illegitimate vote riggers. Good luck with that. And next time, with PAN pretty much out of the game, PRI will win
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 02:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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JoseAngeldeMonterrey
#2,

First, PAN recognizes Peña Nieto´s victory, that doesn´t mean that they will not point out irregularities in the election. But Lopez Obrador is out trying to discredit the whole election, which is unreal, more than 45 million mexicans voted, in secret, in private, and in freedom. So Lopez Obrador is constructing a fraud on false premises.
And all political parties are corrupted, none has exclusive rights on corruption in Mexico, neither elsewhere and everywhere around the world, in Brazil there have been plenty of corruption charges in Dilma´s cabinet, for example.

The left has launched a campaign against Peña Nieto, a young politician with no records of corruption, his campaign staff, like Videgaray and others, have no charges of corruption either, many in the PRI have been caught and charged of corruption, but many in PRD and PAN as well. In fact, Lopez Obrador himself had plenty of charges of corruption, documented in videos, while he was major of Mexico City.
Jul 23rd, 2012 - 04:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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British_Kirchnerist
#2 I meant PRD next time, sorry!

#3 Of course there is corruption in all parties, the PRI is famous for having nothing else but corruption which is surely different from for example Dilma's cabinet, which she has been very strictly cleaning up
Jul 24th, 2012 - 08:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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JoseAngeldeMonterrey
The problem is not the corruption, just like Dilma is doing in Brazil, there are efforts in Mexico to eradicate it as well, transparency laws, more accountability, etc.
The problem with Lopez Obrador is not only that he is corrupt, is that he is messianic, he has created a cult around himself of radical leftist, extremely radical and totalitarian. He talks about “regeneration” and “purification” of Mexico´s society. As if he were some kind of priest. His movement is fascist in nature, does not accept any criticism at all and violently attack any journalist or media who dares criticize them.
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