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Eric Werkhoven's avatar

The media strategy of the mexican reactionaries to use foreign publications to give weight to their desperate critiques is pure malinchismo. Or maybe it is the only public they can find since nobody in Mexico outside their tired clique of ineffectual intellectuals reads them anymore.

Mexico needs a decent opposition, but the current one is so discredited and out of ideas they can't provide it. They would do better to direct constructive criticism at themselves instead of calling somebody who implements direct democratic reforms and has so much public support anti-democratic.

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Peter Schaeffer's avatar

Mexico was not successful before AMLO. Mexico was not successful while AMLO was in office. Mexico will not be successful, irrespective of who wins the next election. More than 100 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville predicted that Mexico would not be successful. He was right. Check Mexico’s PISA scores. They are between Kazakhstan and Mongolia. No surprise that (measured by PISA scores), Singapore is number one. The rise of China dooms Mexico, in more ways than one.

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