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Dear American followers, I recommend giving Mexico risk a more prominent spot on your world watching radar. A crisis here would make your life tough (ask Colombia). Institutions are under attack, irrational decisions are being made, and our leader has
Dear American followers, I recommend giving Mexico risk a more prominent spot on your world watching radar. A crisis here would make your life tough (ask Colombia). Institutions are under attack, irrational decisions are being made, and our leader has
2/n a strong authoritarian bent. I understand that these things are happening in the USA too, but your institutions are older and stronger than ours and your president is far less popular. We who are worried are not right-wingers. My own political orientation is
center left. We all agree with AMLO's diagnosis (corruption, injustice, rent seeking, concentrated wealth and power) and most want as badly as he to make Mexico more fair and . But we want to do it in the only long-term sustainable way, patient, tireless,
"un-sexy" reform, building and fortifying institutions, not their destruction and not by fiat issuing from a charismatic "savior".
I lost count but, The End.
I meant of course to type "more fair and transparent".
