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PRI to PRD: from right to left and back again
Mexico's political state maintains its cycle of corruption
Vince Ochoa
Issue date: 9/6/06 Section: Opinion
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There is a common law among Mexican politicians. It's Herold's Law, La Ley de Herodes: "o chingas o te jodes".
According to the international and Mexican media, Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is a leftist. Obrador says he is a leftist because the Mexican people have been cheated by the corrupt right. His opponents use the word leftist as a pejorative statement comparing him to Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro. His supporters say that a leftist movement is just what Mexico needs.
They give him an apotheosize image for the poor of Mexico. However, Obrador is far from left. He is so far from left that he is on the right.
The three main political parties in Mexico today are the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the National Action Party (PAN), and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).
The PRI had hegemonic power in the country for more than 70 years. The PRI's political ideology is centrism, Christian democracy, and social democracy. Their only Christian values are stealing money and governing people's lives.
Lázaro Cárdenas, a member of the PRI, expropriated the oil interests of United States and European petroleum companies before World War II. He nationalized different industries and provided social institutions.
To name a couple of other PRI presidents who were despised by many, Miguel de la Madrid and Carlos Salinas de Gortari privatized many industries including: banks, roads, and telecommunications. In addition, they also negotiated NAFTA.
In 1988, the PRI won the presidential election by fraud. Salinas received help from Manuel Camacho Solis and Marcelo Ebrard. Remember these names.
Mexican Roman Catholics, together with other conservatives, founded the PAN in 1939 after the Cristero War. The PAN is on the right of Mexico's political spectrum, wanting free enterprise, reduced taxes, smaller government, and reform of the welfare state. It is similar to the Republican Party.
According to the international and Mexican media, Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is a leftist. Obrador says he is a leftist because the Mexican people have been cheated by the corrupt right. His opponents use the word leftist as a pejorative statement comparing him to Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro. His supporters say that a leftist movement is just what Mexico needs.
They give him an apotheosize image for the poor of Mexico. However, Obrador is far from left. He is so far from left that he is on the right.
The three main political parties in Mexico today are the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the National Action Party (PAN), and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).
The PRI had hegemonic power in the country for more than 70 years. The PRI's political ideology is centrism, Christian democracy, and social democracy. Their only Christian values are stealing money and governing people's lives.
Lázaro Cárdenas, a member of the PRI, expropriated the oil interests of United States and European petroleum companies before World War II. He nationalized different industries and provided social institutions.
To name a couple of other PRI presidents who were despised by many, Miguel de la Madrid and Carlos Salinas de Gortari privatized many industries including: banks, roads, and telecommunications. In addition, they also negotiated NAFTA.
In 1988, the PRI won the presidential election by fraud. Salinas received help from Manuel Camacho Solis and Marcelo Ebrard. Remember these names.
Mexican Roman Catholics, together with other conservatives, founded the PAN in 1939 after the Cristero War. The PAN is on the right of Mexico's political spectrum, wanting free enterprise, reduced taxes, smaller government, and reform of the welfare state. It is similar to the Republican Party.