By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It was bad enough that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) much-touted public consulta (referendum) on Sunday, Aug. 1, to decide whether to prosecute his predecessors for their alleged misdeeds was a total disaster in terms of turnout (early estimates put eligible voter participation at between 7.07 and 7.74 percent; the final count was 7.11 percent),
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS No matter how you look at it, Mexico’s public referendum (consulta) on Sunday, Aug. 1, to determine whether to prosecute former presidents for their alleged misdeeds was a disaster. According to early reports from the National Electoral Institute (INE), which was in charge of organizing and supervising the 528-million-peso fiasco, between 7.07 and 7.74 percent of the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS On Sunday, Aug. 1, millions of Mexicans — mostly devoted followers of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) — turned out to cast their vote in a convoluted referendum to decide whether to prosecute the nation’s former presidents for their alleged misdeeds. And even though AMLO touted the “consulta” as a “momentous experience” in Mexico’s democracy, in
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