A National Exercise in Futility, Economic Waste
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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