By RICARDO CASTILLO It may only be mid-January and it’s definitely freezing cold weatherwise, but the war of words in the Mexican elections is already heating up fast. Presidential “pre-candidate” Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO, for short) is deeply concerned that things might turn violent before the July 1 election day. The problem is, maybe, he’s got a valid point. Two weeks ago in
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By RICARDO CASTILLLO Did Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto make a big mistake when he appointed José Antonio Meade Kuribreña as the candidate for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) for the 2018 presidential elections? A growing number of observers in Mexico think so. It was considered very strange when, about a week ago, candidate Meade launched a full
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A good question is why would the PRI choose Meade – a nonmilitant who is not even a party member – as its potential candidate?
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