Published on Jul 2, 2012 by democracynow
DemocracyNow.org - Mexico's old ruling
party, Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), is set to return to
power after early election results indicate the PRI candidate Enrique
Peña Nieto has won the presidential election.
Peña Nieto's chief rival,
the leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has not conceded, but
the PRI has already claimed victory. López Obrador had received a surge
in popularity in the weeks before the vote, thanks in part to a growing
national student movement against the PRI's return.
We go to Mexico
City to speak with John Ackerman, editor of the Mexican Law Review and a
professor at the National Autonomous University, UNAM, in Mexico. "Peña
Nieto is pretty clearly the candidate who will give continuity [to]
[outgoing Mexican President Felipe] Calderón's drug war strategies and
total subservience to [U.S.] dictates in continuing on with this violent
drug war and -- particularly having Mexico do [its] dirty work,"
Ackerman says. "I do not know how much longer [the Mexican people] will
be able to really deal with and have patience for this humanitarian
crisis we are going through. The good news is that the students are
still in the streets ... López Obrador has received basically the same
amount of votes as he did six years ago, 14 or 15 million people. This
means that there's going to be a strong opposition."
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