The Return of Mexico’s Nemesis
On July 1, Mexico will in all likelihood vote the PRI, which ruled the country for seven decades, back into power for the first time since 2000. But, while many Mexicans and foreign observers fear that a PRI victory would herald a return to authoritarian rule, too much has changed in the last 12 years for that to happen.
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MEXICO CITY – On July 1, Mexico will in all likelihood vote the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled the country for seven decades, back into power. The PRI’s candidate, Enrique Peña Nieto, holds an insurmountable lead late in the campaign. Many Mexicans, as well as the country’s foreign friends, fear that this turn of events heralds a return to the authoritarian, corrupt, and discredited past that Mexico had left behind when the National Action Party’s candidate, Vicente Fox, won the presidency in 2000.