Sunday, May 27, 2012

Intellectuals with Peña Nieto

Interesting array of intellectuals and other leaders who appear to have lined up with Enrique Peña Nieto, judging by those attending an even/-lauding his "responses" to 37 "questions" they had written to the PRI presidential candidate

* Fernando Gómez Mont, former Interior Secretary who resigned from his post and then his party in protest over the 2010 PAN-PRD alliances
* Héctor Aguilar Camín, historian and Televisa personality
* Cecilia Soto, former presidential candidate for PT
* Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, historian
* Alejandro Martí, businessman and anti-kidnapping movement leader
* Ángeles Mastretta, writer

It is perhaps more notable how very few of Mexico's writers and intellectuals, organic or otherwise, have lined up with the PRI candidate.


Source:
Priísta defiende su formación demócrata. El Universal, May 22, 2012.


3 comments:

  1. Yes, exactly what passed my mind when I saw this PRI move. It was "115m people...and that's all you got?"

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  2. And, with the exception of Aguilar Camín, none of these are particularly well known intellectuals. Gomez Mont is a legal scholar, but better known as a politician. Ángeles Mastretta ranks up there with Danielle Steele as a literary figure. Rafael Tovar y de Teresa... kinda obscure (ok, he was ambassador to Italy, but c'mon) and Alejandro Martí? OK, a tee-shirt manufacturer can be intellectual, but like Javier Sicilia (who really is one of the intelligencia), just the father of a crime victim.

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  3. Brilliant observations:)

    Abrazos

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