A Josefina Vázquez Mota profile in The Guardian (by Luis Hernández Navarro, opinion editor of La Jornada) is well worth a read. It draws attention to traits pretty much ignored the past days, such a quite worrisome one:
Her religious zeal.
Also, from the very sharp Shannon O'Neil, a profile in Foreign Affairs.My only quibble is that while she notes the PAN candidate has "substantial political experience," she could also have dug a bit more to note that she has, either in government or as a federal deputy, achieved very, very little.
Indeed, except from a public spat with Elba Esther Gordillo, I can't hardly even remember her grabbing the limelight for anything substantial the past six years.
Friday, February 10, 2012
Chiapas: Senator Orantes left's governor candidate
It's a classic story: María Elena Orantes López is a senator, and was until recently a prominent member of the PRI - until that party denied her the nomination to be its gubernatorial candidate in Chiapas.
The left stepped in, negotiated, and Manuel Camacho Solís, coordinator of the PRD-PT-MC-MORENA electoral alliance, just announced her candidacy for the left coalition to be 2012-18 governor of Chiapas..
The mayor of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Yassir Vázquez (PRD) is not happy. He was also the delfín of current governor Juan Sabines (also an ex-PRI member recruited by the left when, you got it, he, too, was denied its nomination in 2006), and need to be awarded some kind of consolation price.
Given that the PRI is also in turmoil in Chiapas for much of the same reasons, Orantes stands a good chance of winning, and was also strongly backed by AMLO, who noted her alleged progressive record as Senator.
We'll see.
The left stepped in, negotiated, and Manuel Camacho Solís, coordinator of the PRD-PT-MC-MORENA electoral alliance, just announced her candidacy for the left coalition to be 2012-18 governor of Chiapas..
The mayor of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Yassir Vázquez (PRD) is not happy. He was also the delfín of current governor Juan Sabines (also an ex-PRI member recruited by the left when, you got it, he, too, was denied its nomination in 2006), and need to be awarded some kind of consolation price.
Given that the PRI is also in turmoil in Chiapas for much of the same reasons, Orantes stands a good chance of winning, and was also strongly backed by AMLO, who noted her alleged progressive record as Senator.
We'll see.
Three million more poor in three years
What a damning indictment of PAN and Calderón's social and economic policies: According to CONEVAL, there are now 3.2 million poor in Mexico when compared with 2008. Mexico's indigenous are particularly hard hit:
Josefina Vázquez Mota is running, much like Calderón in 2006, on a campaign of continuity with PAN's policies. For the poor of Mexico, that is a terrible choice.
Of the indigenous population, 40.5% have nutritional deficiencies, exacerbated by their condition of marginality and exclusion.See CONEVAL's full report here.
Josefina Vázquez Mota is running, much like Calderón in 2006, on a campaign of continuity with PAN's policies. For the poor of Mexico, that is a terrible choice.
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