AMLO's refounding
pc at Ganchoblog notes that AMLO (André Manuel López Obrador) is "refounding" his shadow government. He has ten goals:
1) Rescuing the state and putting it at the service of the people and the nation
3) Creating a new economy
4) Combating monopolistic practices
5) Abolishing fiscal special treatment
6) Exercising politics as an ethical imperative
7) Strengthening the energy sector
8) Achieving nutritional sovereignty
9) Establishing a welfare state
10) Promoting a new current of thought
And a patridge in a pear tree. These are so broad as to be essentially meaningless, but they provide a foundation on which to begin advocating specific policies.
AMLO is looking to the 2012 presidential election. I keep thinking of him as a Mexican Richard Nixon, going off scorned into the political wilderness and then re-emerging after whipping up his base.
And a patridge in a pear tree. These are so broad as to be essentially meaningless, but they provide a foundation on which to begin advocating specific policies.
AMLO is looking to the 2012 presidential election. I keep thinking of him as a Mexican Richard Nixon, going off scorned into the political wilderness and then re-emerging after whipping up his base.
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And a patridge in a pear tree. These are so broad as to be essentially meaningless...
Come on. You should know exactly what each of those GOALS means. Mexicans surely do. And a set of "10 goals" is different than a set of 10 policy prescriptions.
If you want a list of broad meaningless policy recommendations, you could have cited the recent (inconguriously named) "Social Agenda for Latin America" signed by lots of US-friendly ex-Presidents. Unveiled in... Washington DC.
Poor AMLO, can't seem to get over the fact he's no longer relevant.
Poor AMLO, can't seem to get over the fact he's no longer relevant.
We will see about that... he can still get more people in the street than anyone else, I am quite sure.
For the analogy to work, the PRD will first need to nominate a Goldwater before they'll accept a Nixon again.
I hear Mel Zelaya is looking for work...
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