{"id":29011,"date":"2021-06-03T10:20:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T08:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vdd7.com\/?p=29011"},"modified":"2023-07-05T09:50:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T07:50:59","slug":"urgent-mexico-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vdd7.com\/pt\/urgent-mexico-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgente: Elei\u00e7\u00f5es do M\u00e9xico"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Urgent: Mexico Elections<\/h3>\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t
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A major deadline and moment of change is happening<\/strong> as we speak in Mexico<\/strong>. June 6th<\/em><\/strong> will be the most important election outcome in the history of Mexico as democracy when the country will renew its 500-seat lower house of congress,<\/em> pick governors in 15 of its 32 states and elect hundreds of mayors and local legislators. It will be the largest single election in Mexico\u2019s history.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\n\t

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To give a better understanding<\/em><\/strong> of just how divisive this upcoming election is, at least 34 candidates have been murdered<\/strong> since campaigning started on 6 April, while dozens more have been targeted and attacked. Mexican authorities have logged 398 threats or attacks on candidates so far.<\/em> But why?<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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After his election victory in 2018 Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador became the first leftist president in Mexico\u2019s history as a democracy.<\/em><\/strong> The people are disillusioned with the previous presidents and administrations who time and again did not make good on their promises, and many people see President Obrador as the answer to the failures of the past,<\/strong> which brings us to now. Since becoming president, Obrador and his MORENA party (National Regeneration Movement)<\/em> have been making drastic changes to the government which many see as a regression of democracy and a return to the 1970\u2019s where there were very few checks and balances, and the president was the defacto dictator. His power, many believe, is a direct answer to those who have been let down and forgotten by previous administrations, and President Obrador is taking Mexico down a path via his 4th Reformation Plan that looks eerily similar to the moves of late Hugo Chavez of Venezuela<\/em><\/strong> and other populist leaders currently ruling throughout Latin America. Alarm bells are ringing, and the extreme repercussions of this upcoming election are beginning to sink in. The stakes are high, and if MONERA wins a major majority in Congress this midterm election, President Obrador\u2019s 4th Transformation plan will go through in full, which could be a disaster for the country\u2019s economy akin to what is happening in Venezuela.<\/em> That is not to say that the people\u2019s anger of previous administrations is not justified, but to say that the effects on the nation and its people, as nice as the rhetoric sounds, is historically doomed to fail. The answer as per usual is somewhere in the middle.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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MORENA\u2019s<\/strong> main opponents in the 32 states of Mexico, are three parties, PAN<\/strong> (National Action Party)<\/em>, (PRI)<\/em> Institutional Revolutionary Party,<\/strong> and PRD<\/strong> (Democratic Revolution Party)<\/em> which made up the previous presidencies, who are in large part blamed, especially by the poor, for the failures of the past, but remain strong advocates of true representative democracy and legitimate checks and balances<\/em><\/strong>. There is no doubt that this is a fight for the future of Mexico, and the reality is that this election will be decided more than ever at the local level where individual representatives are being sized up by the people, people who are tired of the same old song and dance,<\/em> and who are projected to come out and vote in greater numbers than ever before. Many challenges exist with drug cartels bribing, threatening, and killing candidates, past wrongs from previous administrations creating huge distrust, as well as present worries about the crash course of Obrador\u2019s policies<\/strong> that have moved faster than the opposition can counter.<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\n\t

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