Calderón further politicises Mexico’s Informe
Mexico’s interior minister, José Francisco Blake Mora, delivered the document containing President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa’s IV Informe (state of the union) to congress on 1 September. Calderón has yet to deliver an Informe in person: the closest he has come was in 2007 when he came to congress, which was boycotted by the left-wing opposition, before delivering the traditional Informe speech before an invited audience and to the TV cameras a day later from the national palace. Ever since then, the annual Informe has become more of a publicity vehicle for the presidency than a symbol, as it is in the US, of the executive and legislature working together for the common good.










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