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Weekly Report - 09 October 2014 (WR-14-40)

MEXICO: PRD gets stuck in a Guerrero trap

It was not the most auspicious of beginnings. In the early hours of 5 October Carlos Navarrete Ruiz was elected by a party congress as the new president of Mexico’s main left-wing opposition party, the Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) after his moderate and modernising internal grouping, Nueva Izquierda (also known as ‘los chuchos’) swept internal party elections with 72.9% of the vote. His job is to take the PRD forward into the future, with an eye on the 2015 mid-term elections and the 2018 presidential race. But hardly had he taken office than the PRD found itself tainted by dark and tragic events: the massacre of students in Iguala, a small town in the impoverished state of Guerrero.

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