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Mexico & Nafta - July 2010 (ISSN 1741-444X)
Crisis point
The national football team's fleeting success in the World Cup (but
traditional inability to play more than four games in the tournament) was the
only bright point in what has become a political and economic miasma. Even
rightwingers in the Mexican media are now openly contemptuous of President
Felipe Calderón and his call for more balanced coverage of the war against
organised crime. The unprecedented assassination, in the final week of the
election campaign of Rodolfo Torre Cantú of the main opposition Partido
Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), the front running candidate in the 4 July
election for governor of the violent border state of Tamaulipas, has demolished
Calderón's claim that the biggest problem Mexico faces is an image
problem.
