For the first time in 80 years, two Mexican states along the Texas border have rejected the Mexican ruling party (el PRI) and decided to cast their votes for new representation from the leading opposition, el PAN.
And that's not all.
Early results from gubernatorial races in 12 of Mexico's 31 states on Monday showed Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, heading for defeat in seven of them, a result far worse than most polls had forecast.
Projected losses included two oil-rich strongholds in the Gulf of Mexico, Veracruz and neighboring Tamaulipas, both of which have been plagued by gang violence for years, as well as Quintana Roo, home to Mexico's top tourist destination Cancun. All three have been run by the PRI for over eight decades.
The opposition center-right National Action Party (PAN) was poised to be the main beneficiary, taking the lead in seven states, three of them in alliance with the center-left Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).
irst time in history, the voters of the border states of Tamaulipas and Chihuahua that border Texas have rejected the tradition hold on power that the PRI has exercised in the regoin.
PAN leader Ricardo Anaya chastised the PRI for a surge in kidnappings in Tamaulipas and noted that two of the party's former state governors are wanted by U.S. prosecutors for alleged ties to drug gangs. One of the men, Eugenio Hernandez, was pictured freely casting his vote on Sunday.
Four days before the elections for Tamaulipas governor, a national magazine published documentation that Baltazar Hinojosa, the PRI candidate, was under investigation for money laundering by the U.S. Dept. of Treasury and the Department of Homeland Security.
Hinojosa went down to defeat by Francisco Javier Garcia Cabeza de Vaca of the PAN-led opposition. Both men had accused each other of links to drug trafficking mafias.
3 comments:
I wonder if Baltazar and his family came to Brownsville to cry their defeat.
Cabeza de Vaca is no different than Baltazar, the difference is that he is from Reynosa and now that he is the next governor all the activity will move to Reynosa/Mcallen area.
Our mayor now has to become buddy with a PRI mayor of Matamoros.
PAN and PRI are both translated as "crooked Mexican's".
the big rata defeated the little rata...
Or in the words of The Who, "meet the new boss, same as the old boss!"
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