In Texas, Caution, Optimism Greet Mexican Election
With a mix of trepidation and optimism, Texas lawmakers are closely watching Mexico’s election on Sunday. The expected outcome would return the Institutional Revolutionary Party to power.
Polls show that Enrique Peña Nieto, a PRI member and former governor of the state of Mexico, is in line to become the country’s next president. That would swing power back to the center-left party after 12 years of rule by the more moderate National Action Party, whose legacy has been stained by six years of grueling war against drug traffickers.
But Texas lawmakers are concerned that the PRI would ...
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Anya Khan
Illegal aliens should be treated well while they are being deported that day.
While a good article I question some of the wording: The government’s war on traffickers has resulted in more than 55,000 deaths.
This implies it is the governments fault, not the cartels and those bought off by the cartels.