Saddling up for the trail to Los Pinos
Can anyone stop Enrique Peña Nieto (pictured, second from left) restoring the PRI to power next year?
THE election is not until July of next year, but the beating of a party activist into a coma on January 12th, apparently by a rival party's mob, signalled the start of what will be a long, rough campaign for the presidency of Mexico. Candidates are jostling for party nominations, and lieutenants are preparing for the election of six governors this year, the first of them in Guerrero state on January 30th. Already the main question is whether anyone can prevent the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled Mexico as a one-party state for seven decades until 2000, from returning to Los Pinos, the presidential residence.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline "Saddling up for the trail to Los Pinos"
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