[Tammy8]

He is of Spanish descent, fairly light skinned so acceptable to the upper class elites of Mexico. He is acceptable to the cartels or he would not have survived the election. He is a Socialist but Mexico has leaned that way all along.

If he bucks the system- which he would have to do in order to actually do anything for the poor it will get interesting in a hurry. If he actually tries to do anything about crime he will be assassinated.

I imagine he is another figurehead and will do very little but talk.

[vette6387]

All you write is very true. It hasn't really been any different Presidente after Presidente ever since Mexico became a “country!” Thirty years ago when I was a member of the California Republican Assembly, I commented at a local meeting that the solution at that time was for the US to invade Mexico and run it like we did in Germany and Japan after WWII. My comment was not well received, but in hindsight, it would have been the cheapest solution to the problem. Now, that will never happen, and our only viable solution is to prevent any illegal migration from the south of us. And it's not just Mexico, or even Central America. there are some 600 milion people who live between our southern border and Tierra del Fuego. They can't all come here, but they will try. There isn't one single country to the south of us that hasn't from time to time had a revolt, and none of them are what you would call “stable democracies.” If we don't act now, it is just a matter of time until we end up just like all the rest of the Western Hemisphere, and that includes those RATs in Canada with their “allegiance” to The Queen.