The Plot Against López Obrador
AMLO is going to win the Mexican election, unless elites take him out first.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, presidential candidate of the National Regeneration Movement Party (MORENA), talks during an election campaign Event on April 20, 2018 in Mexico City.Hector Vivas / Getty
Mexico has never had democratic elections, not in a hundred years.
Following a visit to Mexico on the eve of the 1920 elections, Vicente Blasco Ibañez, the popular Spanish journalist and novelist, published El Militarismo mejicano [Mexican Militarism]. In it he wrote, “In Mexico, he who votes knows that he engages in a useless act.”
He was right. The 1920 elections ended in murder. President Venustiano Carranza, who supported Ignacio Bonillas, had his followers beat and murder backers of Álvaro Obregón. Obregón in turn organized a coup and his supporters assassinated Carranza.
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