Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Jul 8 10:49:04 PDT 2000


nathan.newman at yale.edu wrote:


>As I understand it, Fox was not a simple choice of the rightwing guard
>in PAN. He built a populist support network for himself and essentially
>forced himself on the party looking for a win. Not that he is not
>neoliberal in a number of areas, but given the ideological bankruptcy of
>the PRI, that could be an improvement.
>
>And the fact that Jorge Castenada is advising his campaign shows that
>some interesting political cross-overs are driving his support.

Yup, but bet you the "progressives" end up getting the short end of the stick.

Doug



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