>From a Financial Times article sent by Marvin Gandall
> Finally, there is a sense in which even the private sector believes his
> ideology could help him. Mr Fox tried to raise taxes and privatise the
> energy network from the political right. But many in Mexico believe that a
> politician of the opposite stripe might be more successful, pointing to the
> progress made elsewhere in Latin America by left-leaning politicians. "The
> Lula effect will be here big time," says one businessman. "By that, I mean
> the belief that only someone from the left can carry out some of the
> reforms. Only Nixon could approach China."
>
I don't understand how you can be friendly to social democracy while at the same time supplying a perfect example of how social democrats in power function. They trade on their leftist credentials to ease the introduction of neoliberal policies that traditional rightists would have a harder time implementing because they lack such credentials. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20050604/0d47f60a/attachment.htm>