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Thank you, Mr. Trump. Mexico will be electing a president inimical to American interests. (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Jun 2018
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leftieNanner
(15,179 posts)1. Hey, DSB
Can you provide a little context for this? I don't know any of these candidates and how their positions would impact US-Mexico relations. Kinda wish Vicente Fox could be President again - just for the tweets!
jayschool2013
(2,313 posts)2. Get Ready for a Mexican Left Turn on Foreign Policy
From Foreign Policy
Mexican foreign policy over the last two decades has been increasingly open and engaged with the region and the world. But if Mexicans pick Andrés Manuel López Obrador, popularly known as AMLO, as their next president in less than two weeks, as the polls seem to indicate they will, then the countrys foreign policy could take a sharp turn to the left and relations with the United States could fall into new depths.
López Obrador is likely to name as his foreign minister 73-year-old Héctor Vasconcelos, a former diplomat, a classical pianist, and an international relations dinosaur. The son of a famous writer, José Vasconcelos, and a renowned pianist, Esperanza Cruz, the Harvard University-trained political scientist brings a cultured touch to López Obradors National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), the populist left-wing party that now dominates the Mexican polls. He has written three books on classical music, served as the director of the International Cervantino Festival, and was the first executive secretary of Mexicos National Fund for Culture and Arts. In 1985, he received a King of Spain International Journalism Award for a television series on Mexican culture.
He also represents a direct link to Mexicos revolutionary past. His father who was born in 1882 and was already in his 60s when Vasconcelos himself was born was active in the Mexican revolution of 1910 to 1920 and later became Mexicos secretary of education. By the mid-1940s, when Vasconcelos was born, his fathers household was where aging revolutionaries gathered to talk of the glory days.
For Vasconcelos, with advanced degrees in political science and international relations from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, it was only a matter of time before one of Mexicos most famous sons was pulled into public service. He served as Mexicos consul general in Boston and as ambassador to Denmark, Norway, and Iceland.
Mexican foreign policy over the last two decades has been increasingly open and engaged with the region and the world. But if Mexicans pick Andrés Manuel López Obrador, popularly known as AMLO, as their next president in less than two weeks, as the polls seem to indicate they will, then the countrys foreign policy could take a sharp turn to the left and relations with the United States could fall into new depths.
López Obrador is likely to name as his foreign minister 73-year-old Héctor Vasconcelos, a former diplomat, a classical pianist, and an international relations dinosaur. The son of a famous writer, José Vasconcelos, and a renowned pianist, Esperanza Cruz, the Harvard University-trained political scientist brings a cultured touch to López Obradors National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), the populist left-wing party that now dominates the Mexican polls. He has written three books on classical music, served as the director of the International Cervantino Festival, and was the first executive secretary of Mexicos National Fund for Culture and Arts. In 1985, he received a King of Spain International Journalism Award for a television series on Mexican culture.
He also represents a direct link to Mexicos revolutionary past. His father who was born in 1882 and was already in his 60s when Vasconcelos himself was born was active in the Mexican revolution of 1910 to 1920 and later became Mexicos secretary of education. By the mid-1940s, when Vasconcelos was born, his fathers household was where aging revolutionaries gathered to talk of the glory days.
For Vasconcelos, with advanced degrees in political science and international relations from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, it was only a matter of time before one of Mexicos most famous sons was pulled into public service. He served as Mexicos consul general in Boston and as ambassador to Denmark, Norway, and Iceland.
leftieNanner
(15,179 posts)5. Thanks for the information
This will be very interesting.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,716 posts)3. Vincente Fox was center right.
leftieNanner
(15,179 posts)4. I forgot that part.
I am just enjoying the way he is trolling Herr Twitler.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,716 posts)6. He was center right, not a wingnut.
LeftInTX
(25,607 posts)7. Election on July 1st!
Polls look like they are holding
ETA: Per the constitution, president serves only one term (6 years)...so Pena Nieto is out.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,716 posts)8. Most Mexicans are in the middle
Trump pushed them to Obrador. My Mexican friends aren't thrilled with him but support his strong stance against Trump. Peña Nieto let Trump emasculate him.