[StJacques]

Texan5;

Encinas can be removed because he was not elected by popular vote but by legislative action (he became Head of Government of the DF after Lopez Obrador stepped down to run for the presidency). I don't know all the particulars of how that process works, but I did post a link to a Spanish article on the Mexican web site El Universal from early last week in which the PRI and PAN were discussing the possibility of removing him. Encinas is actually doing tremendous harm to the very people whose interests he is supposed to protect. It truly is an outrage, but then my comment on that is "when did the left ever really care about anyone"?

I'm not a cynic, but I do have a genuine bias against the left which I admit openly.

[mjolnir]

I agree that the left at its core loves "the people" because they serve as mascots, symbols and martyrs for its various causes, but hates actual human individuals, which it sees as having no use outside of The Cause and as expendable tools for The Cause, whatever form the cause is taking this week.

At the same time, the Left is excellent at public relations coming out of situations like this--- think of the current situation in the Middle East, in which Hezbollah has become in the eyes of media elites little more than a humanitarian non-profit welfare service that arms itself because it has to against the big bad disproportionate Israelis, or the sympathetic portrayal of rioters at the 1968 Democratic Convention.

It seems as though the PRD, AMLO and Encinas are losing the PR war right now, but this move--- forcing the authorities to be forceful-- has worked so many times (at last in the U.S.) that I have to worry it'll work again.