During my visits to Mexico it’s obvious how fed up Mexicans are with their current system and how contemptuous they are toward all political parties. President Pena Nieto has been reduced to the punchline of jokes. It was hoped that when PAN broke the PRI monopoly 15 years ago things would change but nothing changed.
The “5 families” in Mexico City won’t allow it.
Now imagine a Mexico where they couldn’t use the USA as their poverty “safety valve”.
The brief respite with PAN didn't result in much change, because the entire system is based on top-down patronage (which we would call corruption, when we care at all), and the Mexican constitution, that is, the current one, limits the president to one six year term. That translates as, steal as much for you and your downline as possible in six years. Having the right patron means, you move up at the end of the six years, but ultimately, there's only so much room at the top. Thanks jalisco555.
Turned out PAN’s plan for Mexican prosperity was to send tens of millions of their underclass to the USA. Utterly despicable.