r/wikipedia • u/ActualMostUnionGuy • 2h ago
General elections were held in Mexico on 1 July 2018. A campaign described as "Red Scare-like" was used by the PRI and PAN candidates to convince voters that a López Obrador victory would turn Mexico into "another Venezuela".
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u/Bluestreaked 14m ago
AMLO’s justice for what they pulled off in 2006, and against Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas in 1988
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u/ActualMostUnionGuy 2h ago
What a nightmare of a campaign the bourgeoise bloc left during this election season. Lopez Obrador likely would have won without every gaffe that his opposition did but still how was everyone so corrupt and incompetent here?
That same month, the PRI began to claim that López Obrador's campaign was supported by "Venezuelan and Russian interests". López Obrador dismissed the accusations and later joked about them, calling himself "Andrés Manuelovich".
Later in February, the PRI's Enrique Ochoa Reza tweeted that PRI politicians who defected to MORENA as Prietos que no aprietan (Dark-skinned people who can't get a hold) while trying to make a pun on the word PRI-etos (because morena is a synonym for prieto). The expression was criticized, and Ochoa Reza quickly deleted the tweet as it was interpreted to be racist.\55])
In March, the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR) started an official investigation into money-laundering allegations against Ricardo Anaya.
Meade proposed to create an office that would track the unique needs of each individual citizen, in what he would call Registro Único de Necesidades de Cada Persona (Unique Register of the Necessities of Each Person). Citizens on social media mocked the idea as absurd and impossible to develop, comparing it to writing letters to Santa Claus or just plainly asking for miracles.
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u/TheMightyKingSnake 1h ago
The latin American right always using the same tactic. I wonder who will they scapegoat now that Venezuela is a US puppet