First, the election. Then, the coup. That’s the way it’s done in a “democracy”, correct?
Richard Grabman has interesting (and funny) post-election inside baseball from Mexico’s midterms at The Mex Files.
Mexico is in deep deep shit... “recession”…and Calderon has done little to effectively address the worsening situation.
Read this and this from recently released reports from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Note how unemployment has more than doubled since Calderon took office. No doubting that Sunday’s elections were a referendum on Calderon and his policies–one that he and his PAN party lost by a greater margin than predicted.
In Honduras– an economic basketcase even before the coup last Sunday– the situation is more dire than what is being endured by their neighbors to the north.
Al Giordano and The Narco News team are performing non-stop coverage from that blighted country.
The dramas in Honduras and yesterday’s elections in Mexico are harbingers of more chaotic and hard times to come in the region…times that may serve transnational organized crime rather well.
