"a mix of ‘70s style resource nationalism and anti-elite posturing in public, layered over a willingness to accommodate elites behind the scenes." -- Why does that sound so familiar?
‘On the security front, despite Mexico’s sky-high crime rate, he champions a policy of “hugs not bullets,” requiring the army and national guard to avoid direct confrontation with organized crime.’ This seems like an indirect endorsement of the Calderón approach of waging war on the cartels, which…didn’t go so well and was the starting point of the current violence.
"a mix of ‘70s style resource nationalism and anti-elite posturing in public, layered over a willingness to accommodate elites behind the scenes." -- Why does that sound so familiar?
‘On the security front, despite Mexico’s sky-high crime rate, he champions a policy of “hugs not bullets,” requiring the army and national guard to avoid direct confrontation with organized crime.’ This seems like an indirect endorsement of the Calderón approach of waging war on the cartels, which…didn’t go so well and was the starting point of the current violence.
Isn’t being “tough on crime” a stereotypically populist position, anyway?