Letter never published but today
Written: July 20, 2006 México will never reach the status of a developed country. It’s not a matter of political elections, it’s a matter of culture; it’s not a matter of elections’ day, it’s a matter of History. Six years ago, on July 4, 2000, I cheered in a letter to the Times the ascension to power of Vicente Fox Quesada, National Action Party’s (PAN) candidate, to realize, at the end, he had committed the same kind of corruption that the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in its 71-year ruling regime: out-of-law economic and material privileges for him and some of his closest collaborators, abuse of power from his wife, severe corruption scandals surrounding the First Lady’s sons, and during the past several months, usage of government’s social programs in favour of the PAN official presidential candidate, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, together with hundreds of hours in the media promoting him and trash-talking against his political adversary, Democratic Revolution Party’s (PRD) A...