Was A Vote To Recall the PRI a Vote For Vicente Fox?

["Julio Huato" <juliohuato@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tony Abdo <gojack10@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The worst thing about the Greens Supporting a Republican funded recall of a
> Democratic Party governor only months after his election, is that it
> weakens the argument that they are nothing more than spoilers that help
> elect Republicans.     It dramatically reduces their ability to pose as a
> real alternative to anything in the 2004 elections.      It is instructive
> to look at the Greens conduct in Mexico to examine how a similar Green
> electoral maneuver turned out.

I don't think it is instructive.  I think it is naive or tendentious.  Just
because there's a "Green" Party in Mexico doesn't mean that it is in any
meaningful way similar to the Green parties in Germany or the U.S.  The
history of each political formation, the conditions in each country, etc.
are very different.

The Green party in Mexico is a creature of the (PRI) José López Portillo
administration in the late 1970s and early 1980s.  JLP gave money to a group
of yuppies in the upper-middle class and rich neighborhoods in southern
Mexico City so that they could rapidly form a "political party" to diminish
the representation of the Left in the re-negotiation of the electoral
reform.

Stupid they are not.  In the 1987 presidential elections, they changed ships
and decided to support Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas as they needed to grab a certain
share of seats in Congress to survive and the PRI was taking them for
granted.  As the electoral fraud that deprived Cárdenas of the presidency
became apparent and the protests mounted, the PV was quickly bought off by
the PRI again -- to weaken the movement against the fraud.  As we speak, the
Green party remains firmly under the control of a yuppie mafia, whose
greenness comes more from the color of a dollar bill than from any genuine
ecological consciousness or activism.

Are they now perhaps concerned about motives of political survival so that
-- in spite of themselves -- they do good things?  I would not think so, but
they do try to keep their quotas.  Why?  Because "national" political
parties in Mexico with a certain representation receive substantial public
cash.  Backstabbers a la Fouché.  Do you know where their environmentalism
has brought them lately?  To bash China -- because they "mistreat animals"
in that country!  I'm serious.  It is an organization corrupted to the very
marrow.  I guess one could say that they are not up for sale to anyone --
but only to the highest bidder.  If their apparent moves were not enough,
their inside stinky origins and trajectory have been duly documented by the
media; in particular, by the magazine Proceso.

In brief, the political moves of the Green party in Mexico are driven by a
completely different $et of motives than those driving the Greens in
California or New York.  Critics of the Green party's participation in the
recall in California need more serious arguments.

Julio

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