Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Consensus

Mexican pols are cutting deals and making things happen, and Alberto Aziz Nassif can't believe his eyes:
All of a sudden, as if we were in another country or in another moment in our history, several of the principal actors coincide on some important public policy projects.

Felipe Calderón presents an anti-crisis [economic] program and his biggest critics affirm that it has the correct focus, only they indicate that the program was maybe a little late [in arriving]. Carlos Salinas supports said program and López Obrado signals that the construction of the new refinery [part of the program] in the country is positive, and he even sees it as a triumph of his movement. At the same time, the senators of all the parties agreed on the approval of energy reform. The deputies approved the Law of Revenues unanimously, a rare word in the Mexican landscape these last few years. Maybe you could call all these decisions the strange days of consensus.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Amazing!! One more time, a repeat of history. As was observed of Thomas More as his appointment with the scaffold approached, how much his mind became focused. Maybe they all decided not to sink together, not to bring their country down around all of them. Maybe.