Merino Sees Trouble

Mauricio Merino isn't fooled by the hubbub surrounding Jesús Ortega's flying start to his PRD presidency: the party has deep problems that go well beyond the man leading it.

Jesús Ortega is condemned to invoke unity a thousand times, because after the pitched battle that brought him to the presidency of the PRD, it's no longer possible to inject new reasons to divide the party. But I doubt very much that the groups that make up the party can --or even should-- arrive together to the elections of 2009, much less those of 2012.

What identifies the currents that integrate the PRD isn't a shared ideology or even common vision of the country that they want. Their seal of identity is, more accurately, the way they practice politics...