Modern Leadership

Ricardo Raphael asks what's going on with Mexican leadership: 

Mexicans, fortunately, broke the priísta formula for building leadership. With the recent transition, we resolved to leave behind a good part of the authoritarian rules and hierarchies that previously guaranteed loyalty and submission before the powerful. 

Nevertheless, we haven't managed to substitute the earlier system. 

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With his erratic leadership of the country Vicente Fox Quesada was the one who inaugurated the last crisis of political leadership in Mexico. The ex-president dedicated a lot of effort to carving out an attractive media figure, a mix of virile attributes, unblinking stances, and short but effective phrases. 

Emulating perhaps the silver screen figure of Pedro Infante, the Mexicans ended up getting a naive but generous presidency, daring but inconsistent, valiant but vain. All of that was very evident in the media. 

Fox's charisma simultaneously lacked the principal characteristic necessary in a leader: the capacity to produce the promised change. He didn't have a compass that told him the places where he had to direct the energies unleashed by political change. 

Wondering what Mexico would be like if the first opposition president was a more serious, capable politician makes an interesting and frustrating daydream.