The level of violence is too public. This isn't just about squaring accounts. This is about gang warfare that clearly indicates problems for public control.

247

Average wages in Mexico will eventually rise enough to hold people here. It will take time. But huge labor migrations have been stopped before by economic opportunities. Look at Portugal and Spain.

225

It's over. I'd like to say he has a one-in-10 chance of winning but it really is one-in-a-100 now, and going down.

217

The last election was about the grand struggle for democracy and this motivated a lot of citizens to vote. This drama concluded and this gray democracy is not particularly exciting.

215

Fox didn't meet all the expectations that were inordinately inflated by his team, by him, and by opinion makers.

209

It does sound very Mexican. It will probably play well here.

163

This is really Fox's last chance to make his pitch, speak his piece. And after this he'll just be the guy that's there. ... but everything else will have shifted.

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