Is a Woman President ‘Macho’ Enough for Mexico?
Louis E.V. Nevaer - New America Media – Thursday, 17 November 2011 (originally published 14 Nov)
Josefina Vazquez-Mota, a popular lawmaker for the ruling National Action Party. Image: L. Nevaer
MERIDA, Mexico – In less than nine months, Mexicans will go to the polls to elect a new president, and already the tantalizing question has set social media here all abuzz: Is Mexico ready to elect a woman?
Mexico has had a black president in Vicente Guerrero, while Native Americans Benito Juarez and Porfirio Diaz also held that post. Now, Josefina Vazquez-Mota, a popular lawmaker for the ruling National Action Party, known as PAN, is consolidating her standing as a favorite to win the nomination.
Conventional wisdom says the Institutional Ruling Party, or PRI, is poised to return to power after being ousted in 2000, when Vicente Fox was elected. The handsome, dashing and charismatic Enrique Peña Nieto, the governor of Mexico State, is expected to be the PRI’s nominee . . .
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