First, Mexico is dealing with the terrible tragedy that took the life of Secretary of Governacion Blake-Mora. This is the second time in 3 years that the second most powerful man in Mexico has been killed in an accident. (Sec Murillo was killed in 2008 when his plane crashed landing in Mexico City)
As Patrick indicated, everything points to an accident. It appears that the helicopter ran into some heavy clouds and crashed around Mexico City.
Of course, it is natural that some people subscribe to "a conspiracy theory" because of the importance that the Sec of Gobernacion has in the Mexican government.
We also discussed the elections in Michoacan. The PAN candidate, who is Pres Calderon's sister, accused the PRI of making a deal with the drug cartel. It's hard to tell whether this is just partisan talk or a real problem. Nevertheless, we do expect that PAN will run in 2012 saying that the PRI wants to negotiate a "deal" with the cartels.
Finally, we discussed the return of Lopez-Obrador to the national scene. He will be the PRD candidate although no one expects him to get more than 25% of the vote. It's hard to believe that the PRD could not come up with a better candidate. I think that most of us agree that LO really "devalued" himself with that extremely childish performance following the 2006 elections.
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