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In 2000, Mexico's long invincible Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) lost the presidential election to Vicente Fox of the National Action Party (PAN). The ensuing changeover—after 71 years of PRI dominance—was hailed as the beginning of a new era of hope for Mexico. Yet the promises of the PAN victory were not consolidated. In this vivid account of Mexico's recent history, a journalist with extensive reporting experience investigates the nation's young democracy, its shortcomings and achievements, and why the PRI is favored to retake the presidency in 2012.
Jo Tuckman reports on the murky, terrifying world of Mexico's drug wars, the counterproductive government strategy, and the impact of U.S. policies. She describes the reluctance and inability of politicians to seriously tackle rampant corruption, environmental degradation, pervasive poverty, and acute inequality. To make matters worse, the influence of non-elected interest groups has grown and public trust in almost all institutions—including the Catholic church—is fading. The pressure valve once presented by emigration is also closing. Even so, there are positive signs: the critical media cannot be easily controlled, and small but determined citizen groups notch up significant, if partial, victories for accountability. While Mexico faces complex challenges that can often seem insurmountable, Tuckman concludes, the unflagging vitality and imagination of many in Mexico inspire hope for a better future.
- Sales Rank: #322997 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-06-27
- Released on: 2012-06-27
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
“An insightful firsthand examination of Mexico from 2000 to the present. . . An important investigation of Mexico's recent political, economic and social past—and its possibilities for the future.”—Kirkus Reviews
(Kirkus Reviews)
About the Author
Jo Tuckman is a Mexico-based foreign correspondent who reports for The Guardian, among many other publications on both sides of the Atlantic. She lives in Mexico City.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
An Excellent, If A Bit Too Jaundiced, Account
By Michael Agosta
Ms. Tuckman has produced a very readable, and thorough, account of Mexican politics since the fall of the PRI Dictatorship in Mexico in 2000. She covers the challenges facing the new democracy up until the eve of PRI's return to power with the election of Pena Nieto.
She covers the drug wars, the role of crony capitalism and bribes and the church.
Serious observers of Mexico may find her tone a bit TOO jaundiced. Mexico's drug wars are cooling, if only moderately, and the term "state capture" doesn't apply quite as well as it might have 2 or 3 years ago. That said, it's a well-written account with a lot of detail. If you want to have a much deeper understanding of the US's southern neighbor, this is a good place to start.
One minor quibble: as with most books, this tome would have enefitted from a map showing the Mexican states. I know Mexico quite well, but most readers will not. Understanding the drug cartels is far easier when the reader has a sense of the geographies involved in the turf wars.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Best journalistic survey since Riding’s Distant Neighbors
By Andrew Paxman
Every several years a foreign correspondent takes the pulse of contemporary Mexico, chiefly for the benefit of North American readers. High-profile examples include Andrés Oppenheimer’s Bordering on Chaos (1996) and Julia Preston & Sam Dillon’s Opening Mexico (2004), but none have attained the authority of Alan Riding’s still-in-print Distant Neighbors (1985). Mexico: Democracy Interrupted, by Jo Tuckman of The Guardian, is the best survey since Riding’s.
Tuckman arrived in Mexico in 2000 to see the PRI swept from power after 71 uninterrupted years. Her aim is to gauge how far the right-of-center PAN fulfilled the hope of democracy long-sought by a majority of the Mexican people and long-delayed by the “soft authoritarianism” and electoral fraud of the PRI. As her title implies, twelve years of PAN rule largely failed to deliver. On some fronts, things stagnated: poverty declined under Vicente Fox (2000-06) but rebounded, income-wise, under Felipe Calderón (2006-12); environmental policy, glib of promise, achieved next to nothing; political corruption gained more attention from a freer press but continued to be practiced and tolerated by the PAN, the PRI, and the left-wing PRD.
On other fronts the balance was negative, especially the “war on drugs” begun by Calderón. This naive initiative has not only resulted in tens of thousands dead – a substantial minority innocent bystanders – but also caused untold damage to the social fabric. Another negative is the rise of “de facto powers”: above all, state governors and business elites. These exploited a weakening of the presidency, which no longer commanded a push-button congress, and persistently fragile regulators and judiciaries.
The book is not, however, another exercise in apocalyptic pessimism, of the kind that mars Oppenheimer’s Bordering and saturates El Monstruo by the late John Ross (both of them riveting, all the same). Tuckman shows a remarkable even-handedness, refusing to vilify national leaders, and a healthy suspicion of the conspiracy theories to which Mexico is prone (an understandable trait given its history of propagandistic media). She fluidly interweaves a variety of angles and voices, from high politics and think tanks, to historical antecedents, to grass-roots organizing and the inhabitants of cinderblock homes. In the latter respect she improves on Riding, whose perspective was top-down.
Another pleasure is Tuckman’s lucid language and her ability to cap analysis with a deft turn-of-phrase. Army incompetence in cartel-torn Juárez, witnessed first-hand, is summed up as “riding around with lots of fire power and not much clue about what was going on, let alone how to prevent it happening” (29). Mexico’s hard-working poor find they have to “hold off the stream of structurally-rooted bad luck that haunts them” (192).
A couple of threads could have used more attention. State governors are termed feudal lords, but their power-mongering goes largely unexamined, as does their famed self-enrichment. Democratic immaturity is often attached to insufficient linkage between the parties and the people, but what such links might look like is rarely illustrated; comparative analysis with other nations might help. Historical errors, frequent in journalistic accounts, are relatively few, although the repeated reference to President Cárdenas (1934-40) as the architect of PRI rule ignores the equally important role of his predecessor Calles.
As a response to the common notion that, in 2000, Mexico “became a democracy,” Democracy Interrupted is a reality check. It argues that democracy cannot be defined by a free and fair ballot alone. It raises useful questions about Mexico’s political processes (and implicitly about Enrique Peña Nieto, soon to become president when the book was in completion). It shows sympathy for the have-nots, without elevating them to saintliness the way “subaltern studies” can do in academic texts. It evinces an ear for the telling quote yet suggests where opinions seem self-serving. Modest enough to admit when a trend is too opaque or too early for judgment, probing but not cynical, Tuckman is an authoritative and judicious guide.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent introduction to contemporary Mexico and its politics
By John R Brundage
Jo Tuckman is a British journalist who has been in Mexico for some 10 years. She writes clearly and insightfully about the many sides of Mexican political life and the problems that the country faces.
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