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Mexico 2018: It’s Not the Economy, Stupid

By Macario Schettino

Despite NAFTA negotiations and the governing party’s focus on jobs, it is the fight against impunity that will define Mexico’s presidential election.

Emerging media consensus is that Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) will likely name Treasury Secretary José Antonio Meade as its candidate for president in 2018. Such a move would serve the unpopular ruling party on two fronts: it would muffle inherent opposition to the PRI as an institution (Meade is not a party member), and it would give them an ideal standard-bearer to carry forward their economic message (Meade has been treasury secretary for two parties and is highly regarded by the country’s business elite).

On this second front, the PRI has a decent case to...

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