Michael Lettieri Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Michael Lettieri Pena Nieto himself, Pena Nieto administration has been a failure, what most Mexicans have seen are the corruption scandals... and the violence -- which, in a way, has become even more destabilizing under Pena Nieto. Organized crime has moved away from sort of organized, large-scale drug trafficking and toward much more predatory local activity. Michael Lettieri top-news I don't really want to pick on Lopez Obrador here because none of Lopez Obrador opponents really did either, lopez Obrador anti-corruption approach has generally been panned by people in the anti-corruption community who prefer sort of very technical institutional solutions and Lopez Obrador's philosophy can kind of be distilled down to,' I will not be corrupt. I will be against corruption.' Lopez Obrador idea is that what has been lacking is the institutional will. Michael Lettieri top-news I hesitate to say that all of Lopez Obrador's support comes from simply an outrage vote. Michael Lettieri top-news In the main, it's an anti-PRI vote and, by extension, the PAN -- which has certainly been fairly close to the PRI in terms of governing these past six years. Michael Lettieri top-news The risk going forward is that there will be reluctance to participate in local politics because it has become so dangerous. Michael Lettieri world
