Is Mexico's President Enrique Pena the Most Interesting Man in the World? Alexa M. Poteet - The National Interest
go to original April 19, 2014

Angelica Rivera was the 'face' behind the campaign to launch PRI candidate Peña Nieto. (Associated Press)

His coif is the envy of Mitt Romney. He’s so handsome his soap-star wife is known as “the seagull.” He managed to get elected president of the tenth-largest economy in the world on the slogan “because you know me.”

Is he the most interesting man in the world? Perhaps. He is Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto, and he is certainly a man of contradictions.

“Do you agree,” Peña Nieto told an LA Times reporter recently, “that when there's tension and an obsession to want to hit the ball is when you hit it worst? You have to be loose.”

Loose is not an unfair description of the Mexican president. The most powerful man in Mexico has an entire website devoted to counting the number of days since his last public gaffe - the more memorable include saying that he “obviously” did not know the price of tortillas because he is “not a housewife,” an inability to correctly recall the dates of national holidays and repeatedly failing to pronounce Yucatan properly. Indeed, the ticker between pendejadas rarely gets beyond seven days. He has his own comprehensive entry on knowyourmeme.com, which mocks various foot-in-mouth-isms, including the time he was unable to correctly name a book that influenced his life, save the bible. An internet meme co-opting a Mexican library’s ad campaign surfaced shortly after: No le regales tu voto a Peña Nieto, mejor regalale un libro. Don’t give your vote to Peña Nieto, it’s better to give him a book.

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