Mexico's Left Wages Campaign to Derail President Pena Nieto's Agenda Richard Fausset - The Los Angeles Times
go to original September 8, 2013

Hundreds of teachers block a road to the Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City last week. The protest took place after the Mexican Senate passed the major education reform proposed by the president. (Jose Mendez/European Pressphoto Agency)

MEXICO CITY — They have taken to the streets by the thousands, generating headlines and dramatically disrupting the day-to-day rhythms of the hemisphere's largest city.

But do the Mexicans opposing the government's proposed reforms have any real political stroke?

That is the question dogging the forces of the Mexican left. They hope that a wave of demonstrations will derail President Enrique Peña Nieto's ambitious policy agenda, which includes what he calls "transformational" changes to the federal tax structure, the education system and the state-run oil company.

The president's critics doubt his proposals will do much to help them financially, educationally or otherwise, and are more likely to hurt them and their families. It does not help that Peña Nieto belongs to a party with a storied history of promising reform while allowing its leaders to benefit from a corrupt status quo.

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