Q&A with Cuauhtemoc Cardenas: Mexico and the Rediscovery of South America Pablo Piacentini - Inter Press Service
go to original October 15, 2013

Mexico shouldn’t only be inserted in the North, under the current conditions of dependence, says Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas. (Claudia Diez de Medina/IPS)

ROME - Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, known as the ‘moral leader’ of the Mexican left, said that his country and Central America “focus very much on the North” and should make a shift towards South America and its integration processes, in order to achieve less-dependent, alternative development conditions.

Cárdenas, the founder and leader of Mexico’s Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and a former senator and Mexico City mayor, is the son of Lázaro Cárdenas, the revolutionary general and president of Mexico (1934-1940) who nationalised the oil industry in 1938.

In Rome on an official visit, Cárdenas discussed, in this exclusive interview with IPS, the risks posed by the Enrique Peña Nieto administration’s recent opening up of the oil industry to private capital.

Read the interview at Inter Press Service

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