Jo Tuckman, author of the excellent book Mexico: Democracy Interrupted, wrote an article for the Guardian yesterday called “Mexico’s Greens: pro-death penalty, allegedly corrupt – and not very green.”
She starts the piece by noting that
(1) Greens traditionally have had to fight the stereotype that they are tree-hugging idealists that will never make much a mark in the rough and tumble political world.
and
(2) This is not a problem for the Mexican Greens, a.k.a The “False Greens”
Here are some reasons why:
a. “The party have regularly been accused of corruption, selling political favours – and of showing no interest in environmental issues. In 2009, the party ran an election campaign calling for the return of the death penalty. Of the infamous 2009 campaign slogan calling for “Death to Kidnappers”, he said: “It is true that the European Greens would never support the death penalty, but they don’t…
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