Following a fratricidal period for the left with Morales and Arce at loggerheads, right-wing, anti-MAS candidates obtained over 85 per cent of the votes cast in the latest general election, writes FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ

MEXICO’S mid-term elections produced a clear victory for Amlo’s Morena party, although with setbacks in the major cities.
The Mexican and international media have predictably invented a “defeat” for Amlo and his 4T Transformation of the country to benefit workers and the poor, so let’s begin with the basic facts.
All 500 seats in the lower house of Congress (Chamber of Deputies) were being renewed (but not the Senate); 300 by first past the post and 200 proportionally.

DAVID RABY reports on the progressive administration in Mexico, which continues to overcome far-left wreckers on the edges of a teaching union, the murderous violence of the cartels, the ploys of the traditional right wing, and Trump’s provocations


