Leftist Democratic Revolution Party Woes Deepen After Leader Quits The News | |
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Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, the son of the late President Lazaro Cardenas who nationalized Mexico's oil industry in 1938, speaks during a march against the energy reform bill at the Angel of Independence monument in Mexico City. (Associated Press/Marco Ugarte)
MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s left faces huge problems following the resignation of former presidential candidate Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, a pillar of progressive politics and son of the revered president who nationalized the oil industry.
In 1989, Cárdenas founded the Democratic Revolution Party, known as the PRD. On Wednesday he said he is not only leaving the PRD, but party politics entirely.
“I think that, with this, my life in a party is over ... I’m not going to any other political party,” Cárdenas said in a radio interview, adding that he would continue to work on his favorite cause, reversing recent government reforms that opened the state-run oil sector to private investment and concessions.
Cárdenas was central to the very foundation of the party, which was born out of a political coalition that formed to support his 1988 presidential campaign in an attempt to topple the party that had then ruled Mexico for nearly 60 years. Millions of Mexicans believe he won that election, but was cheated by fraud.
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