The Mexico Vote Scandal That’s Helping Its Victim
- Pro-business Anaya, in mudfight with PRI, seems to be winning
- He may carry mainstream hopes into faceoff with leftist leader
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For a presidential hopeful, to be caught on camera referring to top law-enforcement officials as “sons of bitches” wouldn’t normally be a good look.
But Ricardo Anaya has several defenses. To start with, he wasn’t the one who actually said it, at least according to his team (a member of the candidate’s entourage has owned up). Then, and more fundamentally: Why was Anaya being recorded anyway? Why was the surveillance video released to national TV? And why has his name been dragged into a tenuous money-laundering probe in the first place?