Enrique Peña Nieto

[[File:Enrique Pena Nieto 2.jpg|thumb|165px|Good looking but nothing’s cooking.]]
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'''Enrique Peña Nieto''' {{lived|1966}} is the former president of [[Mexico]] (2012–2016) and is a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (an [[authoritarian]] centrist party that controlled Mexico from 1929 to 2000). He previously served as the governor of the state of Mexico (EdoMex).

Peña Nieto is a [[neoliberal]] [[centrist]], and was part of the wave of world leaders of western countries who seemed sensible but had shallow and useless policies and [[Virtue signalling|virtue signaled]] often instead of engaging in [[leftist]] [[populism]]. An example of leaders to compare him to would be [[Emmanuel Macron]] in [[France]] and [[Justin Trudeau]] in [[Canada]], and these leaders share many similarities with Nieto (including their controversies in their own countries).<ref>[https://nacla.org/news/2016/12/23/mexico-ending-neoliberal-nightmare Mexico: Ending the Neoliberal Nightmare?] nacla</ref>

==Presidency==
Even before his presidency, Peña Nieto was an infamous figure in Mexican politics. As governor his tenure was marked by the lowest approval for a Mexican president, because of his handling of rising murder rates in the state, the San Salvador Atenco civil riot, and various public health issues that he presided over.

He continued with his incompetence, causing awful policies to run rampant, beginning with massive drops of Mexican [[Fossil fuel|oil]] prices that prevented any successful policy implementations, and he also was accused of making Mexican [[media]] [[bias]]ed in his favor during his tenure.<ref>[https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2012/jun/10/mexicans-protest-against-media-bias Mexicans protest against ‘media bias’] The Guardian</ref> Another bizarre case was convicted drug lord {{wpl|El Chapo|El Chapo’s}} escape from [[prison]], blamed on Peña Nieto’s incompetence to keep the prisons secure, and was also claimed by Chapo himself that Peña Nieto was bribed by him with millions of dollars for his release.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46872414 El Chapo 'paid $100m bribe to former Mexican president Peña Nieto'] BBC</ref>

==Why he’s so hated==
Peña Nieto has gained an extremely (justified) unpopular status due to his political incompetence in government ranging from false promises to crack down on drug cartels which were never followed up (ironically mirroring Trump’s 2016 campaign promises to also stop drug cartels, which also did not come through). He’s also handled Mexico’s [[education]] system and economy abysmally, causing the [[economy]] to fail and dropping the value of the Mexican peso, increasing inflation and poverty amongst the Mexican middle class and lower class.<ref>[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna640611 Why Is Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto So Unpopular?] NBC News</ref>

He also [[Plagiarism|plagiarized]] his thesis for his law degree that he submitted to Panamerican University directly from other writers, including another former Mexican president (Miguel de la Madrid) and none were credited nor mentioned them when he published the stolen works.<ref>[https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/22/mexico-president-enrique-pena-nieto-plagiarized-thesis-law-degree Why Is Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto So Unpopular?] The Guardian</ref><ref>[https://ru.dgb.unam.mx/bitstream/20.500.14330/TES01000156238/3/0156238.pdf ''El presidencialismo mexicano y Alvaro Obregón''] by Enrique Peña Nieto (1991) Universidad Panamericana.</ref>

==The bare minimum==
Although the amount of good he did barely outweighs his flaws, Peña Nieto has signed the multilateral Pact for Mexico, which prevented infighting within his party, and also led to more legislation in the government. <ref>[https://www.fpri.org/article/2013/10/mexican-president-pena-nietos-time-of-troubles/ Mexican President Peña Nieto's "Time of Troubles"] fpri</ref>

And when you think about it, he united Mexicans from across the political spectrum just from his sheer shittiness.{{cn|joke}}

==See also==
*[[Emmanuel Macron]], his French counterpart.
*[[Justin Trudeau]], his Canadian counterpart.
*[[Barack Obama]], his American counterpart (and the only one who's still popular in his own country).

==References==
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