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Inside Mexico’s Conservatives’ Flirt with the Far Right

Mexico long resisted the radical right. Now its conservative party is testing what happens when they don't.

Oct 23, 2025
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For the past seven years, Mexico’s opposition has been in free fall. Once a political heavyweight, the conservative National Action Party (PAN) has watched its territorial power collapse from governing 11 of 32 states to just four.

Now, desperate to stop the decline, the party has decided to reinvent itself, and with that, it may be seeding a radical turn in Latinamerican politics.

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