The suits v the street

“MEXICAN presidents used to go to Congress on September 1st waving at the people in the streets like Stalin passing through Red Square. Soon they’ll be addressing the nation from a bunker.” So Lorenzo Meyer, a leftist Mexican historian, satirised Enrique Peña Nieto’s first state-of-the-nation address on September 2nd. The president delivered it not to a full house of Congress, as used to be common, nor in the National Palace. Instead—a day later than originally scheduled—he addressed a select audience under a canopy outside his home. From there his televised message was broadcast nationwide.