Telling Desperate Lies

After the acrimonious defeat of the so called independent candidates last Sunday on Mexico´s state elections, it was a little bit confusing to read on Milenio newspaper ex Chancellor Jorge Castañeda suddenly change his discourse on independent candidates, he declined to talk about the performance of this type of candidates, the biggest losers on the polls, apparently the performance of Jaime Rodriguez on Nuevo León prompted voters to discard independent candidates as an viable option, Castañeda a very wise man, quickly turned his speech onto basic income, a little populist tale about giving a fixed basic income to the population, it seems that Castañeda is using a new strategy, closer to that of Chief of CDMX Miguel Angel Mancera, who has recently proposed an increase on minimum wage, it´s deceptive to read Castañeda changing course and now taking populist proposals as his new flag, he even names The Economist, I guess Castañeda thinks that no one reads The Economist, in case he imagined that, he is wrong, and The Economist is considering not viable to apply basic income under “normal” circumstances, considering only for a future scenario in which employment disappears under the advance of very sophisticated technology, shame on you Mr. Castañeda, your chances of becoming a competent independent candidate are simply falling apart.