Jose Zambramo Grijalva, president of the Partido de Revolucion Democratica (PRD) told supporters in San Lazaro Wednesday that the sudden departure from the Mexican left's 2012 electoral alliance of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, changes nothing as the PRD prepares for 2013 elections and the 2015 midterm elections.Despite his words of encouragement, Mexico's leftists parties are facing a political crisis and a rancorous fight in the Chamber of Deputies over the impeachment of nine members of Mexico's electoral tribunal.
Rantburg.com correspondent Chris Covert examines the politics surrounding Lopez Obrador's departure and the fate of Mexico's left.
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