Time&rsquo;s Pe&ntilde;a Nieto &lsquo;Saving Mexico&rsquo; Cover Sparks Confusion, Outrage

Mexicans respond mockingly to ridiculous Time Magazine cover story

Under the banner of &ldquo;Saving Mexico,&rdquo; Time Magazine has put Enrique Pe&ntilde;a Nieto on the cover of its February 24 international edition.

Many who first saw the cover this morning responded with, &ldquo;Is this a joke?&rdquo; When people realized it wasn&rsquo;t, it unleashed a backlash in Mexico and from Mexicans throughout the world toward Time and the cover story&rsquo;s author, Michael Crowley.

&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the hot new emerging market. But can President Pe&ntilde;a Nieto and his team of reformers really turn their country around?&rdquo;, asks Time. The answer: not with Pe&ntilde;a Nieto. And definitely not by further liberalizing Mexico&rsquo;s natural resources.

The &ldquo;Mexico Moment&rdquo; meme is old and tired. Pushing Mexico as the &ldquo;hot new emerging market&rdquo; confirms what many predicted would happen with Pe&ntilde;a Nieto&rsquo;s privatization of PEMEX: The foreign press would shower EPN with accolades, create a bubble, cash in and then wait for the economic crisis to hit in order to buy even more of Mexico at a lower price.

The Mexican people, however, have lived through one too many Mexico Moments are now wise to this game. Here are some of the best &ldquo;portadas verdaderas&rdquo; that we&rsquo;ve seen in response to Time&rsquo;s cover.

The bottom image of the autodefensa grandmother holding a rifle is, we feel, the most accurate response of them all. Mexico&rsquo;s people are saving themselves!

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