The Mexican election

Re “Independence, spoiled,” editorial, Sept. 18

It is clear The Times would prefer that all Mexicans quietly accept the continuation of the same regime that has kept them in poverty. Indeed, intellectual Cuauhtemoc Cardenas won the election in 1988 but did not have the courage to do what the most recent presidential challenger, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, is doing. Cardenas failed the Mexican people then, and he fails again by not supporting Lopez Obrador.

Mexicans want progress, but not the kind of progress that will keep them poor.

PATRICIA LOPEZ

West Hills