Mexico’s progressive hell

Every morning I check to see if Rodrigo Iván Cortés has published the ‘apology’ that the court in Mexico has written for him and which it has ordered him to post on his social media accounts for 30 days in a row. I still have a flicker of faith left in civilisation and the rule of law, but the day Cortés actually makes his forced confession is the day that flicker dies out. And I’d be interested to know what my progress–minded friends think about his case. Is this the sort of justice system you envision?

Rodrigo Iván Cortés was a congressman in the days before Morena, the party of progress, took over, and he’s now head of a Catholic thinktank, the National Front for the Family, at a time when it’s tricky to be Christian in Mexico. It sounds strange to say it’s hard to be Christian in a country where 80 per cent of people are Catholic, but it is.