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In Mexico, security experts say, El Chapo’s relatives could be in danger because of the bloody factional conflict currently raging among rival factions of the Sinaloa cartel.

But its inevitable outcome, he argues, is mob rule, bitter factional division, the debasement of civic culture and finally some version of Caesarism.

Setting out his stall, he accused his party of "failing to deliver" on its promises because "factional fighting was more important".

“This factional, vindictive behaviour is designed to humiliate socialist candidates as well as block them.”

The fact is that so much more could have been done had not so much money and energy been wasted by corruption and factional struggles inside the ruling party.