We're speculating about why Calderon has been supporting the new organization. I've come up with three or four hypotheses: Calderon is looking to his legacy, Calderon is trying to shore up his nationalist credentials in the face of growing unrest over Plan Mexico, Calderon and the US have agreed to try to coopt Latin American anger (this will be easier as Latin America moves right and as Venezuela is isolated as by the recent IACHR report), or Calderon is actually interested in seeing Mexico develop apart from the US.

Richard Grabman has some interesting comments.