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...trucks -- up from fewer than 4,000 last year. From January to June, U.S. exports to Mexico rose 17%, to $24.5 billion, and Mexico's exports to the U.S. went up 21%, to $23.4 billion. Big business south of the border has blossomed as entrepreneurs like Jose Mendoza Fernandez, president of Bufete Industries, the second largest construction firm, find new clients in Canada and the U.S. Planning ahead, Mendoza linked up with U.S. partners six years...
...everything's copacetic. Runner-up Diego Fernandez de Cevallos of the center-right National Action Party (28 percent) and third-place Cuauhtemoc Cardenas of the Democratic Revolution Party (16 percent) said they suspected the official vote totals were off because of a shortage of absentee ballots and scattered irregularities. Cardenas, who lost the 1988 election to the P.R.I.'s Carlos Salinas de Gortari, drew at least 20,000 people to a central Mexico City square on Monday to protest an election he called "a colossal fraud." He plans another rally Saturday...
Mexico's paradoxically named Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has weathered the toughest election in its 65-year rule -- i.e., the cleanest and most competitive vote in the country's history. By this evening, ballot counters said PRI candidate Ernesto Zedillo had a comfortable lead over rival Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, of the conservative National Action Party. Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, trailed both. A hopeful sign: more than 70 percent of those registered voted, far above the expected 50 percent...
...have ever known. Nonetheless, TIME Mexico City Bureau Chief Laura Lopez reports, polls indicate most Mexicans will back Ernesto Zedillo, candidate of Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) that has ruled the country since 1929. One reason for Zedillo's 20-point lead: Lopez says rival National Action Party candidate Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, once the front-runner, miscalculated by taking a campaign break in June. Another: "They're indicating that they still aren't ready for change," Lopez says. "And they don't have any more faith in Cevallos than they have in the PRI." As for election fraud, a record...
Assistant Editors: Tam Martinides Gray (Research Chief), Ariadna Victoria Rainert (Administration), Oscar Chiang, Mary McC. Fernandez, Lois Gilman, Valerie Johanna Marchant, Adrianne Jucius Navon...