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...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...
...activists deep into the Lacandon forest in Chiapas state last week to deliver his campaign promise. In an open-air amphitheater hastily erected of logs, as storm clouds gathered overhead, Marcos issued a stern warning to the government of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. If there is fraud in the upcoming national election, he declared, there will be an explosion of protest that will shut down Mexico. Just as he stopped speaking, a powerful downpour brought the four-day gathering to a sudden end, setting off a dangerous shower of sparks from the encampment's electric lights...
...election ever. For the first time since 1929, the long tradition of fraudulent elections has given way to a belief that the opposition has a genuine chance of winning. Yet most prospective voters remain to some degree skeptical of government promises that the vote will be completely clean and fraud free. "I don't support any candidate because all I see is corruption and promises that are never kept," said Fidel Lopez Cruz, 67, as he pushed his crude ox-drawn plow across a small plot of land near Oaxaca. If the public concludes the results have been fixed...
Despite scattered cries of fraud, many Mexicans hope Sunday's presidential vote will live up to its promise to be the first truly contested election they 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...
...behind the unrest was Moshood Abiola, a bearish 56-year-old multimillionaire who is widely believed -- based on incomplete results -- to have won election as President in June 1993. He was deprived of victory, however, by General Ibrahim Babangida, who had ruled the country for eight years. Babangida charged fraud and annulled the results before they were published...