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...were difficult to ignore. I figured that the Spanish government was not offering a Spanish language crash course to foreigners, but if not that, then what could these signs refer to?The answer came a day later in Spanish newspapers. The headlines all shared one word: “L??estatut.” After asking some people at work and a friend in a contemporary Spanish government class, I learned how the Si’s and No’s related to this statute. “L??estatut” determines Catalonia?...

Author: By Steven A. Mcdonald, | Title: Catalán, Anyone? | 8/4/2006 | See Source »

...Mexicans. Voters believed the election would not only decide who would run the country for six years but also, more fundamentally, what kind of political and economic system Mexico would have. The platforms of the two leading candidates--the conservative Felipe Caldern and the leftist Andrs Manuel L??pez Obrador--differed on the roles of the state vs. the market, the nature of political institutions, how to fight poverty and what kinds of links Mexico should have with the rest of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Good Neighbor Strategy | 7/9/2006 | See Source »

...afraid to die in the fight." --EMILIO SERRANO, member of Mexican presidential candidate Andrs Manuel L??pez Obrador's leftist party, pledging protests after conservative Felipe Caldern apparently won last week's elections by just 0.58%--243,934 votes out of 41.8 million cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Jul. 17, 2006 | 7/9/2006 | See Source »

...stark contrast, L??pez Obrador, the candidate of the Revolutionary Democratic Party, promised to increase social spending through a massive public works project that he said would create jobs...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani and Claire M. Guehenno, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Calderón Wins in Mexico | 7/7/2006 | See Source »

...votes, or about one percent, the official count yesterday, with 100 percent of the electoral districts reporting, gave him a margin of 234,000 votes out of 41 million cast. The Federal Election Institute reported that Calderón received 35.9 percent of the vote to L??pez Obrador’s 35.3 percent. L??pez Obrador has declared that he will protest the results and had demanded a recount in the electoral courts...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani and Claire M. Guehenno, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Calderón Wins in Mexico | 7/7/2006 | See Source »

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