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...nation. Not so for 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 Calderón and the leftist Andrés Manuel López 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...
...continent. But in recent months, the Chávez movement has run up against opposition from forces that view it as wrongheaded, militaristic and undemocratic. In Mexico's election, as in Peru's last month, Chávez turned out to be more of a liability than an asset to the leftist candidate carrying his banner...
...electing conservatives, Colombia and Mexico have bucked the leftist trend sweeping through Latin America. Over the past few years, left-of center governments have come to power by winning elections in Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, and Peru...
While the eyes of the hemisphere were fixed on Mexico's hotly contested presidential election this week, another critical Latin American vote was being carried out in Bolivia - a national referendum in which President Evo Morales hoped to consolidate a leftist revolution that has turned South America's poorest nation into a regional player. And while Morales' forces won for the most part, the results also deepened the sense of showdown between Bolivia's poor, indigenous western highlands and a small but powerful affluent white elite in the eastern lowlands...
...assembly will face other hot-button issues that Morales hopes will solidify his leftist reforms and reflect the fact that Bolivia is 70% indigenous. "The point is to establish societal rules that reflect the traditions and realities of the people of Bolivia," said El Alto city councilman Wilson Soria. "For centuries, many of our cultural values have been unrecognized because we've been ruled by a Constitution that responds to the needs of foreigners." The proposals include constitutionalizing traditional forms of indigenous community justice as well as the national "recuperation" of natural resources like lumber, silver, water...