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Kennedy School graduate Felipé Calderón Hinojosa was elected president of Mexico on Sunday, dispatching the leftist former mayor of Mexico City, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, after a tight race that was too-close-to-call until the official count was finished yesterday...
...unlikely to be resolved before week's end, if then. With 96% of polling stations reporting after Sunday's balloting, fewer than 400,000 votes (about 1% of the total) separate the leader, Felipe Calder?n of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), and Andr?s Manuel L?pez Obrador of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD). Federal election authorities call that margin too thin to announce a winner before a more detailed count can be completed - but both Calder?n and L?pez Obrador wasted no time last night declaring victory. "We won the election without a doubt," Calder?n told his supporters near midnight...
...charges against Arroyo are similar to those made during last year's tumultuous impeachment drive: allegations that Arroyo cheated in the May 2004 presidential election, used money from illegal gambling in her campaign, suppressed political dissent and condoned the killings of journalists and leftist leaders. Arroyo has denied the charges and her allies in Congress defeated the previous impeachment effort, but the President remains badly bruised. A March poll found that just 29% of respondents were satisfied with her performance. The economy, though showing modest gains in recent months, is still shaky and too dependent on the $10 billion...
...preordained, the product of 71 years of one-party rule that ended in 2000. But when Mexicans go to the polls on July 2, few will gripe that this campaign has been too quiet. The front runner, former Mexico City Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador, of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, has turned his rallies into carnival-style events, with supporters tossing marigold garlands around his neck and hoisting cages with squawking chachalaca birds that wear his opponents' names. To a raucous throng last week in Puebla, south of Mexico City, López pledged to rid the government...
...country's ports by 2012; India has also embarked on a $50 billion program to add or modernize 40,000 km of highways over the next several years. The government is facing stiff opposition to another major reform of the country's onerous labor laws from labor unions and leftist politicians, but it is trying, at least, to get the process started. It is championing special economic zones with 10-year tax holidays, duty-free imports and the possibility of less restrictive labor laws...