Word: mexicans
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...afraid to die in the fight." --EMILIO SERRANO, member of Mexican presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador's leftist party, pledging protests after conservative Felipe Calderón apparently won last week's elections by just 0.58%--243,934 votes out of 41.8 million cast...
...professors also said they believed that Calderón would be able to enact more of his economic reform agenda unlike Fox, whose plans were consistently blocked by the Mexican Congress...
...MEXICAN SWIFT BOATING...
...with Dillon Professor of International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez—said that Lopez Obrador’s credentials on democracy were “ambiguous†because as mayor of Mexico City he at times ignored the mandates of the local legislature, challenged the authority of the Mexican Supreme Court, and obstructed the operations of the renowned international anti-graft organization, Transparency International. But he hastened to add that comparing Lopez Obrador to Chavez is unfair—the former was not a military general, did not stage a coup, and, in fact, came up through the ranks...
Having written widely on the influence of money in Mexican elections, Poire also noted that under the current financing system—where both parties have access to a great deal of money from the public purse to spend on attack advertisements—campaigns chock full of such ads would become commonplace...