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Calderón, a former energy minister and the candidate of outgoing President Vicente Fox’s ruling National Action Party, focused his campaign on reviving the Mexican economy, promising to increase foreign investment, reduce tax rates, further liberalize trade, and maintain tight monetary policy...
Sunday’s vote marked Mexico’s first presidential election since 2000, when Vicente Fox broke the Institutional Revolutionary Party’s (PRI) 70-year stranglehold on the nation’s politics. The race was a key moment in Mexican history, as the nation’s still-nascent electoral institutions presided over an election decided by less than one half of one percent of the vote...
...Critics, especially in the PRD, insist that Mexican election officials could have resolved the count as early as Monday morning without throwing the nation - and the financial markets - into days of uncertainty. But those authorities appear more overwhelmed than crooked. Mexico is still a fledgling democracy at best. And whoever does come out the winner this week will have nothing even remotely resembling a mandate. With the Congress looking more or less evenly divided between the PAN, PRD and PRI, turning any presidential agenda into law will be as precarious as a Mexican migrant's trek through the Arizona desert...
...last year, found that even adolescents, who have usually begun going their own way, devote at least 10 hours a week to activities with their siblings--a lot when you consider that with school, sports, dates and sleep, there aren't a whole lot of free hours left. In Mexican-American homes, where broods are generally bigger, the figure tops 17 hours...
After a year of negotiations, a dispute between Felipe’s Taqueria and its landlord may keep the Harvard Square Mexican food restaurant from extending its late-night hours.During a June 20 hearing before the Cambridge License Commission (CLC), Commission Chairman Richard Scali postponed a ruling on the extension until a July 25 CLC meeting.If granted the extended hours, Felipe’s would be one of the few establishments in Harvard Square able to serve food until 4 a.m. on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. Felipe’s would also be allowed to operate until...