Mexico's left wins western state in setback for PRI | Reuters: "Mexico's left appeared to hold onto a governorship in the country's western hinterland on Sunday in a sign the main opposition party still needs to show voters it has modernized to win the presidency in 2012.
In the shadow of harrowing drug violence, voters in Guerrero gave the leftist Party of Democratic Revolution, or PRD, victory over the powerful Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, one of six state elections ahead of next year's presidential race.
Both parties claimed victory on Sunday night and accused the other of trying to rig the vote. But with 45 percent of the vote counted, the PRD's candidate Angel Aguirre won 57 percent of the ballot, Guerrero State Electoral Institute said on its website"
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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