There is a long-standing tradition in Mexico of making political alliances across ideological lines for pragmatic ends.
Right and left join forces in Mexico governor's race - Fox News Latino: "With less than a week to go before the balloting, the right-wing National Action Party agreed to back the candidate of a leftist coalition in the race for governor of the southern Mexican state of Guerrero.
The rightist party, known as the PAN, said it accepted the pact with the Guerrero Unites Us coalition 'to form a democratic coalition government with the aim of ensuring social development, progress and public safety.'
PAN gubernatorial candidate Marcos Efren Parra dropped out of the contest in favor of Angel Aguirre, standard-bearer of the coalition formed by the left PRD, Labor and Convergencia parties.
With Parra's withdrawal, the race comes down to Aguirre and Manuel Añorve, nominee of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI."
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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