Fox News Latino: "Some of Mexico's presidential candidates cried foul late Wednesday after the country's second-largest broadcaster said it would air a soccer game instead of the first presidential debate Sunday.
The decision this week by broadcaster TV Azteca SAB sparked a brawl involving the candidates, the country's political parties and electoral authority, pundits, its soccer league and sports fans.
The move led to accusations that TV Azteca -- and its billionaire owner, Ricardo Salinas Pliego -- is protecting front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto, the candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, Mexico's former ruling party. read more
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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