BBC News: On 1 July, Mexicans elect a new president, after a campaign that officially began three months ago but has in fact been under way much longer. Professor Duncan Wood argues that the main feature has been how little scandals, gaffes and protests have affected the candidates' standing.
If the opinion polls are right, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is set to return to the presidency after an absence of 12 years.
The PRI's candidate, Enrique Pena Nieto, has, according to most polls, maintained a double-digit lead over his main rivals, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and Josefina Vazquez Mota of the current governing National Action Party (PAN). 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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