Reuters
Mexico City
March 20, 2013
Mexican lawmakers on Wednesday approved a bill to eliminate the ability of companies that operate public utilities to block regulator decisions during the court appeals process.
The Senate approved the reform with a wide majority, and it will be sent to President Enrique Pena Nieto to be signed into law. The lower house already approved the bill.
Changing the legal code governing Mexico's complex legal injunctions, the bill will affect firms with public concessions, such as telecommunications and mining companies.
Companies, such as billionaire Carlos Slim's America Movil , have used injunctions to block regulator decrees. The tool has enabled firms to extend legal battles over years and stymie the ability of authorities to improve competition. 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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Showing posts with label Mexico Politics. Show all posts
Mar 10, 2013
A traditionalist shines through Mexico's fresh new face
Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY — They elected a youthful president, a self-styled defender of democratic principles who promised to bring the country up to 21st century standards.
But many Mexicans suspected that an old-fashioned dinosaur heart was beating beneath Enrique Peña Nieto's smartly tailored suits, an inheritance from his Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, whose top-down, quasi-authoritarian rule defined much of Mexico's 20th century history.
On Sunday, after 100 days of living under Peña Nieto's rule, the Mexican people have a better idea of the ways in which their 46-year-old president, and his vintage political party, plan to manage the future of the United States' southern neighbor, a country rife with promise and peril. They are also discovering that Peña Nieto may be a kind of hybrid political creature, intent on effecting change while hewing to some of his party's older ways. Read more.
By Richard Fausset
March 10, 2013MEXICO CITY — They elected a youthful president, a self-styled defender of democratic principles who promised to bring the country up to 21st century standards.
But many Mexicans suspected that an old-fashioned dinosaur heart was beating beneath Enrique Peña Nieto's smartly tailored suits, an inheritance from his Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, whose top-down, quasi-authoritarian rule defined much of Mexico's 20th century history.
On Sunday, after 100 days of living under Peña Nieto's rule, the Mexican people have a better idea of the ways in which their 46-year-old president, and his vintage political party, plan to manage the future of the United States' southern neighbor, a country rife with promise and peril. They are also discovering that Peña Nieto may be a kind of hybrid political creature, intent on effecting change while hewing to some of his party's older ways. Read more.
Feb 17, 2013
U.S. Immigration Reforms Demand Mexican 'Firmness' (La Jornada, Mexico)
"For Mexico, Obama's second term represents an opportunity to restore the imperative of immigration reform to the place it should never have lost. ... Of course, this depends not only on the correlation of political forces North of the Rio Bravo, but on the capacity of our national authorities to handle bi-national relations with an attitude of respect, and at the same time with sovereign firmness, leaving behind the shameful submission toward Washington that characterized the previous administration."
La Jornada, February 16, 2013
Translated By Halszka Czarnocka for World Meets
In an anachronistic private ceremony, president of the United States Barack Obama has begun the second term he won in the November election, to remain at the head of the country for the next four years. In contrast to January 20, 2009, when the first African-American was installed in the White House, on this occasion there is no exuberant optimism in the neighboring country, and the sensation of participation in a historic moment has been left behind.
The electoral triumph of the former Senator for Illinois over his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, is not a result of his society's bet on the future, as happened in 2008, but a victory of common sense. While the defeated presidential candidate was unable to express sensible and viable solutions to the urgent problems facing the most powerful country in the world, his Democratic opponent proved in his first term to be an efficient manager, even if his leadership brought better results for the corporate and geopolitical interests of the superpower than for the unresolved needs of the U.S. population.
La Jornada, February 16, 2013
Translated By Halszka Czarnocka for World Meets
In an anachronistic private ceremony, president of the United States Barack Obama has begun the second term he won in the November election, to remain at the head of the country for the next four years. In contrast to January 20, 2009, when the first African-American was installed in the White House, on this occasion there is no exuberant optimism in the neighboring country, and the sensation of participation in a historic moment has been left behind.
The electoral triumph of the former Senator for Illinois over his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, is not a result of his society's bet on the future, as happened in 2008, but a victory of common sense. While the defeated presidential candidate was unable to express sensible and viable solutions to the urgent problems facing the most powerful country in the world, his Democratic opponent proved in his first term to be an efficient manager, even if his leadership brought better results for the corporate and geopolitical interests of the superpower than for the unresolved needs of the U.S. population.
Nov 17, 2012
Mexico's top organized crime investigator steps down
Mexico City| Thu Nov 15, 2012
(Reuters) - The head of Mexico's organized crime unit stepped down on Thursday, just weeks after announcing that members of his team had been charged with having links to the nation's most powerful drug cartel.
Jose Cuitlahuac Salinas, head of the unit in the attorney general's office, resigned for "personal reasons," a spokesman for the office said.
Attorney General Marisela Morales has accepted his resignation, which was effective immediately, he added.
Salinas will be replaced by Rodrigo Archundia Barrientos, an expert on kidnappings at the organized crime unit, Morales said in a statement.
On October 17 Salinas said the Mexican government had charged seven officials, including three members of his unit, with passing information on government raids and investigations to the Sinaloa cartel of Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, Mexico's most-wanted man.
Salinas himself was not being investigated, the spokesman at the attorney general's office said. Read more.
(Reuters) - The head of Mexico's organized crime unit stepped down on Thursday, just weeks after announcing that members of his team had been charged with having links to the nation's most powerful drug cartel.
Jose Cuitlahuac Salinas, head of the unit in the attorney general's office, resigned for "personal reasons," a spokesman for the office said.
Attorney General Marisela Morales has accepted his resignation, which was effective immediately, he added.
Salinas will be replaced by Rodrigo Archundia Barrientos, an expert on kidnappings at the organized crime unit, Morales said in a statement.
On October 17 Salinas said the Mexican government had charged seven officials, including three members of his unit, with passing information on government raids and investigations to the Sinaloa cartel of Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, Mexico's most-wanted man.
Salinas himself was not being investigated, the spokesman at the attorney general's office said. Read more.
Jul 16, 2012
Women Secure a Third of Mexican Parliament
Comunicación e Información de la Mujer AC, Cimac: Re-published by Inter Press Service.
MEXICO CITY - Female candidates are poised to occupy an unprecedented third of the seats in Mexico’s bicameral parliament when preliminary results for the Jul.1 election are confirmed.
In the lower chamber, 95 women were elected through direct vote (in a relative majority system), according to the preliminary results from the Federal Electoral Institute.
That is 31.7 percent of the seats filled through direct vote in that chamber, almost doubling the 17.33 percent obtained in 2009 when 52 women were elected. In the previous elections, however, eight women had given up their places to a male alternate. Read more.
MEXICO CITY - Female candidates are poised to occupy an unprecedented third of the seats in Mexico’s bicameral parliament when preliminary results for the Jul.1 election are confirmed.
In the lower chamber, 95 women were elected through direct vote (in a relative majority system), according to the preliminary results from the Federal Electoral Institute.
That is 31.7 percent of the seats filled through direct vote in that chamber, almost doubling the 17.33 percent obtained in 2009 when 52 women were elected. In the previous elections, however, eight women had given up their places to a male alternate. Read more.
Jun 26, 2012
Analysis: Mexican ruling party faces defeat but may back reforms
Reuters: Mexico's ruling party faces heavy defeat at a presidential election on Sunday and already is preparing for life in the opposition, where it could help pass economic reforms that it was unable to push through in power.
The conservative National Action Party, or PAN, ushered in a new era in Mexican democracy in a 2000 election that broke the Institutional Revolutionary Party's (PRI) 71-year grip on power and raised high hopes of change.
Twelve years on, however, Mexico is mired in a brutal drug war and the economy has suffered from sluggish growth, in part because two successive PAN governments have failed to get structural reforms through an opposition-controlled Congress.
Josefina Vazquez Mota, the PAN candidate, is paying for those failures. Running to become Mexico's first woman president, she is far behind front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto, who touts himself as the new face of the PRI. Read more.
The conservative National Action Party, or PAN, ushered in a new era in Mexican democracy in a 2000 election that broke the Institutional Revolutionary Party's (PRI) 71-year grip on power and raised high hopes of change.
Twelve years on, however, Mexico is mired in a brutal drug war and the economy has suffered from sluggish growth, in part because two successive PAN governments have failed to get structural reforms through an opposition-controlled Congress.
Josefina Vazquez Mota, the PAN candidate, is paying for those failures. Running to become Mexico's first woman president, she is far behind front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto, who touts himself as the new face of the PRI. Read more.
Jun 21, 2012
Mayoral Race In Border Town Parallels A Woman's Historic Bid For Mexican Presidency
In Agua Prieta Lolita Montano is the first female PAN candidate for mayor.
Fronteras: AGUA PRIETA, MEXICO -- By now, with summer on its way, Mexico's political season is hot.
In border cities like Agua Prieta, just south of Douglas, Ariz., pedestrians can hear music playing from a dusty sedan. As it drives through town, the car sounds a peppy anthem for the National Action Party -- the PAN – and rallies support for candidates like Lolita Montaño.
The July 1, 2012, election is the first time a woman will appear on a ballot for mayor of Agua Prieta as a PAN candidate. Read more.
Fronteras: AGUA PRIETA, MEXICO -- By now, with summer on its way, Mexico's political season is hot.
In border cities like Agua Prieta, just south of Douglas, Ariz., pedestrians can hear music playing from a dusty sedan. As it drives through town, the car sounds a peppy anthem for the National Action Party -- the PAN – and rallies support for candidates like Lolita Montaño.
The July 1, 2012, election is the first time a woman will appear on a ballot for mayor of Agua Prieta as a PAN candidate. Read more.
Jun 20, 2012
As Vazquez Mota falls, a call for Mexicans to vote tactically for Lopez Obrador
El Proceso: Americas Program Original Translation
MEXICO CITY - In a public announcement this Wednesday, writers, academics, researchers, and artists called on the electorate to vote tactically for Andrés Manuel López Obrador, candidate of the Progressive Movement Coalition.
“In light of Josefina Vázquez Mota’s fall in the polls and in the risk of restoring the authoritarianism that Enrique Peña Nieto represents, we who give this pronouncement, Mexicans coming from various professional backgrounds, of diverse ideologies and with different political backgrounds, call on citizens to vote for Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
“We are convinced that he would be an honest, consistent, and effective president of the Republic, who would lead the country on the path toward peace and comprehensive, equitable, just, and sustainable development that we have been working for. In particular, we can be confident and certain of the profile, background, and proposals of his formed cabinet.
“This call to vote for Andrés Manuel López Obrador that we are making today does not necessarily make us part of his movement, nor does it exempt us from the responsibility that we have as citizens to maintain constructive criticism of the government, as we encourage moving toward the true consolidation of our democracy.
“The time of tactical voting has arrived. Let us gather behind democratic change, let us give peace a chance,” reads the publication.
Signing the announcement: Juan Villoro, Humberto Musacchio, Rafael Reygadas, Alberto Azis, Lorenzo Meyer, Jesús Robles Maloof, César Cansino, Demián Alcázar, Ernesto Villanueva, Florence Toussaint, Sergio Sarmiento, Federico Campbell, Axel Driksson and Inti Muñoz, among others.
See Spanish original.
Translation by Ryan Gentzler, Americas Program
MEXICO CITY - In a public announcement this Wednesday, writers, academics, researchers, and artists called on the electorate to vote tactically for Andrés Manuel López Obrador, candidate of the Progressive Movement Coalition.
“In light of Josefina Vázquez Mota’s fall in the polls and in the risk of restoring the authoritarianism that Enrique Peña Nieto represents, we who give this pronouncement, Mexicans coming from various professional backgrounds, of diverse ideologies and with different political backgrounds, call on citizens to vote for Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
“We are convinced that he would be an honest, consistent, and effective president of the Republic, who would lead the country on the path toward peace and comprehensive, equitable, just, and sustainable development that we have been working for. In particular, we can be confident and certain of the profile, background, and proposals of his formed cabinet.
“This call to vote for Andrés Manuel López Obrador that we are making today does not necessarily make us part of his movement, nor does it exempt us from the responsibility that we have as citizens to maintain constructive criticism of the government, as we encourage moving toward the true consolidation of our democracy.
“The time of tactical voting has arrived. Let us gather behind democratic change, let us give peace a chance,” reads the publication.
Signing the announcement: Juan Villoro, Humberto Musacchio, Rafael Reygadas, Alberto Azis, Lorenzo Meyer, Jesús Robles Maloof, César Cansino, Demián Alcázar, Ernesto Villanueva, Florence Toussaint, Sergio Sarmiento, Federico Campbell, Axel Driksson and Inti Muñoz, among others.
See Spanish original.
Translation by Ryan Gentzler, Americas Program
Jun 19, 2012
Mexico film on Luis Donaldo Colosio slaying puts PRI in bad light
latimes.com: The movie about presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio aims to prod Mexicans into thinking about the key events of 1994 as another presidential vote nears.
MEXICO CITY — A young presidential candidate pushes through a crowd of supporters in a barrio in Tijuana, apparently unaware as the barrel of a gun is placed at his right temple. Before anyone can react, the gunman pulls the trigger, exploding the skull. As the candidate falls, a second bullet rips into his body.
That much we know.
MEXICO CITY — A young presidential candidate pushes through a crowd of supporters in a barrio in Tijuana, apparently unaware as the barrel of a gun is placed at his right temple. Before anyone can react, the gunman pulls the trigger, exploding the skull. As the candidate falls, a second bullet rips into his body.
That much we know.
But the March 23, 1994, assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio, a few months before he was expected to be elected, has never been solved to the satisfaction of many Mexicans, despite a six-year government investigation that concluded it was the work of a lone gunman. Read more.
Jun 12, 2012
National Independent Poll (Encuesta Nacional Independiente)
Citizen’s Front in Defense of an Effective and Free Vote presented a poll done by the company Berumen and Associates, whose results throw a technical draw between Enrique Peña Nieto and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, candidates to the presidency of the republic under the PRI-Green Party and PRD-PT-Citizens' Movement coalitions, respectively, followed by Josefina Vázquez Mota, from the PAN, in a distant third place.
Commissioned by the Observatorio Universitario Electoral (Electoral College Observatory), composed mainly by academics of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Metropolitan Autonomous University), the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (National Autonomous University of Mexico) and El Colegio de México (The College of Mexico), the poll establishes the following data regarding voting intention: EPN, 30.9%; AMLO, 31.8%, and JV, 20.7%.
In the event, John M. Ackerman gave a context presentation, followed by Amílcar Sandoval who read a rebuttal to a statement by IFE published during the weekend defending its role. He affirmed that the electoral umpire presents severe deficiencies in fulfilling its role, citing as an example the topic of polls where the Institute behaves as a mere registrar office, receiving reports on the methodologies without bringing them under analysis.
Edmundo Berumen (general director of the polling company) followed, offering various methodological details on the exercise of registering voters’ preferences: a sample designed under a strictly probabilistic approach to be applied in 600 electoral sections of the national territory. A total of 3 thousand 480 completed interviews were collected, raised between 30 May and 6 June, respecting the implementation of the sample design up until the household level, with up to three visits per household and without a substitution scheme, among other characteristics.
According to Berumen, the majority of the polls thus far released in this electoral process do not extend over more than 200 electoral sections nor do they respect the probabilistic approach.
According to Berumen, the majority of the polls thus far released in this electoral process do not extend over more than 200 electoral sections nor do they respect the probabilistic approach.
According to Ackerman, the poll shows that the ongoing process has turned into an election between two, as recently pointed out by Reforma’s poll.
(This post has been corrected: EPN: 30.9%, AMLO: 31.8% and JVM: 20.7%--still representing a technical tie. However, we have calls in to clear up confusion that arose last night as to whether these are the final or preliminary results. We will keep you posted.)
WikiLeaks reveals US concerns over Televisa-Peña Nieto links in 2009
The Guardian: US diplomats raised concerns that the frontrunner in Mexico's presidential election, Enrique Peña Nieto, was paying for favourable TV coverage as far back as 2009, according to state department cables released by WikiLeaks.
Allegations that coverage by the country's main television network was biased in favour of Peña Nieto have triggered a wave of student demonstrations in the runup to the election on 1 July. The claims are supported by documents seen by the Guardian, which also implicate other politicians in buying news and entertainment coverage. Read more.
Jun 11, 2012
Ex-Governor Calls Charges He Worked with Drug Cartels a 'Desperate' Campaign Stunt
(WorldMeets.US Translation) El Universal: Tomás Yarrington, the former governor of Tamaulipas [map below], says that the Attorney General's Office is acting to further the electoral interests of the presidency and the National Action Party [PRI] by attempting to link him and two other former Tamaulipas governors with organized crime.
[Editor’s Note: All the accused governors were, as the Mexicans say, priísta – members of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party. One of the other men accused is former Tamaulipas Governor Eugenio Hernandez Flores. The “third” former governor has yet to be named. The Mexican presidential election is scheduled for June 1].
Yarrington has been mentioned in investigations of both Mexico and the United States for having received millions in bribes from drug cartels [chiefly the Gulf Cartel] and for having laundered those assets in the financial systems of both nations. Read more.
[Editor’s Note: All the accused governors were, as the Mexicans say, priísta – members of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party. One of the other men accused is former Tamaulipas Governor Eugenio Hernandez Flores. The “third” former governor has yet to be named. The Mexican presidential election is scheduled for June 1].
Yarrington has been mentioned in investigations of both Mexico and the United States for having received millions in bribes from drug cartels [chiefly the Gulf Cartel] and for having laundered those assets in the financial systems of both nations. Read more.
Jun 6, 2012
Official: Mexico seizes property of ex-governor
Mexican federal authorities have seized property of the former governor of Tamaulipas Eugenio Hernandez Flores, the successor to Tomas Yarrington, who has been accused of receiving bribes from drug cartels.
Associated Press: MEXICO CITY—Mexican federal prosecutors have seized a ranch and the offices of former Tamaulipas state Gov. Eugenio Hernandez Flores.
A state official says soldiers and federal agents with the organized crime branch of the Attorney General's Office raided Flores' properties Tuesday. The official who deployed agents to guard the area spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to talk to the press.
U.S. authorities allege a previous ex-governor of the northern border state, Tomas Yarrington, took money from the Gulf and the Zetas cartel. That charge is made in several civil and criminal cases filed against other defendants tied to Yarrington. The cases cite testimony of witnesses who spoke to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Read more.
May 14, 2012
Disenchantment may keep Mexico's young voters on sidelines
Los Angeles Times: They are Mexico's "democracy babies" — a generation that grew up just as the nation broke free of decades of all-encompassing one-party rule.
Only 12 years ago, young people flocked to the polls with high hopes as part of what would be a historic ouster of the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI. Now, as the country prepares to pick a new president in July,Mexico's young sound mostly disillusioned by the choices before them, and by joblessness and skyrocketing drug violence that have hit them especially hard.
On paper at least, these 24 million voters under 30 — nearly a third of the electorate — could be a powerful voice for change. But many have come to view the democratic transition as so much blah-blah-blah in the face of a system that remains deeply marred by corruption and filled with politicians who are as self-interested as ever.
"Why go vote? It's only a waste of time. They're all the same — they all lie, they all steal and no one helps you," said 20-year-old Sergio Guerrero, who on a recent day was selling lamb tacos at a street market here. read more
Only 12 years ago, young people flocked to the polls with high hopes as part of what would be a historic ouster of the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI. Now, as the country prepares to pick a new president in July,Mexico's young sound mostly disillusioned by the choices before them, and by joblessness and skyrocketing drug violence that have hit them especially hard.
On paper at least, these 24 million voters under 30 — nearly a third of the electorate — could be a powerful voice for change. But many have come to view the democratic transition as so much blah-blah-blah in the face of a system that remains deeply marred by corruption and filled with politicians who are as self-interested as ever.
"Why go vote? It's only a waste of time. They're all the same — they all lie, they all steal and no one helps you," said 20-year-old Sergio Guerrero, who on a recent day was selling lamb tacos at a street market here. read more
May 7, 2012
Mexican front-runner fends off debate attacks
Atlanta Journal Constitution: The front-runner in Mexico's presidential race fended off rivals' attempts to paint him as a liar with corrupt backers, emerging from the first of two debates with analysts saying his large lead appeared safe.
Enrique Pena Nieto, the candidate seeking to return Mexico's former ruling party to the nation's highest office after 12 years, was accused of lying about his record as governor of the state of Mexico and maintaining ties to unsavory elements of his Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI. read more
Enrique Pena Nieto, the candidate seeking to return Mexico's former ruling party to the nation's highest office after 12 years, was accused of lying about his record as governor of the state of Mexico and maintaining ties to unsavory elements of his Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI. read more
May 4, 2012
Presidential debate dispute riles Mexico
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 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
Mexico’s PRI, leading to retake presidency, vows not to return to old ways
KansasCity.com: "The Institutional Revolutionary Party, known by its Spanish initials as the PRI, ruled Mexico for 71 consecutive years before it lost the presidency 12 years ago. Now, with its candidate the front-runner in the July 1 presidential election campaign, it’s trying to recast itself as no longer the corrupt, opaque and repressive machine that gripped Mexico for much of the 20th century in one-party rule.
Competitors deride the idea of a “new PRI,” saying the party’s old practices will reappear if its candidate, Enrique Pena Nieto, wins and takes office Dec. 1.
Pena Nieto, a telegenic politician with a 100-watt smile, bristles, however, at suggestions that the PRI hasn’t adapted." read more
Competitors deride the idea of a “new PRI,” saying the party’s old practices will reappear if its candidate, Enrique Pena Nieto, wins and takes office Dec. 1.
Pena Nieto, a telegenic politician with a 100-watt smile, bristles, however, at suggestions that the PRI hasn’t adapted." read more
Mexico's leftist tries to overcome past mistakes
Fox News: For a man whose anger and inflexibility may have cost him his dreams of the presidency, leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is surprisingly calm and friendly on the campaign trail.
In his second presidential bid, the white-haired shopkeeper's son beloved by many poor Mexicans rides the subway, waits in airports for economy flights, patiently poses for pictures with supporters and even lobs verbal roses at Mexico's business community in what he has dubbed his "Republic of Love" campaign.
It is a far cry from the fiery orator who during his 2006 presidential run told then-President Vicente Fox to "shut up, chachalaca (noisy bird)" and said "let the devil take your (political) institutions." Adding to his problems that year, he decided to skip one of the only two candidates' debates and bitterly accused Mexico's corporations, television stations and newspapers of conspiring against him. read more
In his second presidential bid, the white-haired shopkeeper's son beloved by many poor Mexicans rides the subway, waits in airports for economy flights, patiently poses for pictures with supporters and even lobs verbal roses at Mexico's business community in what he has dubbed his "Republic of Love" campaign.
It is a far cry from the fiery orator who during his 2006 presidential run told then-President Vicente Fox to "shut up, chachalaca (noisy bird)" and said "let the devil take your (political) institutions." Adding to his problems that year, he decided to skip one of the only two candidates' debates and bitterly accused Mexico's corporations, television stations and newspapers of conspiring against him. read more
May 2, 2012
Mexico soccer vs politics spat getting ugly
CBS News: "Mexico's scheduling conflict between a presidential candidates' debate and a soccer quarterfinals match got ugly Tuesday, amid accusations of skullduggery, greed and authoritarianism.
It seems to have been turned into a grudge match, between whether Mexicans will tune in to watch politicos batting around ideas, or two of the nation's best teams kicking around a ball.
Electoral authorities made plans two weeks ago to hold the debate at 8 p.m. this Sunday.
Then on Monday, Mexico's soccer federation announced it will hold a first-division quarterfinals match between Tigres and Morelia at the same time.
Leonardo Valdes, the head of Mexico's electoral institute, condemned some broadcasters' decision to show the soccer game and not the debate." read more
It seems to have been turned into a grudge match, between whether Mexicans will tune in to watch politicos batting around ideas, or two of the nation's best teams kicking around a ball.
Electoral authorities made plans two weeks ago to hold the debate at 8 p.m. this Sunday.
Then on Monday, Mexico's soccer federation announced it will hold a first-division quarterfinals match between Tigres and Morelia at the same time.
Leonardo Valdes, the head of Mexico's electoral institute, condemned some broadcasters' decision to show the soccer game and not the debate." read more
Mexico’s presidential front-runner builds huge lead as fresh face for old ruling party
The Washington Post: A month into Mexico’s breakneck campaign season, the movie-star handsome candidate of the former ruling party is 20 percentage points ahead of his two main rivals and drawing tens of thousands of cheering supporters to tightly choreographed rallies that feel as much like victory celebrations as campaign events.
If the next two months go as planned, Enrique Pena Nieto will return the Institutional Revolutionary Party to Mexico’s highest office 12 years after voters fed up with its corruption, mismanagement and repression of opponents ended its 71 years of autocratic rule.
What a Pena Nieto presidency would look like, however, remains unclear. The fresh-faced, 45-year-old former governor is promising national rejuvenation after six years of a grueling drug war and sluggish economic growth, but his dozens of campaign pledges center on more mundane matters — small-scale infrastructure projects such as highway overpasses and better flood control. read more
If the next two months go as planned, Enrique Pena Nieto will return the Institutional Revolutionary Party to Mexico’s highest office 12 years after voters fed up with its corruption, mismanagement and repression of opponents ended its 71 years of autocratic rule.
What a Pena Nieto presidency would look like, however, remains unclear. The fresh-faced, 45-year-old former governor is promising national rejuvenation after six years of a grueling drug war and sluggish economic growth, but his dozens of campaign pledges center on more mundane matters — small-scale infrastructure projects such as highway overpasses and better flood control. read more
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