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The independent
| 11 months ago
Julia Fuertes digs into her handbag to retrieve a pair of earrings she has made at home. Simple circles of coloured card, they are adorned with photographs of a dashing man cut from celebrity magazines. He looks like an Mexican soap star, except that...
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CNN
| 11 months ago
Yet some policy glimpses have emerged, particularly in the security realm. All the candidates have pledged a major shift, making violence reduction a priority over President Felipe Calderon's war on narcotraffickers, which has been carried out with U.
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Daily Nation
| 11 months ago
Rating Leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador claims he will be Mexico's next president -- just like he says he should be the country's current president -- even though he has yet to lead in opinion polls. The assertion is not that far-fetched:...
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HNN
| 11 months ago
NYT (6-23-12) Jo Tuckman is a foreign correspondent who writes for The Guardian and other publications, and the author of Mexico: Democracy Interrupted. IN 2000, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which had run Mexico for 71 years with the help...
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BBC
| 11 months ago
A look ahead to Mexico's presidential election 25 June 2012 Last updated at 09:47 ET Next weekend Mexico will go to the polls to chose a new president. The vote is being held against the background of a violent drugs war and a slowing economy. The...
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CNN
| 11 months ago
But on the campaign trail in Mexico this year, the three leading candidates have stressed the need to shift strategies. Leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the opposition Democratic Revolution Party has summed up his security policy as "...
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BBC
| 11 months ago
The bus slid off the road into a ravine in wet conditions while on its way to a rally in the town of Buenavista de Cuellar, state authorities said. Most of the passengers were wearing T-shirts bearing the logo of the left-wing Labour Party (PT), a...
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AP Online
| 11 months ago
The front-runner in Mexico's July 1 presidential elections has rallied tens of thousands of supporters at his first mass campaign event in the country's capital, saying he will respect Mexico's democracy and govern for all if elected.
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
Candidates in Mexico's upcoming presidential election say they want to stop the violent drug war but analysts say no one is offering a new strategy. The Los Angeles Times said the election to replace outgoing President Felipe Calderon is unlikely to...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
With just a week to go until Mexico 's presidential election, leftist contender Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has stirred up fears of a repeat of the chaos caused when he led massive protests after his narrow defeat in 2006...Fuelled by a burst of...
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CNN
| 11 months ago
But on the campaign trail in Mexico this year, the three leading candidates have stressed the need to shift strategies. Leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the opposition Democratic Revolution Party has summed up his security policy as "...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
Mexico's 'perfect dictatorship' on brink of comeback but has it changed? PRI's Enrique Pena Nieto on course for presidency after party spends 12 years rebuilding its formidable machine Enrique Pena Nieto, the PRI's presidential candidate, is cheered...
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AP Online
| 11 months ago
When it comes to the presidency, Mexico's voters are fed up and ready to throw the ruling the party out. But in the nation's capital, the progressive island known as Mexico City, they're about to hand the leftist political party that has ruled since...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
One after another, Mexico 's presidential candidates sat in silence amid the grand setting of Chapultepec Castle while, across the room, the leader of the country's movement of victims of drug war violence a poet chastised them. "The 60,000 dead, the...
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Reuters
| 11 months ago
Topics Supporters of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, presidential candidate for the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), attend a rally in Monterrey June 20, 2012. A Hitler admirer, a former Playboy model, a self-confessed adulterer and the promise...
