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Mexico's presidential candidates offer some colorful surprises
World NowThe four candidates for president of Mexico met in a two-hour debate on Sunday night that saw several colorful surprises but few signs that one candidate pulled away with a sure win.... -
Miguel de la Madrid dies at 77; former president of Mexico
MEXICO CITY —Former Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid, who led the country amid economic meltdown and natural disaster in the 1980s but laid the groundwork for freer markets and political opening, has died. He was 77.
De la Madrid died Sunday...Tags: Trade Agreements, Mexico, Elections, Colleges and Universities, Treaties
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Mexican ex-President Miguel de la Madrid reported dead, then alive
World NowFormer Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid is reported dead, then officials backtrack and say he is alive but in grave condition.... -
Left, right or center? Mexican political brand names explained
World NowAs the July presidential election nears, watchers of world news are sure to be hearing much more about the PAN, its candidate Josefina Vazquez Mota, and her main rivals, Enrique Peña Nieto of the party known as PRI, and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of... -
The 1985 Mexico City earthquake, remembered
La PlazaMexico City on Sunday marked 25 years since a powerful earthquake devastated the Mexican capital, killing thousands and sparking a grassroots civilian rescue effort that helped lead to the demise of the one-party state. The magnitude 8.1 quake shook... -
Report: The Salvadoran ex-guerrilla advising Mexico's drug-war leaders
La PlazaNearly 30,000 people, the latest figure being used, have died in Mexico's drug war in the nearly four years since President Felipe Calderon dispatched the military to disrupt the country's drug-trafficking organizations. Calderon's administration has... -
On Mexico's Carlos Monsivais: 1938-2010
La PlazaMonsiváis was a journalist, a critic, a cinephile, a collector of historical and pop ephemera (which led eventually to the founding of a museum), and a tireless activist for human rights, indigenous rights, and gay rights. In hundreds of articles and... -
What's Mexico Hiding?
MEXICO now has two presidents-elect. One officially recognized by the electoral authorities — Felipe Calderon — and the other proclaimed the "legitimate president" by millions of followers — Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. There is one...Tags: Censorship, Elections, Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Corporate Crime
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Mexico's communications chief trips over his words
A government secretary of communications ought to know a thing or two about, well, communications. And yet Mexico's communications secretary, Luis Tellez, has been embroiled in a scandal involving his private conversations, telephone calls and e-mail...Tags: Heads of State, Television Industry, Mexico, Theft, Death
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In Sinaloa, the drug trade has infiltrated 'every corner of life'
Yudit del Rincon, a 44-year-old lawmaker, went before the state legislature this year with a proposition: Let's require lawmakers to take drug tests to prove they are clean.
Her colleagues greeted the idea with applause. Then she sprang a surprise on...Tags: Elections, Criminals, Murder, Death, Gun Control
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PRD Backers Left Feeling Cheated
Times Staff WriterMEXICO CITY — Maria Gutierrez couldn't contain her outrage. After a night of watching election coverage of polling station tallies that gave her candidate, leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a slim lead into the wee hours of Thursday, she awoke...Tags: Mexico, Elections, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Cartoons, Corporate Crime
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