Mexico Vote Prompts Arson
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MEXICO CITY — Mexican opposition activists protesting what they called vote fraud set fire to election offices in the border town of Matamoros on Wednesday, the state news agency Notimex said. Matamoros is across the border from Brownsville, Tex.
Members of an opposition coalition defeated by the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in Tamaulipas state elections held Sunday set the office on fire with a Molotov cocktail, destroying ballot boxes held there, the agency said. No injuries were reported.
The PRI claimed victory in Sunday’s gubernatorial, municipal and state legislative elections.
A coalition representing the conservative National Action Party and the leftist Democratic Revolutionary Party rejected the results.
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