Some things about Mexico’s 2012 presidential election are strangely reminiscent of the same time back in 2006: an intensive questioning of the transparency of the electoral process and a familiar chant: “Vote by vote, voting booth by voting booth!”
On Sunday, exit polls and preliminary results from the Federal Electoral Institute positioned Enrique [...]
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There are less than 48 hours left until Mexican citizens march off to the voting booths and cast their final vote on who will rule the country for the coming years. While polls position Enrique Peña Nieto, the candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), as the sure winner of what [...]
Only two years have passed since Mexico hosted the United Nation’s 2010 edition of the Climate Change Conference, COP 16, in Cancun, where most of the delegates left the conference in a breezy mood, feeling like the world had at least taken a modest step forward. However, recent events make it seem like [...]
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