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2008

Friday 16 May 2008 WASHINGTON: FORMER MEXICAN PRESIDENT WARNS AGAINST REOPENING NAFTA
Former Mexican President Carlos Salinas warned that there's a misperception that is would be opportune to reopen the North American Free Trade Agreement between his country, the U.S. and Canada when in fact such an eventuality would lead to its cancellation. Mr. Salinas was in office when NAFTA was agreed in 1994. In remarks to the U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce, he compared reopening the accord to "a Pandora's box" of special interests seeking to have the deal skewed in their favour. The former president says the agreement has benefited all three trade partners by eliminating costly tariffs and encouraging cross-border investment. The two Democratic Party presidential candidates, Sens. Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton, have stated that if elected they would negotiate stronger environmental and labour protections within the framework of NAFTA. The event was also attended by the deputy head of mission at the Canadian embassy. Guy Saint-Jacques told the Reuters news agency that under NAFTA Canada has to share its resources with the U.S., which has turned out of advantage to the Americans with regard to energy security.

Saturday 10 May 2008 Brenda Martin released on full parole
After more than two years behind bars in two countries...

Saturday May 3, 2008 It was a bad year for press freedom in the world
10. Mexico. Drug trafficking, organized crime and official corruption are deadly beats.

Friday May 2, 2008 Martin back from Mexico jail
A tired but relieved Brenda Martin finally stepped onto Canadian soil yesterday, after more than two...Martin signed the documents on the advice of her Canadian criminal defence lawyer, who told her she would be immediately eligible for parole because she had already served more than a third of her sentence.

Sunday 27 April 2008 Running gunbattles broke out between suspected drug traffickers in Tijuana, Mexico on Saturday, killing 13 people and wounding nine others. All of the dead were believed to be drug traffickers. Eight suspects and one federal police officer were injured, none seriously. Police recovered 21 vehicles, many with bullet holes or U.S. licence plates, and a total of 54 guns at various points in the city where the battles broke out in the pre-dawn hours.

Stephen S. Poloz VP EDC Economics Weekly Commentary
Mexico Faces America’s Slump - February 13, 2008
Mexico has demonstrated its resilience through a number of global financial storms in recent years. Can that continue, with the U.S. economy teetering on the edge of recession? Past issues | his WN page

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Monday 11 February 2008 Nafta Is a Sweet Deal, So Why Are They So Sour?
The Mexican government must revamp its own system of supports that now favor mainly big farmers, and provide small farmers with access to credit and know-how. see Nafta

Wednesday 09 January 2008 President Felipe Calderon is defending the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and the United States. He says that the 1993 agreement, known as NAFTA, has generally been beneficial for Mexicans because it has given consumers access to a greater range of high-quality products at better prices. He made the statement after Mexican farm groups protested against the removal of the last remaining tariffs on foreign crops. On January 1, Mexico abolished its last protective tariffs on basic crops like corn, beans and sugar under the terms of NAFTA. Mexican farmers have complained that they will not be able to compete with American farmers who can sell cheaper products thanks to government subsidies.

2007

Monday 26 November 2007 President Felipe Calderon Sunday unveiled a sweeping plan to curb logging and protect millions of monarch butterflies. The butterflies migrate to the mountains of central Mexico each winter, covering trees and bushes and attracting visitors from around the world. The plan will put $4.6 million toward additional equipment and advertising for the existing Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. It covers a 50,000-hectare swath of trees and mountains that for thousands of years has served as the winter nesting ground to monarch butterflies. The new initiative is part of ongoing efforts to protect the butterflies, which are a huge tourist attraction and the pride of Mexico. In some areas, officials can even be found standing guard along highways and slowing cars that might accidentally hit a butterfly flying across the road.

Tuesday 09 October 2007 Mexican President Felipe Calderon has criticized the plan to build a 1,000-kilometre fence along the U.S. border to stop illegal immigration. Mr. Calderon told the ABC television network that it's better to build bridges than fences. The president expressed regret that the proposal by U.S. President George W. Bush to regularize the situation of some 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. failed to meet the approval of Congress. Mr. Calderon pointed to complaints by U.S. farmers that they lack workers to harvest their crops. The Mexican leader says he hopes that Mexico and the U.S. can see each other as partners as both of their economies face challenges from Asia.

Tuesday 21 August 2007 The Canadian government has announced $2 million of emergency aid for countries stricken by Hurricane Dean. The state-owned Pemex oil company has ordered the abandonment of its offshore oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico and has evacuated the 18,000 workers who operate them as Hurricane Dean approaches the Yucatan Peninsula. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says the hurricane could ascend from a Category Four storm to Category Five. The resort city of Cancun has arranged extra flights to enable visitors to flee. Cancun was devastated by Hurricane Wilma in 2005. Hurricane Dean has already killed 10 people as it proceeds through the Caribbean.

Wednesday 11 July 2007 The Mexican government reports that 210 Mexicans have died this year trying to cross the U.S. border illegally. The authorities in Mexico City note that the most dangerous period of the year for attempted crossings hasn't even begun yet because the summer temperatures in the U.S. state of Arizona will rise yet further. Last year, 425 Mexicans died trying to immigrate illegally to the U.S

Stephen S. Poloz VP EDC Economics Weekly Commentary
Mexican Resilience Increasing - May 9, 2007
Mexico has come a long way since the so-called Tequila crisis of 1994. Nowadays, Mexico gets caught up in global volatility just like everyone else, but is on the resilient end of the spectrum..
Consider how Mexico weathered the last couple of emerging market storms. In May of 2006, emerging markets retreated on evidence of slower global economic growth, declining commodity prices and rising international risk. The average emerging market bond spread widened by over 50 basis points, but Mexico’s rose by only 37. Mexico’s stock market fell by 18%, whereas Brazil fell by 26%. And, the Mexican peso fell by only 4% while Brazil fell by 16%. Past issues | his WN page

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Tuesday 16 January 2007 Mexico's economy
A tumbling oil price may strain the budget
Less than two weeks into the New Year, Mexico’s oil export price has dipped below its budgeted level, raising the risk that the government might have to consider adjustments to the 2007 budget. While the finance minister, Agustín Carstens, says this is not yet needed, the price drop could give greater impetus to the administration’s planned fiscal reforms, designed largely to decrease the federal treasury’s dependence on volatile oil income.

2006

Sunday 26 November 2006 Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced he'll attend the inauguration of Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon in Mexico City on Dec. 1. Mr. Harper says the two countries have a close friendship both on a bilateral level and as partners with the U.S. in the North American Free Trade Area, recalling as well that he welcomed Mr. Calderon in Ottawa at the end of October. Mr. Calderon was elected on July 2 to a six-year term as successor to President Vicente Fox.

Obrador 'inauguration' in Mexico

Sat 04/11/2006 rci Protesters demanding the governor's resignation in Mexico's southern state of Oaxaca are getting fresh support from Mexico's largest leftist group. The Democratic Revolution Party says it will join the protesters in a demonstration planned for Sunday. On Friday, demonstrators forced federal police from one of their strongholds during violent clashes in the colonial city of Oaxaca. Striking teachers, native people and leftist activists have been staging protests there for the past five months. The violence has killed at least nine people. The demonstrators demand that Governor Ulises Ruiz be removed from office because of his alleged abuse of power. He says he has a mandate to govern and will not step down.

Saturday 04 November 2006 rci Mexican police again lost control of downtown Oaxaca on Thursday to protesters who had occupied the area for five months before the police temporarily beat them back last weekend. Thousands of protesters threw Molotov cocktails at the riot police, who retreated while using tear gas and water cannons. Local residents joined the protesters. The protesters forced the police out of Oaxaca entirely in June. The crisis in the city southeast of the capital started over a teachers' strike but expanded as leftists and Indians joined the protest. President Vicente Fox has vowed he'll end the conflict before he yields office on Dec. 1 to his successor, Felipe Calderon.

rci The standoff between protesters and police continues in the Mexican city of Oaxaco, southeast of the capital. The protesters have rebuilt several barricades in the city's downtown, one of them near a university campus that was the scene of clashes on Thursday. The police were forced to retreat under a hail of rocks and firebombs. President Vicente Fox sent thousands of federal police to Oaxaca last weekend who cleared the city's central square but have failed to control the rest of Oaxaca. The crisis in the city southeast of the capital started over a teachers' strike but expanded as leftists and Indians joined the protest. Mr. Fox has vowed he'll end the conflict before he yields office on Dec. 1 to his successor, Felipe Calderon.

Wednesday 01 November 2006 The Mexican government has acknowledged that its claim on Monday of having gained control of the city of Oaxaca south of Mexico City isn't accurate. The government of President Vicente Fox sent hundreds of police to Oaxaca to wrest control of the city from the protesters who have occupied its downtown for the past five months in an effort to force the provincial governor to quit. But the protesters have erected new barriers, while businesses around the central square remain closed, as do Oaxaca's schools. Groups of young people are roaming the city's streets throwing Molotov cocktails and stealing cars. The protesters accuse Gov. Ulises Ruiz of suppressing dissent and of having rigged the 2004 provincial election.

Sun 29/10/2006 Riot police with armoured trucks moved on Sunday into the centre of Oaxaca, where protesters demonstrated to have the local governor removed. Mexico's government has issued an ultimatum to protestors. President Vincente Fox says that they must lift barricades and end their occupation of the southern colonial city. At least six people have died in the unrest, which began in May to back demands for the ouster of Governor Ulises Ruiz who is accused of abuse of power. In one recent incident, three people, including a U.S. journalist filming the protests, were shot dead on Friday by masked gunmen.

Saturday 28 October 2006 Mexico's president-elect Felipe Calderon has ended a visit to Canada aimed at improving bilateral relations and increasing trade between the two countries. During his visit, he held talks with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other top Canadian government officials. During a news conference, Mr. Calderon took the opportunity to criticize the United States for building a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border, calling it an embarrassment. The fence is to keep Mexican migrants from illegally entering the U.S. Mr. Calderon claims the fence will be expensive to American taxpayers and lead to more Mexican deaths. On Thursday, U.S. President George W. Bush signed a bill authorizing construction of an 1,100 kilometer fence along a the border with Mexico.

Thursday 26 October 2006 OTTAWA, MEXICO CITY: FUTURE MEXICAN LEADER VISITS
Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon is due in Ottawa on Thursday at the start of a two-day visit for talks with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He and his host were to discuss ways to increase the flow of goods and services between their nations, which with the U.S. comprise the North American Free Trade Area. Mr. Calderon and his host will also discuss the possibility of increasing the 12,000 Mexican seasonal agricultural workers who labour across Canada each year. The meeting in the Canadian capital coincides with the planned signing in Washington by U.S. President George W. Bush of legislation authorizing the construction of a 1,100-kilometre fence along the U.S. border with Mexico to keep out illegal immigrants, a measure which Mexico has denounced. In Mexico City, the Canadian Press news agency has been told by Mr. Calderon's foreign affairs adviser, Arturo Sarukhan, that both Canada and Mexico should oppose the fence and that Canada should use its influence for that purpose with the Americans. Mr. Sarukhan says it's ironical that the Americans, who laboured so long to get rid of the Berlin Wall, would be building one of their own.

Friday 13 October 2006 Mexico's president-elect Felipe Calderon says the construction of fence by the United States along the Mexican border will complicate relations between their two countries. The fence is meant to stop the flow of Mexicans illegally entering the U.S. Mexicans are angry over the proposed fence especially as the two countries have been discussing ways to reach an agreement on immigration. U.S. President Bush signed a law last week that will allow funding for hundreds of kilometres of new fences along the border.

Thursday 12 October 2006 rci Mexico's top businessman is supporting President-elect Felipe Calderon's long-term plan to eliminate poverty and illiteracy by boosting the economy and improving education. Carlos Slim, a telecommunications tycoon, says the Calderon project is what Mexico's needs. Mr. Slim has enormous influence in Mexico and his support or criticism is closely followed in business and political circles. Mr. Calderon takes over the presidency on Dec. 1 from Vicente Fox.

Saturday 07 October 2006 rci Mexico's President-elect Felipe Calderon warns that the construction of a fence along the United States-Mexico border will lead to more deaths as people try to cross a frontier that has remote deserts and treacherous rivers. Currently, the annual death toll of Mexicans trying to illegally enter the U-S is 400. Mexico has strongly opposed the fences as the U.S. tries to reduce illegal immigration. Earlier this week, President George W. Bush signed a law to build fences along 1,300 kilomteres of border shared with Mexico. An estimated 12 million illegal immigrants live in the United States, many of whom entered through the open border with Mexico.

Tuesday 03 October 2006 The Mexican government has denounced the approval of the U.S. Congress of the construction of a 1,200-long barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border designed to keep illegal immigrants from Mexico out of the U.S. The Mexican government says such a construction can only create a useless climate of tension between the two nations, claiming that the vote in Congress is based upon electoral considerations just a few weeks before the mid-term Congressional elections in the U.S. The measure still has to be approved by U.S. President George W. Bush, who could veto it. Each year, half-a-million Mexicans and citizens of Central American states cross the border illegal, and 11 million are now thought to be U.S. residents.

Monday 11 September 2006 Mexico's president-elect Felipe Calderon says a solution has to be found to stop illegal workers from entering the United States. He suggests both countries should try to resolve the problem, which has already led to the U.S. strengthening its border security with Mexico. Mr. Calderon is considered an ally of the U.S. but he warns that it should recognize that illegal immigration is a fact of life. Mr. Calderon will be sworn in as Mexico's president on Dec. 1, replacing Vincente Fox. Mr. Calderon's July 2 presidential victory is challenged by his rival Andres Manuel Obrador Lopez, who alleged voting fraud. Mexico's electoral court officially declared Mr. Calderon the winner this week.

Wednesday 06 September 2006 Election Ruling in Mexico Goes to Conservative
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. Conservative candidate Felipe Calderón was declared Mexico's next president on Tuesday, but his rival vowed to continue protests.

Saturday 02 September 2006 Mexican protestors silence Fox
MEXICO CITY—Vicente Fox was forced to forego the last state-of-the-nation address of his presidency yesterday after leftist lawmakers stormed the stage of Congress to protest disputed July 2 elections.

Wednesday 30 August 2006 In Mexico, defeated presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has refused to accept the results of a partial vote recount of the July 2 presidential election. Mexico's top electoral court dismissed allegations of massive fraud in the election. The ruling now opens the way for Felipe Calderon to become president. The vote recount was asked for by Mr. Obrador shortly after he lost the election by less than one percent of the 40 million ballots cast. He claimed there was voting fraud. Since the election, Lopez Obrador supporters have been staging demonstrations in Mexico City. President-elect Calderon has asked that the street protests stop.

Monday, August 28, 2006; wp In Mexico, the Cardinal and the 'Crazies'
Religion Colors Politics as Catholic Leaders Take Stand on Presidential Fight

18 August 2006 ind Fears of more violence in Mexico as protesters refuse to concede election
Political tensions continued to mount in Mexico as supporters of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the leftist candidate who came a tantalisingly close second in the 2 July presidential election, maintained their blockade of the main avenues of the capital, Mexico City, into a third week.

Tuesday 15 August 2006 Mexico's electoral tribunal has completed its partial recount of the ballots cast in the July 2 election. The recount came at the request of losing left-wing candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who unsuccessfully had demanded a full recount. The tribunal hasn't made public the results of the recount, but an associate of Mr. Obrador says they narrowed Mr. Calderon's official winning margin by 100,000 votes to 233,000. Nonetheless, Mr. Obrador continues to insist that the vote was fraudulent. His backers are threatening to disrupt Mexico's national day or the presidential speech of outgoing President Vicente Fox if the tribunal maintains Mr. Calderon's victory. Mr. Obrador's supporters have occupied Mexico City's downtown square and a major thoroughfare for the past two weeks.

rci Tuesday 01 August 2006 A leftist leader in Mexico who claims he was robbed of victory in recent presidential elections led hundreds of thousands of people in a protest on Sunday. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador urged them to occupy the capital until all the votes were recounted. He told his supporters at a protest rally to occupy Zocalo square, one of the largest in the world, as well as main roads running through the city centre. A protest of such size would cause traffic chaos in the capital, including the main financial district. It would mark the start of a campaign of civil disobedience to protest alleged fraud in the election on July 2.

Sun 30/07/2006 A leftist leader in Mexico who claims he was robbed of victory in recent pesidential elections led hundreds of thousands of people in a protest on Sunday. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador urged them to occupy the capital until all the votes were recounted. He told his supporters at a protest rally to occupy Zocalo square, one of the largest in the world, as well as main roads running through the city centre. A protest of such size would cause traffic chaos in the capital, including the main financial district. It would mark the start of a campaign of civil disobedience to protest alleged fraud in the election on July 2.

Friday 21 July 2006 Mexico's Roman Catholic Church has appealed for a calming of political passions resulting from the July 2 presidential election. Four bishops made the appeal in major newspapers on Thursday. Conservative candidate Felipe Calderon won the election by a tiny margin, but his main adversary, left-leaning Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has mounted a legal challenge of the result, claiming fraud. Mexico's electoral tribunal won't rule on the challenge until September. The Catholic Church has called for a week of prayer for reconciliation starting on July 31.

Tuesday 18 July 2006 WP Mexico crisis deepens with civil resistance plan
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A campaign of civil resistance by leftists to force a recount in Mexico's disputed presidential election will start this week, taking the U.S. ally further down the road of crisis.

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Sat 08/07/2006 rci Election monitors from the European Union say they've found no irregularities in Mexico's
disputed presidential election. The U.S. State Department has also described the vote as "free and fair". The final tally showed that just a few thousand votes separated the two candidates. Conservative Felipe Calderon of the National Action Party finished with 35.88 percent against 35.31 percent for Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Party of the Democratic Revolution. The victory is the closest in any presidential election held in Mexico. Mr. Lopez Obrador has said he'll mount a legal challenge of the result on grounds of fraud. And he's vowing to launch protests to back his demands. Mr. Calderon has begun spelling out his policies, saying he wants to form a coalition government. But he says that the opposition must support him in the legislature if they want to join.

MEXICO CITY, July 3 - The latest uncertified results in Sunday's fiercely contested Mexican presidential election show a slim lead for the conservative candidate, Felipe Calderón.

Monday, July 03, 2006 Mexican Vote Hinges on Conflicted Middle Class Mexico's middle-class families are avidly being courted by the two leading presidential candidates.

Monday Jun 19, 2006
Audio Slide Show: A Fence With More Beauty, Fewer Barbs
The Times asked architects and urban planners to devise a fence between the U.S. and Mexico. Three of them discuss their ideas.
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Mexico Worries About Its Own Southern Border Even as its officials denounce Washington's plans, Mexico has begun a re-examination of its own immigration policies.
"This society does not see migrants as human beings, it sees them as criminals."
LUCÍA DEL CARMEN BERMÚDEZ, a Mexican government official, on Central Americans who cross its southern border.

Audio Slide Show: A Fence With More Beauty, Fewer Barbs
The Times asked architects and urban planners to devise a fence between the U.S. and Mexico. Three of them discuss their ideas.
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Guard Troops Set to Begin Mission on Mexican Border The first National Guard troops ordered to the United States-Mexico border are expected to begin work by Sunday.

Saturday Mar 18, 2006 rci The government of Mexico says it will begin extraditing drug lords wanted in the United States. President Vicente Fox says the legal process of handing over traffickers wanted by the U.S. had already begun and that the traffickers would have to serve their sentences in American prisons. That marks a major policy shift because under Mexican law, drug traffickers had to serve out their prison sentences in Mexico before being jailed in the United States. The United States has been pressing for the extradition of drug kingpins for years but Mexican legislation made it difficult.

Saturday Dec 24, 2005 rci Mexico is trying to form a united front in Latin America against any plan by the United States to build a fence along hundreds of kilometres of the southern part of U.S.-Mexico border. Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an immigration bill backing the fence which would be a little more than 1,100 kilometres long. The fence is aimed at stopping illegal immigrants from entering the United States. It's estimated that every day, 1,500 Latin Americans, mostly from Mexico, cross into the U.S. illegally. Mexican President Vincente Fox is angry with the U.S. proposal, calling it shameful.

Wednesday Dec 7, 2005 nyt Most Mexican Immigrants in New Study Gave Up Jobs to Take Their Chances in U.S.
By NINA BERNSTEIN
Unlike the stereotype of jobless Mexicans heading north, most of the immigrants had been employed in Mexico, the report found.

Nov 24th 2005 | SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE ec Go south, old man
The gringos are moving where the living is easy

Thursday Nov 17, 2005 rci Mexico's top official dealing with illegal drugs says that Venezuela has become a major shipping point for heroin trafficking. The official says 17 of 20 heroin shipments seized at Mexico International Airport in the past two years came from that country. However, he denies that there's any connection with his revelations and the ongoing diplomatic dispute between the two countries. Venezuela and Mexico recalled each other's ambassadors after the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez rejected a political ultimatum by Mexico that the Venezuelan government apologize for remarks made by President Hugo Chavez, who called Mexican President Fox a lapdog to the U.S. Mr. Chavez was critical of Vicente Fox's support for the U.S.-backed project to form a Free Trade Zone of the Americas at a recent summit in Mar Del Plata, Argentina, a project which Mr. Chavez opposes. The Mexican government had warned that unless an apology was forthcoming, it would recall its ambassador in Caracas and order the Venezuelan envoy to leave Mexico City. Canada also supports the idea of an hemispheric free-trade area.

Wednesday Nov 16, 2005 ts Mexican shopkeeper wins her own cola war
Mexico has imposed its biggest anti-monopoly fines ever ? $68 million (U.S.) ? against Coca-Cola and dozens of its distributors and bottlers.

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Tuesday Nov 15, 2005 rci Venezuela has recalled its ambassador to Mexico after the government rejected a political ultimatum by Mexico that the Venezuelan government apologize for remarks made by President Hugo Chavez, who called Mexican President Fox a lapdog to the U.S. Mr. Chavez was critical of Vicente Fox's support for the U.S.-backed project to form a Free Trade Zone of the Americas at a recent summit in Mar Del Plata, Argentina, a project which Mr. Chavez opposes. The Mexican government had warned that unless an apology was forthcoming, it would recall its ambassador in Caracas and order the Venezuelan envoy to leave Mexico City. Canada also supports the idea of an hemispheric free-trade area.

Monday Nov 14, 2005 Venezuela, Mexico recall their ambassadors The Summit of the Americas was no triumph for free-traders and the situation between Venezuela and Mexico is now becoming downright nasty as the two countries recall their ambassadors - calling a Fox a puppy is not nice!

Monday Apr 25, 2005 rci One of the largest rallies in Mexico's history was held in Mexico City on Sunday to voice support for the city's mayor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who faces possible criminal charges and has become a target of a federal government campaign. The crowd numbering hundreds of thousands of people waved banners and vilified President Vicente Fox as a dictator. Mr. Lopez Obrador appeared before the crowd to criticize his political enemies and to promise an assault on poverty if he is elected president in polls to be held next year. His pronounced policies have worried business leaders who fear the election of a populist government in Mexico, a major oil exporter. Opinion surveys show that he is in the lead in popularity. An attempt to press criminal charges against him was rejected by a judge last week, but the charges could be refiled in the next few days.

Thursday Apr 7, 2005 nyt
Let Mexico's Voters Decide The campaign for president of Mexico has taken on the air of the bad old days, when the dictatorial PRI, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, loaded elections for its candidates. The top contender, Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico City, is expected to be barred from the 2006 race by a transparently political indictment on charges of ordering the construction of a service road to a hospital after a judge said no .... He may not be the right man for the presidency, but that issue should be for Mexico's electorate to decide.

Thursday Apr 7, 2005 nyt
Move Against Mexico City Mayor Sets Off Protests
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - About 150,000 Mexicans poured into the streets on Thursday to support Mexico City's leftist mayor, who furiously decried a drive to knock him out of the 2006 presidential race as an assault on democracy.

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