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Alleging that Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party purchased up to 5 million votes to win the July 1 elections, activists are calling for international scrutiny of the suspected vote-buying and other irregularities.
The video above, posted Tuesday to YouTube, pleads for international intervention. It was shot by activists and supporters in Canada.
Mexican protesters gather in early June in Guadalajara to denounce presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto and the influence of corporate television on Mexico's electoral process. (Photo courtesy of Gabriel Saldana via Flickr under Creative Commons license. License details below.)
A protester in Mexico City holds a sign depicting PRI candidate Enrique Peña Nieto's hair. (Photo courtesy of JulieHagenbuch via Flickr under Creative Commons license. License details below.)
Kent Paterson
Frontera NorteSur
The impact of a social movement can often be gauged not only by the societal reception it gets, but also by the reaction it engenders. And Mexico’s “ I am 132 Movement” is no exception.
Born only several weeks ago as a Mexico City protest of private university students against the media imposition of presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and Green Party (PVEM) electoral alliance, the movement has since spread to large cities and small towns across the country.
In the Pacific coast tourist town of Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, an estimated 250 young people and their supporters took to the streets earlier this month to demonstrate against Peña Nieto and to call for the democratization of an electronic media dominated by two networks, Televisa and TV Azteça.
Supporter of PRD candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador displays campaign materials on June 23 in Calle Madero, Mexico City. Mexico will elect a new president and various other officials on July 1. (Photo courtesy Randal Sheppard via Flickr under Creative Commons license. License details below.)
Virtually uncovered in the US press and given secondary treatment in the Mexican national media, the local and state elections will have important consequences for the distribution of power during the next several years, especially considering the enhanced autonomy of municipal and state governments in relation to federal authority.
Kent Paterson
Frontera NorteSur
As Mexico’s political campaigns wind down in preparation for the big election day on July 1, mixed moods of doubt, anger, tension, confusion, excitement, exhaustion, resignation and hope grip the body politic.
Kent Paterson
Frontera NorteSur
In the United States, evangelical leaders have been at the forefront of pushing prayer in public schools. But in Mexico, they are in the vanguard in opposing it.
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In Mexico’s elections, the dead will be ‘spun’
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Esteban Illades
Univision News via New America Media
The estimated 50,000 dead in the Mexican War on Drugs will become victims once again. This time they’ll fall to political spin in the upcoming presidential campaigns.