Tag: mexico city

Now Mexico is becoming more progressive than the United States.

They must have taken a page right out of the old U.S.A. playbook on democracy: The daily newspaper El Universal reported 10 ballot boxes and a polling station report were found in a garbage dump in a poor neighbourhood on the edge of Mexico City. Activists demonstrated outside offices of the government’s prosecutor for electoral […]

This really seems like the Bush/Gore debacle all over again: Mexico’s conservative presidential candidate Felipe Calderon declared victory on Monday in a bitterly contested election result as official returns showed him ahead of his left-wing rival. Calderon said his lead was now “irreversible” because he had an advantage of more than 400,000 votes over Andres […]