Mexico: What's Old is New Again

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The PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) was the predominant political party in Mexico for most of the last century. The party maintained the presidency from 1929 until 2000, though each election was plagued with massive voting fraud.

Having been out of power for two voting cycles (the term of each Mexican president is 6 years), the PRI has won once again, though some suspect that fraud once again played a key role in the victory of Enrique Pena Nieto. A massive recount has now begun.


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"The leftist leader never accepted those results."

The Left NEVER accept the results if they don't win,in any Country.

It's Mexico. Just you're typical leftist h@ll-hole.

Makes no difference what party runs the country.

More conservatives are fleeing San Diego and Los Angeles every day. Of course they bought votes, next the leftist in Mexico will simply make people disappear. I'd be worried as far north as San Francisco after this really.

Ah, Mexico.

By the Mexican government's own reckoning, nearly 50,000 people have been killed in the drug war down there since 2006.

Fifty thousand!

Meanwhile we fuss and fidget about the situation over in Syria...

dmorris, exacty.

Mexico, coming soon to a town near you.

Mexico is a 3rd world septic tank of a country whose own people can t get out of fast enough.Sad part is that they have vast oil and gas resources that contribute huge amounts of money to the National treasury,where does that money go?certainly not for the benefit of the general populace.

They might as well just have an official Cocaine Cartel Party and get it over with.

People that vote on the wrong end of an AK-47 vote for any douche-rocket "revolutionary"
Not news.

I think the overwelming element of Mexican political culture is deep corruption and minor tyranny. They are one nation where their revolutions lead to deeper and deeper corrupt leadership - surprise me this time - not!

Moderated
People should not be forced to vote for the wrong end of a rifle.
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The good news is that the PRI presidential guy favors economic reform to make foreign investment into the oil sector easier and wants to make labor laws more flexible. Bad news is that he doesn't want to change the tack on the War on Drugs very much. Best news is that Mexico is improving a lot and has a burgeoning middle class.

"Institutional Revolution" is an oxymoron.

The leftists are complaining?? I didn't think you could get much further to the left than the PRI already!! After all, the PRI was quite friendly with the Soviets and Cubans (Mexico City was known as "spy central" for easy liaisons between every Commie and international terror org during the cold war). And if you wanted to fly to Cuba, the Soviet bloc, or make a connecting flight to a terrorist camp in the Mid-East everybody knew that the best way to do it practically undetected was through Mexico City. Thanks to the PRI.

I was quite amazed to hear even the CBC call the PRI an "extreme right-wing" Mexican Party. The Western media is so far Left and so engaged in historical revisionism that the next thing you know they will be calling the regime in North Korea "moderate".

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