Electoral violence has marred the run-up to the June 2 vote. But despite fears over personal safety, support for democracy endures.
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Mexico will elect its first woman president on Sunday.
Mexican elections have been marred by political violence for years, and this year will be no different.
Many Mexicans fear that the democratic safeguards set up after decades of authoritarian rule are being undermined.
Mexicans want leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador to transform the country. But the months leading up to his inauguration sent worrying signs about how he he will use the massive power of his office.
Mexico’s leftist president-elect made many strange bedfellows to win the 2018 race, including business moguls, evangelicals and Marxists. How this motley new party will run Mexico is anyone’s guess.
An election that proceeded mostly without manipulation or intimidation augurs well for Mexico’s future.
The election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico could bring about stable change in a country marked by violence and social polarization.
More worrying for Labor than Bill Shorten’s bad, though, is Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s rising ratings.
Leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor and career outsider, won Mexico’s July 1 presidential election in a landslide. The US-Mexico relationship is about to change.
El Día Después is an important initiative led by the cultural and intellectual elite, for all Mexicans.
Trump’s anti-immigrant policies are leading more Central Americans to stay put in Mexico. Mexico’s presidential candidates have a lot to say about that, and none of it involves mass deportations.
Mexico’s presidential front-runner wants to end violence in Mexico by pardoning drug traffickers and corrupt officials. Some 235,000 people have died in the country’s 11-year cartel war.
Almost 50 independents want to run for president of Mexico in 2018. But only a handful will likely make the ballot, in part due to the glitchy election app voters must use to show their support.
Mexico’s 2018 presidential race hasn’t even begun, but it’s already a nail-biter, featuring two women, a left-wing firebrand, party defections, strange bedfellows and no small dose of scandal.
Can the U.S. recover its once positive image among Mexicans? Trade, immigration and cultural ties stand to suffer.
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