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Mexico’s President Felipe Calder??n will deliver this year’s commencement address to Harvard Kennedy School graduates...
Though the Kennedy School did not request a specific topic for the address, Kennedy School Dean David T. Ellwood said that he “would expect and hope” that Calder??n, a former Mason Fellow at the Kennedy School who graduated with a MPA in 2000, speak about public service...
...fourth year of his six-year term, Calder??n has managed to reform Mexico’s tax system and public pension fund as well as overhaul the electoral laws since he took office...
Protesters clashed with police upon Mexican President Felipe Calder??n's arrival in Ciudad Jurez on March 16, three days after three people linked to the U.S. consulate were slain. The high-profile murders are the latest to rack Mexico's most violent city, where an estimated 4,500 people have been killed in drug-related attacks since 2008. With the crime surge increasing public discontent with the government's military-led offensive against cartels, Calder??n has promised to redirect some resources to social-reform programs...
...March 4, a law went into effect that allowed gay couples in Mexico City to wed, despite outcries from the Roman Catholic Church and President Felipe Calder??n's conservative National Action Party. With five other Latin American nations already recognizing same-sex civil unions, the region has become a major front in the gay-marriage battle. The law, passed last year by a solid majority, also grants same-sex couples the right to adopt children. Calder??n called the move unconstitutional and vowed to challenge it in court...