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...because of its size and strategic location, the most pressing challenge to democracy in Latin America is Manuel López Obrador, the Mexican presidential candidate who refuses to acknowledge his defeat in July’s election. The winner of the election, the current president, and even the founder of his own party have all called on Obrador to concede, as have many foreign nations. Although his opponent won by less than 1 percent, Mexico’s electoral court declared the process valid and European election monitors testify that, for once, there was no fraud...
...lust and avoid tricky semantics to stay in power. Countries cannot rewrite their past, and, therefore, wishing for “better luck next time” to cultural heritage or history is impossible. But America, and the world as a whole, must indeed pressure leaders like López Obrador to honor the institutions it took much blood to uphold...
What may ultimately erode Chvez's stature are exactly the things that he has skillfully used to boost it. As the price of oil begins to fall, critics predict Chvez's radical influence will too. Some analysts believe that Mexico's leftist candidate, Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador, narrowly lost the recent presidential race in large part because his conservative opponent painted him as a Chvez clone. The same thing happened a month earlier in presidential elections in Peru...
...this point, though, Cruz is more likely to witness the second coming of Montezuma than to see Lpez Obrador, the former mayor of Mexico City, declared President. There is little compelling evidence that victory was stolen from him. To many observers, including prominent Mexican leftists, his refusal to accept the fact that he did lose--if only by 243,000 votes out of 41 million cast--is no longer democratic protest but demagogic petulance. Polls show that Mexicans are exasperated by the massive political street fair, complete with mariachi bands and the aromas of regional cooking. But the most...
...smartly stayed calm about his opponent's postelection outbursts, perhaps realizing how raw the memories of decades of PRI-engineered election fraud are in the minds of his countrymen. Caldern last week praised the electoral tribunal for "eliminating the insidious doubts" about his victory that he says Lpez Obrador has planted. Still, when Caldern takes the presidential podium, he will face the more daunting task of eliminating Mexico's doubts about the future of its democracy...