Indigenous polling officers wait for voters in one of the polling stations in San Bartolome Quialana, Oaxaca state, Mexico. (JUAN CARLOS REYES, AFP/Getty Images / July 4, 2010) |
Posted on 07/05/2010 11:44:10 AM PDT by thecodont
Reporting from Mexico City — In elections marred by violence, intimidation and the growing influence of drug traffickers, Mexicans chose governors or other local officials in 14 states Sunday. Preliminary results Monday showed the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) winning most governorships but failing to alter its overall hold on power.
President Felipe Calderon's National Action Party, in alliance with leftist parties, stunned the PRI by winning in two of its historic bastions, Oaxaca and Puebla, according to preliminary results.
The PRI, which dominated Mexico for 70 years until 2000, had hoped a strong showing would bolster its campaign to retake the presidency when Calderon's term ends in two years.
The PRI was holding on to several states it has long governed plus gaining new ones. In Sinaloa, another PRI stronghold, the vote was too close to call, with the candidate representing a PAN-led coalition taking a small lead in partial returns.
Far beyond the results themselves, Sunday's elections in nearly half the nation were a test of whether drug cartels have been able to so frighten voters that the very democratic process is threatened. Four of the states picking governors Sunday — Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Durango and Tamaulipas — are among the country's deadliest.
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Indigenous polling officers wait for voters in one of the polling stations in San Bartolome Quialana, Oaxaca state, Mexico. (JUAN CARLOS REYES, AFP/Getty Images / July 4, 2010) |
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But if you read the article, as opposed to the headline, there was no violence related to the actual vote and vote count, it was all during the run-up to the election, and it is unclear whether all of it or any of it was political violence, but rather the daily narco-violence that Mexico is subject to. The headline makes it sound like the elections were a chaotic failure, they weren’t. In fact, the Mexicans managed to weed out their bad apple candidates BEFORE the election, unlike some other nations I might name.
Exactly. See my post below.
WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! This is all okay. Obama, Napolitano, Reid and Pelosi say this is all okay. What’s the big deal?
Violence and intimidation? So what? That’s LEGAL now in the US!!!
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