Andrew Selee and Katie Putnam, Mexico Institute, 7/10/2009
Starting now: A discussion on Mexico’s Midterm Elections and the Future of Democracy with José Antonio Crespo and Jeffrey Weldon. The event will be webcast live from 12-2pm at wilsoncenter.org/mexico.
On July 5, Mexicans elected the five hundred members of the Chamber of Deputies (the lower house of Congress), [...]
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em>CNN, 7/10/2009
The sculptures speak for themselves: Piñatas in the shape of decapitated heads bearing gunshot wounds adorn the walls of El Paso’s Public Library in Texas.
The exhibit, called “Ciudad Juarez es the .1,” is the work of local artist Abel Saucedo, 24, a recent arts graduate of the University of Texas in El Paso.
Saucedo grew [...]
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Fundacion IDEA, 7/10/2009
On the 5th of July Mexico celebrated the conclusion of another midterm election that was distinguished not only by the return to power of the PRI, but by the large percentage of voter turnout.
The Preliminary Electoral Results Program (PREP) finished counting ballots on the 6th of July at 8:00 p.m. with information [...]
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