Mexican Election

Here's an article about the upcoming presidential election in Mexico. Natalie posted an article last week that talked about how Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a leftist candidate, is the frontrunner, and how thus it seems possible that Mexico is going to follow the leftist trend in Latin American governments. This article has a different focus-it talks about the right-of-center candidate, Felipe Calderon, who is from Vicente Fox's party and would maintain Fox's neoliberal economic policies. Calderon says he's running for president because, as the article quotes him saying, "I don't want Mexico to go backward." Although Lopez Obrador is the frontrunner and the article notes that one in five Mexicans don't even know who Calderon is, the article also suggests that he has a chance of winning in July. We have been hearing so much about the rise of the left in Latin America, it is interesting to see an article talking about the opposition.
Mexican Candidate Tries to Emerge from Fox's Shadow