The result of the Mexican presidential election is the
return of power of the center-left Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI),
after a hiatus of twelve years, with the victory of Enrique Pena Nieto. The center-right, whose candidate came in
third place, had ruled in the meantime, leading to increased prosperity, but
without being able to end the drug gang wars near the border with
the United States . The main rival to Pena Nieto was a far-left
candidate sympathetic to Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chavez.
The PRI had ruled Mexico as a
notoriously-corrupt dictatorship for seventy years. Towards the end of its rule, while it clung
to power by election fraud, it had begun to reform democratically and
liberalize the economy, which it pledged during the campaign to continue. The PRI will have to be more successful than
its predecessor in defeating the vicious drug gangs.
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