Film on Mexicoâs Disputed â06 Election Stirs Emotions
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A documentary about last yearâs disputed presidential election has drawn big crowds and generated controversy in Mexico.
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With Mexico&#039;s presidential election two weeks away, the drug wars are a central issue in the race, and the main candidates are all trying to look tough on the issue, while splitting over whether U.S.-style solutions are needed.
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A tight governor's race Sunday in Mexico's poorest state has become the latest political battleground for the country's leftist party, which is disputing the results of last month's presidential election.
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Anyone living in Canada who tuned into TVO last night saw an eye-opening documentary called El Contrato. The film, directed by Min Sook Lee, follows Teodoro Bello Martinez, a poverty-stricken father of four from Central Mexico, and several of his countrymen as they make their annual migration to southern Ontario to work for eight months of the year as migrant labourers picking tomatoes -- in return for wages and working conditions that no locals will accept. Despite their fear of almost certain repercussions, the workers voice their desire not just for better working conditions, but for the simple dignity and respect that all human beings deserve.     Growers hire foreign workers under the government's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP), which is administered by the Foreign Agricultural Resource Management Services (F.A.R.M.S) in Ontario (and by F.E.R.M.E. in Quebec, New Brunswick and P.E.I.). Because the growers monitor themselves, and because there is a long line of jobless men "back home" willing and eager to take the place of those in the program, the workers are as ripe for exploitation as the fruit they pick.
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The party of leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador demanded a ballot-by-ballot recount Tuesday in Mexico&#039;s closest-ever presidential race, claiming vote counts were manipulated and renewing fears of violent protests if the fiery politician doesn&#039;t get his way.
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Rowdy scenes break out in Mexico's Congress an hour before Felipe Calderon is due to be sworn in as president.
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After decades of one-party rule sustained by fraudulent elections, many Mexicans still deeply distrust their institutions and courts.
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Mexico's top electoral court will   make its final ruling on the fiercely disputed July 2 election   on Tuesday, and is almost certain to name ruling party   conservative Felipe Calderon as president-elect.
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A new film, which portrays the human side of Adolf Hitler, is causing controversy in Germany.
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Once compared to the Soviet  Communist Party for its monolithic grip on power, Mexico's  Institutional Revolutionary Party is now in turmoil over how to  win back the presidency it lost in the 2000 elections.
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This Anurag Kashyap's film is stirring some serious controversy just as the theme of his movie.
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JALAPA, Mexico  - Mexico's main opposition party  fought to hold on to one of its oldest electoral bastions ahead  of 2006 presidential elections, in a close governor's race on  Sunday in Veracruz state.
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For director Emilio Estevez, his new   movie about the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968 is a   call to young people to shake off their cynicism and engage in   the political process.
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Electoral officials fanned out across the country Wednesday to begin a partial recount in Mexico's tight presidential election, while leftists alleging vote fraud blocked bank headquarters in the capital and vowed to take their disruptive protests nationwide.
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The violence started in response to a flawed election, but it reveals a rift that may be beyond politicians' control
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Comment is free: Naomi Klein: To those who remember the violent campaigns against Zapatistas, the tensions today feel eerily, dangerously familiar
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Mexico&#039;s young democracy faced its greatest test yet Monday as the pro-business Felipe Calderon declared himself president-elect with a 380,000-vote advantage and his leftist rival vowed to use all &quot;legal means&quot; to challenge that apparent outcome.