Mexican left creates 'parallel gov't'
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President Vicente Fox celebrated Independence Day at the traditional military parade Saturday, while supporters of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador massed at an outdoor gathering and acclaimed him leader of a "parallel government."
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President-elect Felipe Calderon named a governor tied to a violent crackdown on protesters to his Cabinet Tuesday, while leftist and ruling party lawmakers came to blows in Mexico's Congress over fears that the opposition would try to sabotage the inauguration.
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Barnstorming by bus throughout Mexico, Jorge Castaneda's low-budget, independent presidential campaign is designed to be a little unorthodox.
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Mexico's leftist presidential candidate said Thursday the electoral agency has abandoned its autonomous role and become a tool of the ruling party, and he promised to send campaign advisers abroad to lobby foreign governments for support in his battle for the presidency.
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After a campaign that split open Mexico&#039;s deep class divisions, voters were deciding Sunday whether to elect a free-spending leftist who pledges to put the poor first or a conservative politician who says private investment and free markets are the keys to prosperity.
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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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Mexican leftists, who say the July  2 election was stolen, declared their candidate their  "legitimate president" on Saturday, a symbolic move reducing  the risk of street protests to make the country ungovernable.
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MEXICO CITY -- Andr&#xE9;s Manuel L&#xF3;pez Obrador has given up efforts to have himself declared winner of Mexico's presidential race, but he still plans a parallel government to cater to the poor and keep alive his fight against the president-elect, a party spokesman said yesterday.
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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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Felipe Calderon was sworn in as Mexico's president on Friday despite fierce protests from leftist lawmakers who say he stole July's election and had vowed to stop him from taking the oath of office in Congress.
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Angry protesters sabotaged a   home-town public appearance by Mexico's president-elect on   Friday in what may be a taste of resistance to his rule vowed   by a leftist rival claiming election fraud, media reported.
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Mexico's former ruling party won two gubernatorial races and held narrow leads in two others Monday in an election showing that could make it a force in the 2006 national vote, in which the party seeks to regain the presidency it held for more than 70 years.
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexican President-elect Felipe Calder&#xF3;n named a hard-line conservative for interior minister yesterday and lawmakers slapped and pushed one another in a deepening political crisis three days before Calder&#xF3;n takes power.
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Vicente Fox, often criticized as a  paper cowboy for a tame performance in four years as Mexican  president, is now in a showdown with Congress and Mexico City's  popular mayor and at odds with Washington.
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The leftist who barely lost Mexico's presidential election criticized President Felipe Calderon's oil policies, promising unspecified consequences during a mass rally Sunday aimed at re-igniting his government-in-resistance.
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MEXICO CITY, Sept. 1 -- In a historic rebuke, opposition lawmakers seized control of Mexico's congressional chamber Friday and blocked President Vicente Fox from delivering his final State of the Nation address.
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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.