Mexico's Calderon takes power, lawmakers brawl
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Felipe Calderon took over as Mexico's president on Friday and pleaded for an end to months of unrest over his narrow election win, but a huge brawl erupted in Congress where leftist opponents vowed to block him from taking the formal oath of office.
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Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon defied leftist protesters on Thursday by vowing to hold his inauguration in Congress, risking clashes with lawmakers who claim he stole the July election with fraud.
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The President-elect of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, announces his first cabinet appointments.
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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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The ruling party&#039;s Felipe Calderon won the official count in Mexico&#039;s disputed presidential race Thursday, a come-from-behind victory for the stiff technocrat. But his leftist rival refused to concede and said he&#039;d fight the results in court.
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Mexico's Congress approved a landmark tax overhaul on Friday, handing President Felipe Calderon a major legislative victory and Mexico its biggest economic reform in a decade.
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President Felipe Calderon pledged "a hard and difficult battle" against gangs Wednesday, a day after gunmen wounded the top security official in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco and killed his driver.
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Mexico's top electoral court is expected to declare Felipe Calderon president-elect when it rules on Tuesday.
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Conservative ruling party candidate   Felipe Calderon won Mexico's July 2 election and is   president-elect, a top court said on Tuesday after a long fight   over fraud claims that has plunged the country into crisis.
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Ballots from Mexico's disputed presidential vote are to be burnt, despite a plea by President-elect Felipe Calderon.
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Bitter political rivalries flared at independence celebrations in Mexico for a second year in a row.
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A political feud that has sharply   polarized Mexico's left and right soured the country's most   important national fiesta when two opposing leaders hosted   rival ceremonies ahead of independence day on Saturday.
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MEXICO CITY -- Felipe Calder&#xF3;n, protected by a scrum of sympathetic lawmakers, ignored catcalls and rushed through the presidential oath of office in the congressional chamber yesterday, making a chaotic start to a term in which he pledged to heal a country divided by his narrow victory.
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Opposition legislators sprawled across the congressional speaker's platform in their standoff with ruling conservatives Wednesday, vowing not to budge in hopes of blocking Friday's inauguration of President-elect Felipe Calderon.
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Mexico's defeated candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, is inaugurated as president of a "parallel government".
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Friday named a single commander for two federal police agencies and appointed a former peace negotiator with the Zapatista rebels as head of Indian affairs.
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Felipe Calderon took power as Mexico's president on Friday but he faces a rough reception from leftist opponents who claim he stole July's election and plan to stop him from being sworn in later in the day.