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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A monthlong festival called MexicoNow has highlighted the challenges of defining cultural identity.
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Lawyers for a leftist presidential candidate urged the top electoral court Saturday to order a recount of Mexico's extremely close elections, arguing it would clear up a dispute that has tested the country's young democracy.
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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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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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The high cost of tortillas and other food staples has consumed politics and spilled into the ever-simmering debate over Mexicoâs commitment to free-market economics.
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One film provides a positive message of unity. Another dramatizes the president's difficult days. A third offers sympathy to a nation wounded on Sept. 11, but includes foreign filmmakers' points of view.
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The popularity of political films may signal a change in the way Americans choose to be informed.
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Six years after his astonishing victory ended 71 years of one-party rule, many people see Vicente Fox as the president who squandered a golden opportunity to turn Mexico around.
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Mexican police said Saturday they had broken up a vote-buying scheme in Chiapas on the eve of state elections, which will be closely watched in a country already straining under the turmoil of a disputed presidential election last month.
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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.
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JALAPA, Mexico  - Mexico's main opposition party  put in a tepid performance in elections in a state it has run  since the 1920s, as it hit a bump on the long road toward its  goal of returning to power nationally in 2006.
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Mexican President Vicente Fox faces   a rough ride at his last state of the nation speech on Friday,   with leftist lawmakers planning to hijack the ceremony to   protest at what they say was election fraud.
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MEXICO CITY -- Since being declared president-elect a week ago, Felipe Calder&#xF3;n, the conservative leader of the governing National Action Party, is spreading a message of conciliation and tolerance as he confronts a charismatic leftist opponent who insists that the election was rigged and who refuses to concede defeat.
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This stirring, idealistic documentary about the grass-roots cooperative movement in Argentina raises basic questions about economics, government and human nature.
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Mexico's leftist presidential   candidate, whose mass street protests over alleged vote fraud   have put him at odds with much of the country, has now fallen   afoul of the influential Roman Catholic church.