Mexico tense ahead of key speech
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Mexico's outgoing president prepares to address parliament amid tight security after contested elections.
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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 City is preparing to legalize abortion -- the first region to do so in heavily Roman Catholic Mexico -- a move the influential church has vowed to challenge.
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Politicians and media leaders appealed for calm in Mexico's capital on Wednesday, warning that a bitter split between the left and right following disputed presidential elections could grow more serious.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Mexican President Vicente Fox says his country has undergone radical change, and is far removed now from a period when the president ruled through fear.
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Mexico at last will have a final decision Tuesday on its disputed July 2 presidential race, with the nation's top electoral court expected to declare ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon president-elect.
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Congress was surrounded by police, soldiers and towering concrete and metal barriers Thursday in advance of President Vicente Fox's state-of-the-nation address, which is shaping up to be a major showdown with protesters demanding a recount of the July 2 election results.
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Mexico warned the United States  not to interfere in its affairs on Thursday in a fight over  drug wars on their sensitive border where Washington seeks  close cooperation against terror.
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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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THE rolling upheaval in corporate governance is about to head south of the border, and Ricardo B. Salinas Pliego, one of the more prominent businessmen in Mexico, probably won't be shouting,
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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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Fears of disruption force Mexico's president to hold Independence Day celebrations outside the capital.
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MEXICO CITY -- Andr&#xE9;s Manuel L&#xF3;pez Obrador, convinced he won't be awarded the presidency, has vowed to create a parallel leftist government and is urging Mexicans not to recognize the apparent victory of the ruling party's Felipe Calder&#xF3;n.
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Riot police, steel barriers, and water cannons surrounded Mexico's Congress as protesters vowed to stop President Vicente Fox from delivering his final state-of-the-nation address Friday, fueling fears the country's electoral crisis could turn violent.
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A major security operation is under way in Chile ahead of the annual summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation group (Apec).
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All is not quiet on the speech front.
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When the next president takes office, one of his most daunting tasks will be breaking the diplomatic wall of ice that has formed between Mexico and its neighbor to the north.