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Article: Mexico on edge: loser in presidential election refuses to accept results.(Cover story)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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MEXICO CITY -- Is Mexico one country or two? A look at the map shows one country south of the U.S. border. But recent events in Mexico seem to show a country deeply divided, almost split in two.
The split is not geographical. It is a divide among the Mexican people about how their country should be governed. On July 2, about 41 million Mexican voters went to the polls to choose a new president. In the closest election in Mexican history, the voters chose Felipe Calderon of the National Action Party to succeed Vicente Fox as president for the next six years. (In Mexico, the president is allowed one 6-year term.) Calderon's margin of victory was about 240,000 ...