Public Policy Scholar Alfredo Corchado and Mexico Institute Director Andrew Selee appeared on "Forum" on San Francisco's KQED to discuss Mexico's elections.

The elections of Sunday, July 4th, in fourteen Mexican states can be seen as a struggle for Mexican territories by diverse power groups, including the drug cartels.  And in the case of Oaxaca, it is, furthermore, the exercise of its citizenship by an aggrieved population whose movement was defeated in 2006, and which has subsequently turned to voting as a manifestation of their rejection of Ulises Ruiz and the political group that he represents. Read more

Andrew Selee, director of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute, joined AS/COA for a teleconference covering the July 4 Mexican gubernatorial elections. Selee gave an overview of how the three major political parties—the Institutional Revoulutionary Party (PRI), the National Action Party (PAN), and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD)—fared at the ballot box. In a dialogue with callers, he discussed prospects for future PAN-PRD political alliances and a whether the PRI is, in fact, seeing a resurgence. http://www.as-coa.org/article.php?id=2519  

Cecilia Farfán MéndezJune 22, 2010

It has been just over a year since the citizens of the United States elected Barack Obama as their president. In an op-ed for the National Post, Colin Robertson writes: "For Canada, we only have one neighbour and, like it or not, it is the one relationship that we have to get right." One year later, in contrast to the days of former-President George W. Bush, Canadians are increasing viewing our "special relationship" with our one neighbour as a positive thing.

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