2006 presidential elections in Mexico

He also harboured national political ambitions, but his party at the time, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), suffered a defeat in the presidential election in 2006. Both the US and Mexico accuse him of having links to drug-trafficking while he was state governor. He faces jail terms of 20 years in ...

Four months before Texans elect their governor, senators and representatives, Mexicans living in the U.S. will help decide their next president. Although Mexicans living outside of Mexico have been able to participate in that country's past two presidential elections, this will mark the first time Mexican ...

A fresh wave of violence is sweeping through Mexico as the country prepares to choose its new president on July 1. Powerful drug cartels are battling for influence and have been targeting politicians they think might get in their way. According to an investigation by Reuters, at least 82 candidates and ...

Alfredo Corchado, the Border-Mexico correspondent for The Dallas Morning News, covered the presidential campaign launch this week of one candidate in the northern states of Mexico. "It is a far more prosperous, wealthy area than the rest of Mexico," he said. "And yet, these are states that are engulfed in ...

These have been described as "the biggest election in Mexican history" according to the National Electoral Institute (INE) due to the number of public issues being debated. On the same day. 30 out of 32 states will also hold local elections. This election will redefine the role of the government in areas such ...

The massive body count has deeply affected Mexican politics and is part of the coming Mexican political campaign that will elect a new president and Congress (500 deputies, 128 senators) and ... In 2006 and 2012, Mexicans in the U.S. had to return physically to Mexico to vote at border voting stations.

Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal attends a side event on "Combatting atrocity, crimes, corruption and impunity in Mexico" during the Human Rights Council at the United Nations ... The run-up to a presidential election in July has also been marred by violence. "Elections are coming, stakes are pretty high.

More than 36 million people of Mexican origin live in the United States, 12 million of whom were born in Mexico, and our connection with the homeland remains strong. We not only ... We also have the right to vote from abroad, and in 2006 we were able to cast ballots in the presidential election. Voting from ...

The already-tense relations between Mexico and the United States could get a lot trickier depending on how the upcoming Mexican presidential election unfolds. The frontrunner for the presidency is Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a left-leaning politician who has repeatedly railed against President Donald ...