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Why We Should Care About the Mexican Election

08:54 H | Topics: Mexico

The answer has nothing to do with immigration (well maybe it does - just a little). According to an article posted at AlterNet, we in the United States could learn a few things from the upcoming Mexican presidential election scheduled to take place this coming Sunday. The three candidates to watch are Andres Manuel López Obrador aka AMLO of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), Felipe Calderón Hinosa, of outgoing Presidente Fox's National Action Party (PAN), and Robert Madrazo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

So according to AlterNet why should we watch the Mexican election?

10: The democratic revolution continues
9: In terms of running an election, Mexico puts us to shame
8: Campaigns receive public financing
7: The electoral institutions are squeaky clean
6: This is Mexico's first wired campaign
5: There will be no Swiftboating
4: It's a real choice -- no DemPublicans here
3: The shocking truth: There's more than one way to run an economy
2: Then there's immigration ...
1: An Obrador win will drive Bush and his right-wing cronies batty!

Critics aregue that all of the candidates are for "free-trade" and none are really progressive. Also if you read the Mexican press, you get a far different picture from the one presented by AlterNet.

Via / AlterNet
Image Via / Angus Reid

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