Dirty Tactics: In Mexico, PAN Emerges as Natural Heir of PRI

FRESNO, Calif.--The radio announcer described, in a serious voice, the "catastrophe" that would ensue if Mexican presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who is seen as a leftist, won the July 2 elections. He called on listeners to vote for the National Action Party (PAN) candidate Felipe Calderón. The message was broadcast on the religious radio show "New Life," based in California.
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López Obrador, of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), is not exactly a communist. His government platform could even be considered centrist. So where does the "leftist" label come from that his political enemies attribute to him?

Two years ago, when Mexico's three major party candidates were announced, Mexico City Mayor López Obrador had a wide lead in the polls. He was the candidate to beat. And Mexican President Vicente Fox put his team to work. With the complicity of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which had governed the country from 1929 to 2000, President Fox tried to remove López Obrador from office by accusing him of an alleged abuse of power. With no evidence, however, the attempt was unsuccessful. But the president did not give up.

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