Prensa extranjera calentó el ambiente
Omcim presenta una selección de comentarios en medios extranjeros respecto a las expectativas que ha suscitado esta jornada electoral. Los medios de EU (tanto impresos, como de televisión) presentaron estas elecciones como un referéndum para el presidente Calderón, específicamente para su política anti-narco. La atención de los medios europeos, en cambio, se concentró en las repercusiones que pudiera tener el voto nulo.
Jueves 2 de julio
Video: Mexico Governor’s Race Against Drugs
The Wall Street Journal
Viernes 3 de julio
Drug-Cartel Links Haunt an Election South of Border
COLIMA, Mexico — The candidacy of Mario Anguiano, running for governor in a state election here Sunday, says a lot about Mexican politics amid the rise of the drug cartels.
A brother of the candidate is serving a 10-year prison sentence in Mexico for peddling methamphetamine. Another Anguiano is serving 27 years in a Texas prison for running a huge meth ring. A few weeks ago, a hand-painted banner hung on a highway overpass cited the Zetas, the bloodthirsty executioners for the Gulf Cartel drug gang, praising the candidate: “The Zetas support you, and we are with you to the death.”
(The Wall Street Journal, by Joel Millman and José Córdoba)
Sábado 4 de julio
Mexico’s elections a test for Calderon’s drug war
By MARK STEVENSON (Associated Press Writer)
President Felipe Calderon and his drug war will get their biggest test of support yet when Mexico holds midterm elections Sunday amid growing frustration over rampant cartel violence and a shrinking economy.
(Mención a voto nulo)
Mexico election a test for Calderon’s drug war
Chicago Sun-Times Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:50 AM PDT
AP MEXICO CITY — President Felipe Calderon and his drug war will get their biggest test of support yet when Mexico holds midterm elections Sunday amid growing frustration over rampant cartel violence and a shrinking economy. Calderon’s National Action Party, or PAN, has been campaigning as the one party tough on crime and drug trafficking ahead of the elections for 500 congressional seats, 565 …
(Retoma la mención Omite mención a voto nulo)
Mexico elections a referendum on Calderon
Dallas Morning News Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:37 AM PDT
MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s midterm elections on Sunday will serve as a referendum on President Felipe Calderón‘s campaign against powerful drug cartels, analysts and observers say, as spasms of violence continue along the U.S. border and elsewhere.
Sunday’s Mexican elections are referendum on Calderon
CNN Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:21 PM PDT
Mexican President Felipe Calderon will wake up a lame duck Monday. How lame will depend largely on nationwide midterm elections Sunday.
El PRI se prepara para el retorno al poder en México
SALVADOR CAMARENA (El País)
El partido prevé una gran victoria en las legislativas del domingo
Para qué voto en blanco? ¡Véndalo!’
El Mundo
El complejo arte de votar en México
Alberto Nájar
BBC Mundo
En los comicios de este domingo en México se pone a prueba una reforma electoral aprobada hace menos de dos años, y que ha sido criticada por empresarios, académicos y organizaciones civiles que solicitaron sea modificada.
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