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...“As we get closer to election day the people of Extremadura want to hear about concrete things,” said María José Calderón, parliamentary candidate for Ciudadanos in Mérida....
...In Mexico, the Pope was met by President Calderón, whose National Action party was founded by conservative Catholics in 1939....
...In Nicaragua, experts point to last November’s local elections as a particularly egregious example of political interference and dubious electoral practice by the leftwing government of Daniel Ortega, the...
...“Amlo is risking the future of the left in Mexico,” Mr Ortega says....
...In the few days since the conservative administration of Felipe Calderón presented Congress with a bill to allow greater private-sector participation in the country’s nationalised oil industry, women have...
...The chuchos, Mr Ortega’s faction, might attract some of the moderate leftwing vote but never enough to become a serious political force compared with the National Action Party (PAN) of President Felipe Calderón...
...Its own significance aside, the bill offers a significant boost for the government of President Felipe Calderón....
...Much to the delight of centre-right President Felipe Calderón, he will almost certainly choose the first option....
...In Nicaragua, even the former Sandinista leader and current leftwing president, Daniel Ortega, last year supported a law that tightened the regulations on abortion....
...and continue his civil resistance campaign to make life impossible for Mr Calderon....
...There is little doubt that Mr Calderón’s move is clever....
...Ortega’s advance By any standards, the latest twist in Nicaragua’s election drama should have rendered the US speechless: in spite of Washington’s concerted efforts to kill off Daniel Ortega and his leftwing...
...US “advice” recommending Nicaraguans vote against Mr Ortega proved counter-productive....
...The US is convinced that an Ortega presidency would be a disaster. Aside from Mr Ortega’s alliance with Mr Chávez, US officials believe the Nicaraguan leftist has scant regard for democratic process....
...The rise of radicals such as Bolivia’s Evo Morales, the continent’s first indigenous president, or the re-emergence of Daniel Ortega, the 1970s Nicaraguan guerrilla leader, may be eye-catching....
...If Correa triumphs, it will be seen as an important regional victory win for Chávez, who, after Daniel Ortega’s poll win in Nicaragua this month, will have expanded his anti-American alliance this month...
...July Andrés Manuel López Obrador heads Mexico polls against centre-right Felipe Calderón and the PRI’s Roberto Madrazo....
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