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...After a stint as mayor of Mexico City in 2000-05, in which López Obrador displayed a pragmatic streak, “I was expecting him to be more moderate, and he hasn’t been”, said Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, a totemic figure...
...Madero, campaigned to overturn the 35-year dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz — triggering the Mexican revolution — under the slogan “universal suffrage, no re-election”....
...Many countries, including the US, re-established full diplomatic ties with Honduras following the election in November 2009 of Porfirio Lobo as president....
...Mrs Clinton urged delegates to recognise the government of Porfirio Lobo, but several, including Ricardo Patiño, Ecuador’s foreign minister, question its legitimacy....
...Porfirio Lobo, of the conservative National party, emerged victorious late on Sunday in an election most Hondurans had hoped would be the first step in healing deep wounds inflicted on the Central American...
...That bucks the populist trend set by Hugo Chávez and his allies, who have changed constitutional law to keep themselves in power....
...For his part, Mr Zelaya, whose association with Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s leftwing president, isolated him from the Honduran elite, has told supporters to boycott the vote....
...Mr Zelaya had scared them by moving increasingly to the left and befriending Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s radical president....
..., there is a bizarre act, such as the speech he made hours later to Congress in which he dwelt on the fact that Santiago Creel, the interior minister, was descended from a minister in the government of Porfirio...
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