{"id":30417,"date":"2012-07-02T09:33:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T16:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=30417"},"modified":"2012-07-02T09:33:40","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T16:33:40","slug":"mexico-elections-signal-return-to-authoritarian-corrupt-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/07\/02\/mexico-elections-signal-return-to-authoritarian-corrupt-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico Elections Signal Return to Authoritarian, Corrupt Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-070212\/2012_07_02_carlsen.MP3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-070212\/2012_07_02_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/mexico_elections3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>A preliminary vote count in Mexico shows that Presidential candidate Enrique Pena Nieto is the winner, capturing 38% of the vote in yesterday&#8217;s elections. Nieto celebrated last night at the headquarters of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, in Mexico City, declaring victory and telling voters, &#8220;You have given our party a second chance and we will deliver results.&#8221; The PRI held Mexico&#8217;s Presidency and dominated politics for 71 years, ending in 2000 after years of accusations that the party was corrupt, authoritarian, and undemocratic. The left-of-center candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has been found to have captured 31% of the vote. However, Lopez-Obrador has declined to concede the race until all votes are counted. The incumbent National Action Party&#8217;s Vazquez Mota won 25% of the vote and has conceded defeat. The PAN has held Mexico&#8217;s presidency for the past 12 years. <\/p>\n<p>Enrique Pena Nieto had led the polls for weeks leading up to yesterday&#8217;s elections. However, many analysts commented that the polls did not effectively capture non-traditional voters. In fact Nieto won a smaller percentage of the vote than polls predicted. Also leading up to the elections were documented cases of media bias, and widespread instances of vote-buying. Lopez Obrador, who lost a 2006 Presidential bid by less than 1%, had stationed supporters at every single polling place to observe the voting. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Laura Carlsen, Director of the Mexico City-based Americas Program of the Center for International Policy and a columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus, Miguel, a student with the Yo Soy 132 movement, camping out in the front of the Revolution Monument in Mexico City<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A preliminary vote count in Mexico shows that Presidential candidate Enrique Pena Nieto is the winner, capturing 38% of the vote in yesterday&#8217;s elections. Nieto celebrated last night at the headquarters of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, in Mexico City, declaring victory and telling voters, &#8220;You have given our party a second chance and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}