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[AlphaCentauri]

Mexico, Brasil, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia....

All latin american countries get the same pill.

Felipe Calderon - National Action Party (PAN)Mexico
He ran a negative campaign against his left-wing rival, linking him to Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez in TV ads, proclaiming: "Lopez Obrador is a danger to Mexico".

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SERGIO AGUAYO: Mexico has incorporated the worst of American politics, dirty politics. That's not the kind of contribution that one could respect.

http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2006/05/12/03

U.S. Political Consultants Dick Morris and Rob Allyn Are the Virtual Rapists of Atenco
May 16, 2006
A solid dose of negative campaigning has tightened up Mexico’s three-way presidential race, generating a spate of stories about the influence of controversial U.S. political strategist Dick Morris.

Reports in the Mexican press are raising questions about how connected Morris might be to the campaign of Felipe Calderon. The conservative Calderon is competing with leftist Andres Manual Lopez Obrador and populist Roberto Madrazo in a contest to lead a nation of 105 million people whose exodus of migrants, legal and illegal, are reshaping U.S. politics and society.

Last month, Calderon overtook Lopez Obrador for the first time in the polls when a survey done by the Reforma newspaper gave him a 38 to 35 percent edge over Lopez Obrador. Madrazo held 23 percent. Lopez Obrador has retained a slight lead in other recent polls compiled by opinamexico.org.

Calderon’s surge followed a saturation television advertising campaign aimed at eroding the positive image Lopez Obrador has forged as a popular mayor of Mexico City by linking him to Venezuela’s leftist president Hugo Chavez. In a story headlined “Mercenary Strategists Without Rival,” the newsweekly Proceso (in Spanish by subscription) reported this week that Calderon has contracted Morris and Texas-based political consultant Rob Allyn “to handle not only his image, but the development of his campaign.”

http://www.narconews.com/Issue41/article1817.html