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As angry voters reject major parties, Mexico's 2018 presidential race grows chaotic

  • Written by Salvador Vázquez del Mercado, Conacyt Research Professor, National Laboratory of Public Policy, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas

Mexico’s 2018 campaign season has not officially begun, but the race for the presidency is already a nail-biter, featuring a powerful ruling party, dozens of independent aspirants – including two women – and very strange bedfellows.

In my two decades analyzing Mexican elections as both an academic and a pollster, I have never...

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