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MEXICO CITY, Mexico -- Mexico's old rulers claimed victory in a presidential election on Sunday, ending 12 years in opposition after a campaign dominated by a sputtering economy and rampant drug violence.
After pledging to restore order and ramp up economic growth, Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) had a clear lead over his rivals in exit polls and a "quick count" conducted by electoral authorities.
Although his main rival said it was too early to concede defeat, the 45-year-old Pena Nieto delivered a late-night victory speech to cheering supporters, and a senior electoral official said the PRI candidate's lead was "irreversible."
"Mexicans have given our party another chance. We are going to honor it with results," a visibly moved Pena Nieto told followers packed inside the PRI headquarters in Mexico City.
Tomas Bravo / Reuters
Enrique Pena Nieto claps alongside his wife Angelica Rivera after exit polls showed him in first place in Mexico City on Sunday.
Dramatic comeback
Jubilant supporters waved banners sporting caricatures of their candidate and his trademark quiff, and confetti in the red, green and white of the Mexican flag -- and the PRI's colors -- rained down inside the hall.
Outgoing President Felipe Calderon congratulated Pena Nieto on his triumph, which completed a dramatic comeback for the PRI.
With returns in from more two-thirds of polling booths, Pena Nieto had 37 percent of the vote, more than four percentage points clear of leftist rival Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. His lead was slowly widening as the night drew on.
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Outgoing President Felipe Calderon congratulated Pena Nieto on his triumph, which completed a dramatic comeback for the PRI.
With returns in from more two-thirds of polling booths, Pena Nieto had 37 percent of the vote, more than four percentage points clear of leftist rival Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Ronaldo Schemidt / AFP - Getty Images
Leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador did not concede defeat on Sunday.
Only about 700 gathered at Lopez Obrador's campaign rally, he said he would wait for the official results before conceding defeat and canceled plans to proceed to the Zocalo, the main square he filled as recently as Wednesday.
"We have information that indicates something different from what they're saying officially," he said. "We're not going to act in an irresponsible manner." (Link to statement in Spanish-language newspaper El Universal)
Lopez Obrador could choose to challenge the election, as he did six years ago when he narrowly lost to Calderon and launched months of protests against alleged fraud. After his 2006 loss, his supporters closed down Mexico City's main boulevard for a month and a half to try to force a recall. When that failed, he declared himself the country's president before thousands of supporters massed in the Zocalo, the capital's central plaza.
Initial projections by Milenio television suggested the PRI had not won enough votes for an absolute majority in either the Senate or the lower house of Congress.
And Pena Nieto's advantage was much less convincing than the PRI had hoped for, with most polls in the immediate run-up to the election showing he would win by 10 to 15 percentage points.
Josefina Vazquez Mota of the ruling National Action Party, or PAN, trailed with less than 26 percent of the vote in Sunday's election. It was a humiliating defeat for conservative Calderon's party, worn out after a dozen years in power.
Inspiring high hopes when it was elected in 2000, the party has failed to ignite stronger economic growth and Calderon has had no answer to the rampant violence of Mexico's drug war.
Johan Ordonez / AFP - Getty Images
Josefina Vazquez Mota, from the right-wing PAN, accepted her defeat on Sunday.
"Nothing has improved since the PAN got in," said Mexico City plumber Raimundo Salazar, 44. "The PRI understands how things work here. And it knows how to manage the drug gangs."
Pena Nieto's plans include raising tax revenues, a business-friendly overhaul of labor laws and steps to open the struggling state-owned oil giant Pemex to more private investment.
Coercion, corruption
The planned reforms were also pushed by the PAN under Calderon, only to be stalled by the PRI in Congress. Indeed, with its close ties to the oil workers' union, the PRI could prove a bigger obstacle to revamping Pemex than the PAN.
The PRI for 71 years ruled as a single party known for coercion and corruption, but also for building Mexico's institutions and social services. It was often accused of stealing elections, most infamously the 1988 presidential vote. But PRI governments were also known for keeping a lid on organized crime, whose battles with government and each other under Calderon have taken more than 50,000 lives and the traumatized the country.
Mexico's drug war: No sign of 'light at the end of the tunnel'
Repeating a popular belief of many Pena Nieto supporters, Martha Trejo, 37, of Tampico said, "He'll stabilize the cartels. He'll negotiate so they don't hurt innocents."
Travelers run for cover as federal officers are killed by cops suspected of drug trafficking. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports.
In his victory speech, Pena Nieto vowed that he wouldn't make pacts with organized crime. However, he said he would focus on curbing violence.
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He built his reputation as governor of the State of Mexico in 2005-2011, where he oversaw solid economic growth and brought down the state government's debt.
"He did a really good job ... building lots of hospitals, roads and schools," said Lino Posadas, 30, a parking attendant from the town of San Jose del Rincon in the state.
But to many critics, though, Pena Nieto is a product created by Mexico's main television companies to serve as a proxy for the country's biggest businesses and the ruling elites in the PRI.
"He's been imposed on us by powerful interests like the TV stations and old presidents," said Javier Aguilar, a 62-year-old biochemist. "How can it be that a country this miserable is home to the world's richest man?" he said, referring to tycoon Carlos Slim.
Msnbc.com staff, Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Mexicos best days are behind it. Pena Nieto will go the way of Salinas...to bad. peace
Best of luck to the new President of Mexico, Pena Nieto. I hope he is more successful at gang and violence control than his predecessors. Maybe he and OUR new president, Romney, can work together to protect the border. If Romney does not get elected, I'm afraid the new Mexican president will be on his own, with no help from the U.S. president.
There have been 55,000 people killed in Mexico since 2006. Mexico is a shadow of it's former self. It is a land of savages. No one can change this.
@pissed: You're probably right, there is an inexorable tide flowing in that direction on both counts. They will run it the way they run the territory they have now....
Mark Taft ... you wrote "There have been 55,000 people killed in Mexico since 2006" ... There have been 55,000 people killed in Mexico since 2006. Mexico is a shadow of it's former self. It is a land of savages. No one can change this.
For your info "In the US, there are roughly 17,000 murders a year, of which about 15,000 are committed with firearms. Let me see ... 5.5 X 17,000 = 93,000 people killed in the U.S. since 2006!!!!
Who are the savages ...........
tough days ahead good luck --http://www.borderlandbeat.com/
Mexicans are a lot like Americans:
They keep voting for the same ol' crap, regardless of how bad they mess up their country.
The PRI is just as corrupt as the rest of the other parties, but they always seemed to have had things under control. For example, they allowed cartels to operate, but never let them get out of hand. It will be interesting to see how they operate upon returning to power
@newscover How many of those U.S.A murders where be-headings and dismemberment's ? a dozen this week alone ----that they know of mark is right
hillbilly-genius ... and how many of the 93,000 U.S. murders were drug related!!!!!
And ... when you're dead you're dead!!!!!!! AND ... please don't compare the average Mexican with the drug lords ... and call them all savages ..............
The Population in Mexico was reported at 107.55 million the u.s.a. is 313,862,369 so you are comparing apples to apples
watch video and you tell me they are not savages ?http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2011/03/narco-execution-videos-and-its-effects.html
hillbilly-genius ... never mind ..........
BEWARE: AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS TO TEXAS!
Generalissimo Santa Ana has returned and will take the Alamo and kill all the gringos defending it.
Destiny1945
Let them take back Texas if that means we'll never have to worry about a Bush or a Perry ever making it to office again.
I guess that's why O-bommy is afraid of them! I like when they wrap a big towel around a guys head whose hands are tied, pour gas on it, then light him up and watch him run around the yard in flames.
It's called a Mexican Matchstick.
i guess most of the illegals ...will want to go back home now...they need to...go back and take their own country over...not mine...
I read novel that said Mexican Presidents are so crooked, you can not buy them, you can only rent them.
Unfortunately this is not a novel... It is for real.
With Peña Nieto Mexico will go back at least 50 years, Lopez Obrador will paralyze the country for months as he did last election, the PAN will return to their traditional NO position... and the people will remain as screwed as they have always been.
Well when the USA gets a President that isn't chicken-sh_t when it comes to not only border security but exporting violence anywhere in Mexico if that's what it takes to take out drug lords OR the people they pay, then MAYBE the people of Mexico AND the USA border states will have a chance to live without fear. If something isn't done soon, the people will do the job on both sides of the border!
THe U.S> has an excellent President. DO you want a king?
DC,
I'll buy that except for Caldron. I'm afraid that Mexico will go back to being cartel controlled.
But I'm sure all the "for peace ya-whos" won't agree. They seems to think that backing down from a bully is going to make that bully think "Gee, these people really mean business". Get serious! Ain't gonna happen because those kinds of people (gangs, cartels or whatever you want to call them) don't operate on that high a level of civilization.
Sure the killings will go down now that the cartels know they can operate as freely as they did before Caldron. Does the saying "doing the same thing the same way and expecting different results" ring any of your bells? Mexico was rotten under the "old rulers" back then any they are going to decay again.
Is it me or do those 2 look like Donny & Marie :)
Ronald Hussein Reagan,
Thanks for the laugh. The President you think is so great is sure acting like a king himself. He's a liar, a fool and has no concern for the people he claims to want to help. He's a politician, just like all the others...so please spare us your delusions.
As for Mexico, well their problems will not go away anytime soon. Their drug cartels are too powerful, their government is terminally corrupt and their military and law enforcement are ineffectual and corrupt as well.
Unfortunately, there are no easy answers or fixes to such massive problems.
The numbers beside their names is how many pesos they charge.
That's what happens when a few suck up all the money - see current situation in USA. No surprise.
The drug cartels represent and provide a convenient "enemy" for Mexico's politicians,a way of distracting people from their corrupt plans. The USA is exactly the same. They have been funneling trillions of dollars to date to the so called "war on drugs" - for the past 40 decades - money that could have been used to improves our schools, etc... Instead, it all goes in the pockets of shadow corporations who in turn, hire the services of other corporate donors who help the very politicians who give them no-bid contracts.
Must be nice to become rich without having to work.
Crime and murder rates have dropped by half since the late 70's-early 90's because of the War on Drugs. Let's face it, Druggie scum account for most crime in America.
Chesty youu mistake consecutive events for events with a causal relationship. THe reason for the drop in crime is because of the advent of hybrid vehicles.
Well,wonderful.....a new puppet for the Cartels to manipulate...
This is great news for the drug cartels. They can now go back to their old ways of"investing" in government officials. The funny thing is that all his initiatives are ones that his party blocked over the past decade. Reminds me of something -- oh yeah, the GOP.
Sorry, but it's the GOP who continues to block any and all efforts to fix the economy they broke in the first place. Don't forget that the GOP squandered the largest budget surplus in history. Then they left the mess for the dems to fix, and continue to block virtually all attempts to fix it. All the while, of course, they blame it on the dems. It would be funny if it weren't so sad. The only good news is that, if you're wealthy and connected, you stand the profit mightily if the GOP gets in. If not, you're screwed, because they only feather their own nests.
Valid, yep, that's how the US economy gets back on track---just pass some more bills in Congress. Worked so well in 2009, maybe we should try some more.
Hey valid,
GOP walks out? Look at Wisconsin and the US Congress walking out hand in hand. Also, ever notice that your "president" states "I will veto that bill and I haven't ever read it" or cries that "they won't work with me"? Ever see him all smiles until someone disagrees with his version of good legislation? He can't even contain his child-like feelings from showing on his face as a scowl. Ya keep up the stupid bubble of denial.
Block all his initiatives? If crap legislation is crap legislation, then it should be vetoed. Unfortunately his "initiative" on healthcare has now been added to the American TAX BURDEN. but I'm sure you don't see it that way.
Looks like he went to the University of Wall Street and graduated with honors. I'm sure the hedge fund operators with Mexico investments are dancing in the streets right now.
Same old OWS BS. The topic is Mexico's new President NOT the organization that has made millions of SMART Americans secure in their investments.
JP -
You are from Mars. Forget 2000 and 2008?
I made some real jack shorting the Peso recently.
i would like to know where they get these "journalists" did anyone notice they had to use this line word for word in the story twice?
Jubilant supporters waved banners sporting caricatures of their candidate and his trademark quiff, and confetti in the red, green and white of the Mexican flag -- and the PRI's colors -- rained down inside the hall
guess they needed to fill some dead space.
I'd say MSNBC was getting a high school journalism class to do their work but it would be an insult to the high school students. I don't think I've ever read an article produced the MSNBC Staff Writers that did not have multiple errors. They used the same two paragraphs twice as well. It's almost as if they are simply posting their notes.
Telemundo strikes again!
He seems the healthiest of all, plus such a beautiful wife. Then if the story is written right, we have a great hero for us all. All we have to left to see, is him kneeling to God in his church we want to see.
Nice cynical, keeen-eyed post. YOu seeem to have touched on the most important points.
El Re - Are you one of the 20 million illegal aliens that have decided to grace the USA that is rife with rich people "sucking up all the money" as you put it with YOUR presence. People like you don't have a frggin clue. What do you think made the USA the richest, most powerfull county on the face of the earth, and why do you think millions are trying to come here from foreign lands as corrupt as Mexico. I do agree with you on the wasted money on the "war on drugs". We just should have used that money to vaporize Mexico and execute every drug dealer in the USA. I also don't know ANYONE that has become which by not having to work OR by making stupid assed statements on blogs.
umm jp i believe bush and cheney got rich without working!
JP
Stop the hysteria and get your facts straight. There are 10 million illegals in the U.S. and only 5 million are from Mexico- that's 1.5% of our population and that number is shrinking as the border has tightened over the last 3 years and jobs here are more scarce. And 95% of illegal Mexican are hard working law-abiding folks who were invited in by business interests to keep wages low and to bust unions. And, a sizable % of that number came here as young children and are fully assimilated into American society and have a good work ethic and are a plus for our society and economy. If you want to get hysterical about immigration, get worked up about Muslims coming here....they will never assimilate into our society and their values are opposite our Bill of Rights and Civil Rights laws.
@JP
Vaporize Mexico??? Another person who apparently has all the right answers, thinks it's a good idea to completely annihilate another country/population of people using WMD's (how else do we vaporize a country?)...I'm going to guess you're conservative and consider yourself a christian, and also guess that your way to "deal" with the Middle East is to "turn them into a glass parking lot," using, you guessed it, WMD's...Some Christian...I hope those in power in countries possessing nuclear weapons, biological weapons, or whatever else doesn't think the way you do.
eric1964 - let's take 1 person at a time. Will you do a Wiki search for a brief Bush Jr. bio, consider all he has done in his life, then come back with your justification of how Bush gained wealth by "not working"?
The man was born to parents who were very hard workers, and were able to afford the better things in life. So yes, Jr. was born into a family of means. But to say he obtained his current position by "not working" is an incorrect supposition, made to put a negative spin where it doesn't belong.
Jr. has "worked" his whole life, and gotten ahead because of it. Check out that bio and come back with the evidence of his failure to "work".
One last thing... The term "work" is purely subjective. Many years ago, I worked with an Amish construction crew who believed "work" was only achieved if your fingers were knotted up with arthritis, and callouses covered the hand. I knew a farmer who believed a man only "worked" if he sat behind the wheel of a John Deere tractor. I have been employed by others who believe "work" is only accomplished by negotiating million dollar contracts. "Work" is a subjective term...
Well Mexico has become a narco-state.
It continues to amaze me how many people from the USA go there as tourists. It is a very dangerous place. The police are part of the problem not the solution, they are just as likely to kidnap someone as the drug dealers, and the most dangerous is getter caught in the cross fire of a gang war.
There are many safer places to visit if one wants nice beaches and warm weather.
I live here (by choice, I'm British) and scare mongering comments like that are not helping the situation.
Can you point me to one story of harm coming to an American tourist? Americans are not being killed and kidnapped. The violence is shocking, but if you are not a narco (or a family member of one, sadly) you're quite safe down here.
True, there is street crime, but show me a country free from that and I'll move there myself.
Stop sucking up the media's biased reports, and do a little research. Severed heads sell newspapers and get web clicks. Quaint towns and wonderfully friendly people do not.
Bill,
Have you ever even been to Mexico? Is trolling the internet and believing MSNBC all you do? Some places in Mexico are really safe,beautiful, and inexpensive to boot. Yes, there are really dangerous places in Mexico, but I don't see Americans going on beach vacations near the border towns of Texas. That's where the violence is. There are some minor robberies further south, but the tourists are not ending up with their heads on pikes. You should know what you are talking about not just read it on these stupid news articles. Most of the people getting killed are the people involved in drugs and their families and people living in the worst cities on the border.
Unfortunately, guys, I have to disagree with you. My wife (here LEGALLY I might add) is from Reynosa. I haven't seen her family since 2008 because THEY tell me it's not safe for me to visit. They DO look for Americans. Especially those in the military and law enforcement. They force them to train their minions and if they refuse...they are killed. But those stories are NOT going to be publicized by the liberal media here because they don't want us to have animosity toward the illegals they want to be here. And I know of several stories of American tourists targeted and killed. One that comes to mind is the guy from Colorado killed while jet skiing on Falcon Lake (border lake between Texas and Mexico).
Back in the early 90's I knew a Mexican who would vacation in Mexico City and all around Mexico, but he told me he would NEVER allow his family to walk around Mexico unescorted.
I asked him why?
He replied, "Because you don't know my people!"
JP-345944: You don't know of anyone in the US who became rich without having to work for it? Do you own a TV?
Sure..they are called....democrats
Right on Cracker......I couldn't agree with you more!
Same old conservative schtick. Blame the victims while touting their self-righteousness; citing the exception as the rule. The vast majority of those drawing on welfare assistance really do need it. But that struggle isn't seen from their reality bubbles. The land of opportunity, where it takes money to make money and employers country-wide are content with paying as little as the law possibly allows and offering no or substandard benefits.
yes, well, not unexpected,..
"elected" officials these days tend to be only front men for vested interests, sad but true,..when you need ten billion$ to get elected? Democracy takes a real beating every time,..Not that I have the solution, I dont,, but it would be nice to see these "parties" after the election, getting more;working,poorer,simpler, people in their Cabinets etc so balance is maintained?..it is "public service" after all, no??..not "me and my rich pals" service,..anyways,, sometimes change is good, I read somewhere? that it takes ten years for any! GOV to become corrupt to the point of no returns,,,seems to be true too,..Guys got a tough job in hand regardless,.. we will see, no?..Sr Calderon has done his best, I could not have done as good, never mind better,.. I dare say he can use a break,..Good luck to the "new" guy,.. he will need it,..and do watch for that "slippery slope" on corruption pal... once it starts? it is very hard to stop,, if not impossible,, best it never gets started wethinks?.."look after your! people, and they! will look after you".. its not rocket science,, though at times we do wonder??..
Elected officials have always been and will always be the front men of someone else, or have an agenda. If you put someone in office at a high level that doesn't know what they are up against they are going to get ran over by those that do. And if they don't get ran over in the country they are in then they will internationally. There are many examples of this. No reasonable person who you would really want in office will run, because they know the risks and what it does to your family.
Pffffft! Whatever, like anything will change for them. If anything, more will want to escape across the easy-to-cross border into the US, drop a baby or two, and not have to worry about deportation while taxpayers are forced to pay for their welfare
20 million cowards and leeches who run away from their country, instead of fighting for it. Can such people make good citizens here ?
Mexico's corrupt Government, has denied it's people a decent way of life for centuries. It is not a poor country.
can you remind me again why the Pilgrims migrated here? oh yeah, that's right, they decided to run away from persecution and decided not to fight it...
That's what you read in textbooks...The Plymouth and Virginia COMPANIES came here for unregulated, little-taxed, economic opportunities that would offer the people, especially those in high places (those leading the voyages) opportunities to make a lot of money and gain statuses that wouldn't have been available at the time in England. No different than the crusades, manifest destiny, or the exploration of the America's in the 15th-16th centuries. Not about discovery, religion, or fulfilling a nation's destiny, just about economic opportunies ($$$) for those who couldn't find it where they were currently living...
They came to the US for economic opportunities?
It seems for a well organized "company" sponsored expedition, they were remarkably ill prepared.
All evidence suggests to me that they were a rag tag bunch that were lucky to survive.
Oh, and stymie222, it's more like 5 million Mexicans (the rest being from other SA countries), and most are not running in fear, but looking for better opportunities.
And even if they are, so what? Doesn't America welcome those kinds of people with open arms? I'll bet if the tables were turned and your relatives were beheaded in front of you and you had no authorities to turn to you'd high-tail it south of the border for safety too.
And tell me, how has a Mexican spoiled your day? Emptied your trash too slowly, under-cooked your burger, mowed your lawn poorly?
Like it or not, Immigrants (legal or otherwise) fulfill an important role in American life and its economy. Americans will not do their work for any money, so if they were not there, the prices of basic services and commodities would skyrocket or maybe even become unavailable.
Live and let live.
That's the population of Mexico City itself... And I do agree with you that Mexico isn't a poor country... Glad someone else agrees and doesn't think its poor...
So, Craneguy is a Briton, living in another country trying to tell us how we should behave??? I wonder are you where you are legally? I can't tell from a previous post if you are living in the US or Mexico. You might be in the US illegally but I bet you are not in Mexico illegally. I know for fact they treat illegals a lot differently than the US does.
It cost my wife and I over $8000 in legal fees and red tape to get her a green card. She has a job and pays taxes and for health insurance just like any other American. She can't stand it when she hears about the free rides her illegal "countrymen" receive in this country. I don't understand why anyone who is here from Mexico legally would be ok with their countrymen receiving for free what they worked so hard for. Kinda seems like a waist of $8000 to me.
It was a beautiful country back then. No Mexicans.
Well I just hope that they will welcome with open arms their people back from us and they can feed their own people instead of us feeding and health care etc. Ya'll can go home now U have a new government
They look like Donny & Marie Osmond.
So the monkey cage that runs the zoo will change monkeys. And let's not forget that all the Mexicans here want to change the U.S. into another Mexico.....
They want, of course, to remain anonymous (does any infiltrator ever where the uniform of his country while he's behind enemy lines?) - no "profiling." The difference here is that the nation's president is on their side: in their own country, their president is on HIS side.
"One flew east and one flew west, and one flew over the cuckoo's nest."
The most corrupted party ever! Obstructing progress, stealing funds, putting people into a poverty that will last for decades, bringing violence to those who try to express discomfort and uncover the truth of horrible facts. As Vargas Llosa said: The perfect dictatorship
GYPSY Yeah they are called swindlers GW Bush and Cheney
I'm sure obama is flying to Mexico to bow his head and apologize for Arizona's law, reassure him they still can smuggle drugs through and promise amnesty to these fine Mexican nationals
ok mr. new mexican president,now clean up your sorry ass country and stay away from ours.............
They will negotiate with the cartels, right...how exactly will that take place? Give us what we want, or we will put your f'n head in a box and place it on your family's doorstep. That's how the cartels negotiate. That's basically saying to the U.S. that if you thought the problem was bad before with the cartels, just wait, because now we aren't going to waste our money or soldiers to protect your country...
This party simply takes pay offs from the cartels and appeases them. At least Calderon was fighting them and trying to do the right thing.
This is all falling into place. The capitalism of old is gone...both USA and Mexico are going to be the new middle-east energy exporters to the new industrialists (China et al). ALL the pipelines (Keystone) will get built to supply the Texas refineries...Canadian/US oil will flow to refineries and waiting ships (which are now going to banned by law from entering other US ports (East/West coasts?). Mexico will privatize it's oil including vast natural gas reserves recently acquired by them. Now your kids will have to find a niche in this Brave New World...think out of the box and you'll be OK. Hint: education and student debt isn't a solution in this new economy and public sector will shrink in a major way so that's not a place to run either (that's eye-ther for non-libs who don't know the new pronounciation of this newly highjacked word:)
Here's a hint yakman. Keep your day job, if you have one, because I think your days of being a fortune teller will be short lived.
He is in bed with the cartels, back to greater corruption, but will it slow the killings...most likely since he will not bre trying to shut the cartels down. they will agree to a 15% cut in exports and Obama will praise him as a hero..business PRI style as usual.