ELECTIONS-MEXICO: Hostile Campaign Fuels Tensions

Mudslinging between the candidates in Mexico's presidential election campaign is polarising voters and further heating up a climate of tension stoked by conflicts between the government and trade unionists and rural workers, in which three people have lost their lives in the last three weeks.

POLITICS-MEXICO: Analysts, Online Bettors Put Money on Leftist Candidate

With four months to go to Mexico's elections, leftwing presidential frontrunner Andrés López Obrador is still ahead of his rivals by a comfortable margin, while analysts predict that he will win, and many online bettors are putting their money on him.

MEXICO: Poor Especially Vulnerable to Electoral Fraud

The poverty that affects nearly 40 percent of Mexico's 104 million people creates a breeding-ground for election crimes, such as deceptive threats of the suspension of social benefits.

MEXICO: EZLN Takes Aim at Leftist Candidate

"The Zapatistas have raised doubts in my mind, and now I don't know what to believe, or what to do," says Hanna Molina, a Mexican student originally planning to vote in July for Andrés López Obrador, whose triumph would make Mexico part of the wave of leftist and centre-left governments in Latin America.