Deja-vu all over again: the Mexican presidential campaign

stop me if any of this sounds familiar...

After six months in second place, Mr. [Felipe] Calderón has surged past the front-runner, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, with a stream of attack advertisements portraying him as a dangerous and violent leftist who will bankrupt the country.

Now, a month before the vote, the race is a contest between Mr. Calderón, a free-trade advocate backed by business leaders, and Mr. López Obrador, a leftist who draws most of his support from poor people who feel that free-trade policies have failed to help them.

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Mr. Calderón, 43, a former congressman and energy minister, has engineered the turnaround with a nimble, slick campaign, relying heavily on radio and television advertisements, many of them negative, tested in focus groups and tailored to specific constituencies, his aides say. Mexicans vote July 2.

gee, i have a number of questions...

• what are the key elements of mexico's campaign finance laws...?

• who are the major donors to calderón's campaign...?

• how much have those major donors contributed...?

• what are the business connections of those donors...?

• what percentage of mexico's total wealth do those donors represent...?

• what connections do those donors have to the united states...?

just asking...

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