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Tue, Jul 3, 2012 -- 9:00 AM

Mexico: Return of the PRI


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Enrique Pena Nieto smiles after learning the first official results of the presidential election in Mexico City on July 1, 2012.
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Enrique Pena Nieto smiles after learning the first official results of the presidential election in Mexico City on July 1, 2012.

Mexico's likely president-elect Enrique Pena Nieto has promised there will be no return to the past with his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which until 2000 had governed Mexico for 71 years. What do you think will be the new president's biggest challenges?

Host: Michael Krasny

Guests:

  • Alfredo Corchado, Mexico bureau chief for The Dallas Morning News
  • Beatriz Magaloni, associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University
  • David R. Ayon, U.S. director of the bi-national Focus Mexico/Enfoque Mexico project at the Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University, senior adviser to the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations
  • Marcela Davison-Aviles, president and CEO of the Mexican Heritage Corporation and executive producer of the San Jose Mexican Heritage Festival

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