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Mexico’s new president faces long grind on poverty

Posted on August 1, 2012  /  Comments Off

More than 12 million Mexicans have joined the ranks of the poor since 2005, leaving July 1 presidential election winner Enrique Pena Nieto facing a tough battle to live up to his election promises.

Pena Nieto has said he will bring jobs, education and clean water to wide swaths of the country where poverty is a stubborn reminder of successive governments’ failure to unlock Mexico’s full economic potential.

He has made firm commitments: the day his campaign began, he pledged to lift 15 million people out of poverty.

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Oh come all ye unfaithful: adultery site picks politician as poster boy

Posted on July 10, 2012  /  Comments Off

MEXICO: Mexican presidential front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto has become the unwitting poster boy for a website promoting adultery after he admitted cheating on his first wife.

A new Mexican billboard by ashleymadison.com, a site that helps married people arrange affairs, shows Pena Nieto with an index finger over his lips in a hushing gesture. Next to him are the words: “Unfaithful to his family. Faithful and committed to his country.”

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