1 Mexico Voters select a new President July I in a contest that will likely see the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)- which presided over decades of authoritarian rule until being unseated in 2000-regain power. The result could also herald the beginning of the end of Mexico's bloody drug war, which has claimed the lives of more than 50,000 people since 2006, when current President Felipe Calderon launched a military campaign against the powerful narcocartels. PRI front runner Enrique Pena Nieto, former governor of the huge state of Mexico (adjoining the capital, Mexico City), says reducing drug violence is his top priority. This has prompted U.S. fears that Pena Nieto may seek to accommodate the cartels rather than continue the crackdown.
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