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<strong>Scripps Howard Foundation Wire</strong></p>

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<strong>New America Media</strong></p>
<p><strong>MEXICO CITY</strong> – Mexicans have long grown weary of their country’s prolonged War on Drugs. Now, with President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto set to take office in December, it appears change may finally be in the offing.</p>
<p>That change, however, may not be what most Mexicans were expecting.</p>

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<strong>Frontera NorteSur</strong></p>
<p>A little more than a week after Mexicans went to the polls, conflict and controversy swirl around the July 1 elections. Almost everywhere-in the halls of Congress, on the Sunday talk shows, in bars and cafes and on the streets-the results are the hot topic of conversation. And claiming fraud, a growing citizen’s movement is crossing borders and transforming the elections into an international issue.</p>

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<strong>New America Media</strong></p>
<p><strong>MERIDA, Mexico</strong> — In the wake of Mexico’s presidential election Sunday, analysts are expecting Mexico to launch a major “blitzkrieg surge” against the drug cartels during current president Felipe Calderon’s lame duck period.</p>
<p>President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto won’t take office until Dec. 1, leaving a five-month period during which Mexico is expected to intensify its drive against the drug cartels.</p>

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<strong>Frontera NorteSur</strong></p>
<p>Making a surprise appearance in a television time slot that was previously billed as an official first look at the day’s election results, Mexican presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party 8 (PRI) strode before the television cameras late in the evening of July 1 to give a victory speech even as the ballots were still being counted.</p>

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<strong>Frontera NorteSur</strong></p>