The World Policy Institute
at New School University

Presents

MEXICO'S PERILOUS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

a panel discussion with

JULIA PRESTON, a member of The New York Times team that won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for international affairs reporting in Mexico, and co-author of Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2004)

JORGE PINTO, former Mexican consul general, director of Pace University's Center for Global Finance, and columnist for El Universal

and

MAURICIO FONT, director of the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies at CUNY and author of several books and essays on Latin America

moderated by

STEPHANIE ELIZONDO GRIEST, Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute

On July 2, Mexico will hold one of the most critical presidential elections in its history. Will the country return to the PRI, the party that dominated the government for seven decades until Vincente Fox's surprise victory in 2000; or will it complete its transition to a true, multi-party democracy? Three men are furiously vying for the position and, according to polls, are separated by only a few percentage points. Which caudillo will lead Mexico into the future -- and in what direction? Would a win by populist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador be yet another sign that Latin America is turning Left? And where does Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos' "Other Campaign" fit into the picture? Panelists will discuss these and other related issues about modern Mexico.

Thursday, April 20, 2006, 6:00-7:30 p. m. Swayduck Auditorium, first floor, 65 Fifth Avenue (between East 13-14th sts.). Admission is $5.00.

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