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Historic opportunity for Mexico’s left
DAVID RABY looks at how the decisive electoral victory for Morena candidates will translate into policy
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ROGER McKENZIE highlights how health workers in DRC are struggling to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak in a region already suffering conflict, aid cuts and a legacy of imperialist degradation
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THE landslide victory of Claudia Sheinbaum and Morena (strictly speaking, the Let’s Keep Making History coalition) in the June 2 elections didn’t only leave the mainstream media lost for words, it also left the right-wing opposition in a state of shock.
Despite ritual (and absurd) claims of fraud from some hard-line opponents and formal moves to contest the result, several right-wing commentators have recognised that such actions are futile.
There is growing acceptance that Sheinbaum will be the new president and that Morena and its allies have virtually achieved the two-thirds majority in both houses of congress they need to pass constitutional amendments.
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