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Reshuffling the geopolitical order

Los Angeles Times

Granting emerging economic powers a greater role on the world stage too soon could weaken the international system that upholds democracy, human rights, nuclear nonproliferation and environmental protection.

Calderon's dead-end war

Los Angeles Times

JORGE G. CASTAÑEDA.- Mexican President Felipe Calderon's militarized, politicized fight against Mexico's drug cartels has been ineffective.

Mexico, up for grabs

CONTRARY TO recent expectations, Mexico has a competitive presidential election on its hands. With about two months to go before the July 2 vote, former front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the populist ex-mayor of Mexico City, has lost his lead in the polls and, most important, the aura of inevitability. Some polls show the National Action Party candidate, Felipe Calderon, 3 to 10 points in the lead.

Immigration's lost voices

THE COLLAPSE of the bipartisan immigration deal in the Senate last week sends a terrible message. As flawed as some considered the bill to be, it was certainly an improvement over the status quo for some very interested parties: the roughly 12 million unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. and the roughly 500,000 a year who will continue to go north for at least the next 10 years.

FIDEL CASTRO TURNS 80 today, and his era has come to an end. The biological denouement in Havana is not yet discernible — Is he dead? Will he recover? — but he has relinquished power, temporarily to his brother, Raul, but also permanently through the admission of his own mortality.

Dividends at the border

AFTER A three-year freeze, U.S.-Mexico relations are apparently improving again. Presidents Fox and Bush meet, probably for the last time as presidents, at a summit in Cancun today; the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee approved an immigration reform bill that looks a lot like the whole enchilada, and Mexico seems to be finally acknowledging that violence on its side of the border is a legitimate source of concern for inhabitants on the American side.

Felipe Calderon's daunting to-do list for Mexico

MEXICO'S SEEMINGLY endless electoral ordeal has finally concluded: Felipe Calderon took office as president on Friday, albeit under hardly auspicious circumstances. Constitutional order has prevailed — though just barely — despite the onslaught of a strident and deeply wounded left-wing opposition bent on impeding Calderon's inauguration and a bitter, resentful Institutional Revolution Party (PRI) silently hoping and conspiring for the new president's failure.

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