Entries for July 10, 2006

Here's a link to my U.S. News column on the Mexican election, in which I try to put it in a Latin American and in a North American perspective. Bottom line: Not all of Latin America is turning left, and all three countries covered by the North American Free Trade Agreement now have and will have for at least the next couple of years center-right governments. That last conclusion assumes that Stephen Harper's Conservative government in Canada, which currently does better in polls than it did when it won a plurality of parliamentary seats in the January election, will stay in office for some good period of time.