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Felipe “Damastes” Calderon, the PAN, and the Constitutional Bed

by Pavel Uranga

Quito- Eleven years ago, since the extreme right took power in Mexico, there exists increasingly a “logic of power” which has little or nothing to do with the legal norms that have arisen since the Mexican Revolution of 1917.

During the decades of bad government by the ancien regime, the old PRI party, which held power for 70 years until 2000, took the luxury of never violating the law. If it was ever necessary to do so, instead of violating the law, they quickly changed it to conform to the will of the president in office.

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Welcome to the Pachamerica Project, a news digest of current events in Latin America, and dialogue between journalists in the south and their colleagues in the north.

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Uribe attacks Santos...

As we prepare for launch

With the most victory of a left-leaning candidate in Peru's recent presidential elections, Latin America continues to plot a new course that is more independent of the once hegemonic, Washington Consensus.