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10:45 am
Mon July 2, 2012

Mexico's New President Hails From Old Party

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Credit Monica Ortiz Uribe
Patricia Terrazas casts her ballot for the Mexican presidential election in Ciudad Juárez. She is both a Mexican citizen and a U.S. resident who lives and works in El Paso, Texas.
Credit Monica Ortiz Uribe
At a special polling station for out-of-town voters near the U.S.-Mexico border, people waited up to three hours to cast their ballot Sunday. Some voters at this station held dual citizenship in the United States and Mexico.
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Mexico's oldest political party is back in power.

On Sunday, voters delivered a robust victory to Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI. After a 12-year absence the party that ruled Mexico for seven decades will once again lead the country.

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