Wall Street Journal: It’s High Noon in Mexico
Felipe Calderón is scheduled to travel to the national legislative hall of San Lázaro in downtown Mexico City this morning, ascend the dais before Congress and take the presidential oath.
The current Mexican executive — Vicente Fox — will remove the tricolored presidential sash he is wearing and place it across the shoulder of the president-elect, ushering in a new six-year term for their country’s young and fragile democracy. President Calderón of the National Action Party (PAN) will then give his inauguration speech.
That’s how the script reads anyway. But it won’t happen if supporters of losing presidential candidate Andrés …
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