EL BOTHE, Mexico --Maria de la Luz Garcia says she'll vote in Mexico's July 2 election, but she won't settle on which candidate to choose until she checks the box on her ballot.
"I don't know any of them," says the indigenous Otomi woman of the three major candidates seeking to take their place in power after President Vicente Fox steps aside. He is constitutionally barred from running again after serving six years in office.
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Ms. Braine provides a great report on the female perspective to Mexico's upcoming election. It is sourced well and gives a perspective on this important event in Mexican politics. Though it is getting little attention on this side of the border (USA,) this election is important because of NAFTA and because of our own immigration debate. Having friends in Taxco myself, who are part of a women's collective, I know that the assertion about the men having come across the border, leaving women to run the farms and towns is spot-on.
