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Weekly Report - 07 April 2016 (WR-16-13)
MEXICO: PRI up to old tricks?
A Colombian ‘hacker’ has taken centre stage in the campaign for gubernatorial elections in 12 of Mexico’s states due in less than two months. In an incendiary article published by Bloomberg Businessweek on 31 March, entitled ‘How to hack an election’, Andrés Sepúlveda claimed that he had been hired to return the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) to power in Mexico in 2012 after 12 years in opposition, using a budget of US$600,000 to spy on, steal from, and smear political rivals. The article elicited a swift riposte from the Mexican presidential office, which is testament to the seriousness of the allegations, especially given President Enrique Peña Nieto’s avowed commitment to transparency and insistence that the PRI is not the unreconstructed and antediluvian anachronism portrayed by the opposition but a modern, reformed party prepared to stick to the rules of the game.
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