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Weekly Report - 19 April 2005
MEXICO: PRD's Cárdenas woos the business community
With Mexico City mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador not yet completely out of the race, his rival within the Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD), Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, is beginning to act as if he has already taken his place. One message Cárdenas's campaign managers have been trying hard to put across is that he is far more 'palatable' to the business community than López
Obrador.
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