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Weekly Report - 17 October 2006
MEXICO: López Obrador crushed in Tabasco
As the opinion polls predicted, César Raúl Ojeda Zubieta, Andrés Manuel López Obrador's candidate for governor of Tabasco, lost by about 10 percentage points to the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) candidate Andrés Granier in the election on 15 October.
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