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Weekly Report - 27 January 2011 (WR-11-04)
MEXICO: PAN sides with PRD in Guerrero
The traditionally violent southern state of Guerrero goes to the
polls to elect a new governor on 30 January. The last week of the campaign
proved dramatic: first the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) candidate, Marcos Efrén
Parra, withdrew and endorsed the Guerrero Nos Une candidate, Angel Heladio
Aguirre. Then, on 27 January, a leak to a Mexico City newspaper,
Reforma, claimed that a protected witness, known as “Mateo", had
personally handed over US$5m (of a promised US$15m) from a drug-trafficker to
Manuel Añorve Baños, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) candidate
for the governorship of Guerrero.
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