Mexico & Nafta - December 2007 (ISSN 1741-444X)

President Felipe Calderón's private secretary, César Nava, said on 24 November that the government is rethinking its relations with Elba Esther Gordillo, the hugely influential leader of the teachers' union and leader of the Partido Nueva Alianza. The statement, by one of Calderón's chief advisers, has huge implications. Gordillo sees herself as one of the country's power brokers: she claimed that she tilted the 2006 election Calderón's way. This year, however, her importance in elections has been less meaningful.

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