Fraud in Mexico?

The question polarises. Those who voted for Andrés Manuel López Obrador on 2 July 2006 tend to answer with an irritable yes; those in favour of Felipe Calderón answer with an angry no. Today, the only uncontested fact is that merely to raise it is to open an extremely difficult cycle in Mexico's still-young democracy. How did we arrive at this dark alley of uncertainty?

A deeply rooted idea in Mexico is that all competitive elections involve some sort of fraud. Any moderately informed Mexican knows about the thousand-and-one hoaxes committed during the near-legendary presidential election of 1988. The abuses of this and many other polls would be enough to fill an encyclopaedia. The struggle for free and trustworthy elections was not completed until the 1990s, when a vigorous civil movement achieved the creation of an autonomous Federal Electoral Institute (IFE).

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