Disputed election shaped NAFTA
Disputed election shaped NAFTA
Updated 7:53 p.m., Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas should have become president of Mexico in 1988, just as his father, Lázaro Cárdenas, was in the 1930s.
In what has been the biggest fiasco in Mexican electoral history, the election computer “crashed” the night of the July 1988 election in which Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, a leftist candidate, opposed Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
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When the election computer was “restored,” Salinas was declared the winner by a narrow margin.
Even the outgoing Mexican president that year, Miguel de la Madrid, acknowledged later in a book that 45 percent of the election boxes never were counted, Cárdenas said Tuesday during a two-day visit to San Antonio.
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