Adrian Jennings: William Rita is a talented, instinctive politician. But he also has a very, very troubling back story,. He was charged by the international criminal court with instigating ethnic violence that left 13 hundred people dead. That case was only dropped after prosecution witnesses either recanted or disappeared. The kenyon people have taken a massive gambol in this election," says Jennings.
The names are familiar but the establishment-choice and rabble-rouser roles are reversed. That the vote was along class lines rather than ethnicity marks an important shift. Will
the result stand? For years Mexico was seen merely as a conduit for illegal drugs; now it has a
growing user base as well. And the
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