Elections 2006 | 21 July, 2006 [ 12:08 ]The New Face of Election Fraud in Latin America: Examples from Mexico and Peru
(by our political analyst and columnist
Maxwell A. Cameron)
Writing for The Guardian blog "Comment is free..." James Galbraith and Greg Palast have provided a great service by calling attention to the serious possibility of systematic fraud in the Mexican election. Neither offer definitive proof, but both provide information and analysis that, in conjunction with other deficiencies in the process, suggest this election may have been neither free nor fair. Yet I fear there is a danger that in searching for fraud of the sort that occurred in Mexico in 1988 we may miss the real story. The greatest obstacle to clean elections may arise not from systemic fraud but from the politicization of electoral processes.
The case of Peru is instructive.
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