Opposition gears up for PRI ouster in Mexico 2000 race
Mexico’s conservative National Action Party and center-left Democratic Revolution Party move toward a formal alliance to defeat the ruling PRI, despite deep ideological rifts. Polls and leaders suggest a Fox Cardenas ticket could topple a 70-year PRI rule, with debates over privatization, church ties, abortion, and bank bailout policies shaping negotiations.
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Mexico City Ends Traffic Bribes with 32 Two-Woman Ticket Teams
Mexico City's police chief bars ticket books from 900 traffic officers and assigns 32 two-woman squads to issue fines. With male officers sidelined, critics say the plan harms enforcement while officials tout it as curbing corruption. Traffic violations have dropped, but fear and frustration grow among officers and residents.
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Ruben Solis Fuentes
Paseo de la Reforma
Campos
Laura Campos Soto
Zona Rosa
Taiwan orders 13 Boeing 747 cargo planes for China Airlines
Boeing signed a 2.5 billion deal to supply China Airlines with 13 747-400 cargo jets plus options for four more and two passenger models. The agreement follows a loss to Airbus on a separate 777 deal, and critics in Washington state linked Taiwan policy to the outcome.
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Gas pipeline deal fizzles in Africa project over leadership pull
Chevron and five partners including Shell reportedly failed to sign a joint venture after Nigeria demanded project leadership. Chevron said a political pact with Nigeria Ghana Benin and Togo granted rights to develop the line, which would start supplying 120 million cu ft daily in three years at an estimated $400 million, with initial customers in Ghana.
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U N names Carla Del Ponte to lead Yugoslavia Rwanda tribunals
The United Nations Security Council unanimously appointed Swiss prosecutor Carla Del Ponte to head the ICTY and IRITR tribunals, replacing Louise Arbour. Del Ponte, 52, starts Sept. 15 and has led high profile probes into money laundering and Russian corruption. In Cambodia, Foreign Minister Hor Nam Hong rejected a U.N. plan for war crimes trials and parliament delayed genocide trials up to three years.
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