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An U.S. intern working at the Associated Press news agency in Mexico City has been found dead in an apartment building near where he was living in the Condesa neighborhood.
At least 750,000 ordinary Mexican citizens served as polling station officers in Sunday’s federal and state elections.
Aside from the presidential race, Sunday’s elections will also determine who governs for the next six years in six states and the Federal District (DF) of Mexico City.
Enrique Peña Nieto, a 45-year-old former state governor, looks set to win last Sunday’s presidential election with around 38 percent of the vote, returning the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to power after 12 years in opposition.
Citizens are getting a three-day respite from the incessant campaigning in the run up to Sunday’s presidential elections.
Early election returns and the results of an official "quick count" by electoral authorities indicate that the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is set to take back the Mexican presidency, as well as the Jalisco statehouse.
The identity of Mexico’s next president will be revealed on Sunday around 11.45 p.m., the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) has promised.
Unless the vote is close, at around 11:45 p.m. on Sunday evening we should know who will be the new president of Mexico.
Within 24 hours of parading the captured “son” of elusive drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman before the media last week, the Mexican government was forced to admit to an embarrassing case of mistaken identity.
