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No Two Ways About It, the Referendum Was a Disaster

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS No matter how you look at it, Mexico’s public referendum (consulta) on Sunday, Aug. 1, to determine whether to prosecute former presidents for their alleged misdeeds was a disaster. According to early reports from the National Electoral Institute (INE), which was in charge of organizing and supervising the 528-million-peso fiasco, between 7.07 and 7.74 percent of the

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