Mexico: The PRI's Complicated Comeback

The Institutional Revolutionary Party is making a comeback in Mexican politics just as the 2006 presidential election comes into view. The party's recent advances, however, only complicate the political picture in Mexico. The current leader in presidential polls is Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, leader of the leftist Democratic Revolutionary Party. Lopez Obrador's rivals are trying to have him banned from the elections on charges stemming from an obscure land dispute. The outcome will determine Mexico's immediate political future as well as future relations with the United States.