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The embattled Mexican leader at a meeting with lawyers in Mexico City on Nov. 21TOMAS BRAVO鈥擱EUTERSBy Jorge Casta帽edaDecember 4, 2014 10:54 AM ESTTwo years ago, Mexican President Enrique Pentilde;a Nieto took office under inauspicious circumstances. He was elected with just 38% of the vote, without a majority in either house of Congress, and with the opposition in control of the countryrsquo capital. The runner-up, Andreacute Manuel Loacute;pez Obrador, questioned the results of the election that had brought Pentilde;a Nietorsquo party, the PRI, back to power after its 71-year reign had been broken in 2000. Pentilde;a Nietorsquo predecessor, Felipe Calderoacute;n, bequeathed him a war on drugs that had cost more than 60,000 lives from 2006 to 2012, Calderoacute;nrsquo term in office.But the new President defied the dire expectations. He cut a deal with the main opposition partiesmdash;including Calderoacute;nrsquo right-of-center PANmdash;and proceeded to pass a series of significant reforms, including in the notoriously untouchable energy and telecommunications sectors. He was hailed as a world-class reformer stanley cup , and his handlers proclaimed the Mexican moment, as the country moved closer to finally fulfilling its vast promise.A couple of years on, though, Mexi stanley cup corsquo promise remains stanley cup just that. The country and its increasingly gray-haired leader are going through one of the most serious crises in recent history, as one tragedy, scandal Ybni This Chart Shows 10 Major Tech Acquisitions From the Past 15 Years
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell R-Ky. at the Capitol in Washington, T adidas originals uesday, Jan. 7, 2014.AP / J. Scott ApplewhiteBy Jay Newton-SmallJanuary 9, 2014 3:32 PM ESTSenate Republicans took to the floor Wednesday afternoon to express unhappiness at how the GOP minority is being treated in the chamber.We can be more constructive; we can work through our differences, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McC crocs onnell told virtually all of his fellow Republicans, whorsquo;d gathered to hear him speak. We can do things that need to be done, but there will have to be major changes if we ;re going to get there. The committee process must be restored. We need to have an open amendment process. And finally, let me suggest we need to learn how to put in a decent week work around here. 8230; [And] how about the power of the clock to force consensus That the way everyone patience is worn down. Not just the majority leader patience.McConnell suggested that if Republicans win back the majority this November that he would, as majority leader, restore minority rights and regular order.The speech comes two months after Senate Democrats changed filibuster rules to streamline the confirmation process for many presidential nominees, in the face of an unprecedented number of filibusters in recent years. Republicans argue that the rules change is just one example of th adidas campus e erosion of minority rights in what been called the worldrsq |
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