Mexican Election
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - For all the talk of the rise of Latin America's left, Mexican presidential hopeful Felipe Calderon could show on Sunday that, while unfashionable, U.S.-style conservatives can still win hearts and minds.
Years of stuttering market reforms under outgoing President Vicente Fox from free trade to a credit card bonanza have taken root among many voters who fear leftists so popular in countries like Venezuela and Bolivia could bring ruin.
Leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is a slight favorite in Sunday's elections but polls are so close that a win for the Harvard-educated Calderon, promising more foreign investment and pro-business reforms, is a real possibility.
I think that a win for Lopez would make mining executives with properties in Mexico just a little uneasy.
If Lopez got influenced by Chavez, then maybe he would also want to nationalize the mineral properties that are so valuable.
We shall see what happens, but it is going to be a very interested time period up to and after the election results.