NPR's Gerry Hadden reports that another election defeat for the party that for years ruled Mexico has re-ignited hopes that the government can reach a peace agreement with guerrillas in the south.

Before 2000, Mexicans used to joke that they could go to bed on election night knowing who the next president would be regardless of who won. Now the choice rests in the people's hands. It also ...

In 2000, an upstart former businessman-turned-politician barnstormed Mexico, promising to oust the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which had ruled the country for 71 long years by doling ...

Mexico Election NPR's Gerry Hadden profiles Francisco Labastida, the presidential candidate of Mexico's ruling Revolutionary Institutional Party, known as the PREE -- from its Spanish abbreviation ...