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Mexican Congressman Prods Government With Challenges

Fox's use of vetoes is a start, he says

06/22/2006
David Gaddis Smith, San Diego Union Tribune

When President Vicente Fox vetoed a measure during his first year in office, it was the first by a Mexican president in 35 years.

The reason there had been no vetoes for so long was that Congress had long been a rubber stamp for Mexican presidents, a Mexican congressman said last week at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California San Diego.


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