Educado en Harvard, a quien el New York Times una vez describiera como “una hombre que habla con todo el fuego e ímpetu de un economista” fue percibido por la opinión pública en México como un candidato de derecha, amigo de empresarios. En este comercial es evidente el esfuerzo por convertirlo en una antítesis del otro contendiente fuerte en las elecciones presidenciales de México del 2006: Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador.

Does Felipe Calderón love his children? We are quite sure that he does. If this promotional video for the possible heir to fellow PANista Vicente Foxe seems to you to have a “North of the border” slickness, it may not be simply coincidental.

Just over a quarter of Mexico’s 127.5 million people are aged 18-24, and as such the “youth vote” could easily make or break any candidate in Mexico’s upcoming election on July 2. Patterned after the “Rock the Vote” campaign in the USA, Tu Rock Es Votar is running a television, radio and web campaign that hopes to improve voter turnout in the Mexican youth population despite a general desencantado (“disenchanted”) attitude found amongst all eligible voters.