++ Mexico’s Central Bank, “Banco de México”, for the second time this year
auctioned off dollars to defend the peso in the midst of speculative attacks
that led to a more than 2 percent devaluation of the peso. The peso exchange
rate fell to 14.45 pesos per dollar… This is the lowest the peso has fallen
since March 2009.
++ A national newspaper survey found a
four-percentage point difference between PRI candidate Enrique Peña Nieto and
his closest rival, leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
++ The PRI filed a complaint with the IFE against
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the PRD, the Labor Party and Citizens’ Movement
accusing them of breaking campaign spending limits. This came in the wake of
reports that aides to López Obrador met with businessmen to request six million
dollars for his campaign.
++ Leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López
Obrador said he has no problems with going to the IFE if he is called in… He declared
that after a survey found him just four points under Peña Nieto with 34 per
cent of voter´s preference against the frontrunner’s 38 per cent, that he was
in a technical tie with the PRI candidate.





