Vote-Buying Efforts Remain Time-Honored as Mexicans Reap Gifts
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When it comes to accepting campaign gifts, Rogelio Garcia is an equal-opportunity voter.
The unemployed Mexican chauffeur went shopping at his local Soriana supermarket in the capital last week with gift cards worth 2,300 pesos ($170) he says were given to him by the campaign of incoming President Enrique Pena Nieto. He said he also received handouts from supporters of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the runner-up, who accused Pena Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, of buying the July 1 election.