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Mexico prepares to swear in president; old ruling party returning to power with a new face
• MEXICO CITY (AP) -- The party that ruled Mexico for seven decades returns to power Saturday with a president from a new generation to govern a country that has changed dramatically in the 12 years since the Institutional Revolutionary Party last held the top post.
• Enrique Pena Nieto will take the oath of office after campaigning as the face of a new PRI -- a party that claims to be repentant and reconstructed after being voted out of the presidency in 2000. The PRI ruled for 71 years with a mix of populist handouts, graft and rigged elections.
• Pena Nieto has promised to govern democratically with transparency. But his first moves even before the inauguration showed a solid link to the past.
• In announcing his Cabinet on Friday, he turned to the old guard as well as new technocrats to run his administration.
• "I don't think there is any such thing as a 'new PRI,'" said Rodrigo Aguilera, the Mexico analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit. "There is a new generation of PRI members, but they don't represent any fundamentally different outlook."
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Analysis: For Myanmar's Suu Kyi, pragmatism a major lesson in post-junta political life
• BANGKOK (AP) -- For Aung San Suu Kyi the democracy activist, the 25-year struggle against Myanmar's former army rulers was a largely black-and-white affair -- a clear fight for freedom against one of the world's most oppressive regimes.
• But Suu Kyi the elected lawmaker is finding it a lot more difficult to pick her battles, and she's a lot more pragmatic when she does.
• With the long-ruling junta gone and a reformist government in place, the political prisoner-turned-parliamentarian is now part of a nascent government dealing with a complex transition to democracy -- even as she maintains her role as opposition leader.
• This week, Suu Kyi moved to settle a dispute that has festered in the northwest for years: controversy over a military-backed copper mine in Letpadaung that has raised environmental concern and forced villagers from their land with little compen (Continued on page 36)
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