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How the vote abroad was won
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Pineda, Raúl Ross |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Abstract | n 1917, Kansas City's Hispanic publication El Cosmopolita (The Cosmopolitan) called on Mexicans to participate in “expe r imental” Mexican presidential elections. This is the oldest known indication of the desire of Mexicans abroad to vote in their home country's elections. Almost 90 years later, on July 30, 2005, the Diario Oficial de la Federacion (Official Gazette) published the law amending Mexico's electoral legislation so that Mexicans abroad can really vote for the first time in the 2006 presidential elections. In 1929, Los Angeles's La Opinion published a series of articles about demands by Mexican sympathizers of the Vasconcelos movement living in the United States to be allowed to vote in Mexico's presidential elections. Aside from these examples, researchers found no other exam ples of these kinds of demands in the past linking them to recent events that led to the 2005 reform. The movement in favor of Mexicans' being allowed to vote abroad was reborn in the late 1980s, mainly in U.S. cities with large Mexican |
| Starting Page | 7 |
| Ending Page | 12 |
| Page Count | 6 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.revistascisan.unam.mx/Voices/pdfs/7402.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
