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Mexico opposition eyes return as campaign opens

AFP

Mexico officially launched its general election campaign Friday, with the main opposition party favored to regain the power it lost in 2000 after 71 years of rule. President Felipe Calderon, of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), is not eligible for a second term but his war on drug traffickers.