The Run-Up to Mexico's 2013 Elections: Deadly Serious Yet at Times Fun Frontera NorteSur
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Though downplayed by the international press, strategic state and local elections will be held this summer in 15 Mexican states. The northern border states of Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila and Tamaulipas are among the entities where voters will go to the polls in uncertain numbers.

As the July 7 election day creeps closer, the political mood is punctuated by accusations of excessive campaign spending, last-minute party switching, charges of narco-infiltration, church and state controversies, popular revulsion, and renewed predictions of widespread voter abstention.

Assessing this year's competition as one that is not taken seriously by the majority of the electorate, Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez sociologist and columnist Carlos Murillo Gonzalez writes that electoral coalitions and alliances stripped of ideological content, "cheap discourses," vote-buying, and "markedly business candidacies" define Decision 2013.

Scattered episodes of violence, especially in regions dominated by organized crime, have once again marred some contests.

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