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La Ciudad. Real Mexican People. ¿Qué es un "bilinbique" Benito Juárez. Mexiko - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten. Politics - May 06, 2012 - Mexican presidential candidates face off in debate. May 06, 2012E. Eduardo Castillo Rivals of the front-runner in Mexico's presidential race attacked him Sunday night as a liar with ties to corrupt figures in the country's former ruling party, filling Mexico's first candidates debate with acrimonious exchanges of accusations and counter-accusations. The tone heated up nearly halfway through the two-hour debate as Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the third-place candidate of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, reached behind his lectern and pulled out a photo of Enrique Pena Nieto, the candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, smiling alongside a political ally whose career ended in accusations of corruption.

"Who is Enrique Pena Nieto, really? " Pena Nieto responded that his ally, former Mexico state Gov. "There are two ways of lying," she said. "They seem to have come to an agreement," he said, after a round of attacks from his two main opponents. Another presidential debate is scheduled for June 10. Unión de Cooperativas Tosepan Titataniske.