Carmen Aristegui 17. Aristegui worked for "El Universal", for which she co-wrote the column "Círculo rojo" with Javier Solórzano. As of 2013 she writes a column for "Reforma". Aristegui's first book, "Uno De Dos 2006: Mexico en la Encrucijada" (""One of Two 2006: Mexico at the Crossroads""), profiles President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the leading presidential candidates in that year's federal election in Mexico. She explained that she had written the book in order to offer readers "a very interesting overview and X-ray of the country" and to provide insights into the ways the candidates had resolved specific
Mexican general election, 2006 the debate, but he was not allowed to enter the building where he made the demand. He even brought his own chair. Candidates with no political parties are not permitted to compete in elections under Mexican law, and votes for all write-in candidates are counted together, regardless of which write-in candidate the vote was cast. On September 5, 2006, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa was declared President-Elect by the Federal Electoral Tribunal after a highly controversial post-electoral process. Eight political parties participated in the 2006 presidential election; five of them joined forces in two different electoral coalitions. Competition was intense, with the