The Maya of ancient Mexico believed time is cyclical; contrary to the hype surrounding their supposed prophecy of impending armageddon, many historians believe that December 2012 simply marks the end of one cycle in the Mayan calendar and the beginning of another.
It is fitting then, that this will be the month that Mexican history rolls both forward and backward at once. After a 12-year hiatus, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) will reclaim power on Saturday, December 1, when Enrique Peña Nieto is sworn in as president.
The fresh face of a party still intrinsically linked to an authoritarian age of political dinosaurs, Peña Nieto won 38 percent of the vote, beating his closest rival Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador by a margin of around three million votes.
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