By The Associated Press ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON (Associated Press)
Quick Read Mexico's former ruling party leader hits old-style scandals on road to rebrand for 2012
Photo credit: AP | FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2006 file photo, Coahuila, Mexico, Gov. Humberto Moreira Valdes talks with another governor before the opening ceremony of the border governors conference in the Texas Capitol in Austin , Texas. Moreira, who heads the Institutional Revolutionary Party , or PRI, helped pull off a decisive gubernatorial victory in Mexico's most populous state in 2011 and was heading into the 2012 presidential campaign fielding the strongest candidate when federal officials reported a massive debt in the state that Moreira governed until January 2011. Moreira has called the claims a smear campaign against the PRI as it is poised to regain the presidency it lost in 2000 after 71 years of rule. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck, File)
(AP) -- The leader of Mexico's long-ruling political dynasty is facing some old-style scandals in his campaign to repair the party's image and regain the presidency in 2012.
Humberto Moreira, who heads the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, recently helped his party's candidate pull off a decisive gubernatorial victory in Mexico's most populous state. Now, just as the PRI under Moreira...
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