Mexican ‘left’ could win vote:

Anti-government protesters block a street in Caracas, Venezuela, April 24. Thousands of protesters shut down the capital city’s main highway to express their disgust with the socialist administration of President Nicolas Maduro. Protesters in at least a dozen

other cities also staged sit-ins as the protest movement is entering its fourth week. (AP)

Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Michoacan San Luis Potosi, Durango and Zacatecas, according to a post on Luis Felipe Puente’s Twitter account.

Puente encouraged people with information about the stolen material to report it but added: “don’t open it.”

Stolen or lost radioactive material has on several occasions been reported in Mexico, most recently early last year when a container of radioactive substance used for industrial X-rays, a method of non-destructive testing, was taken along with a car. (RTRS)

Mexico’s ruling party could be defeated by the candidate of leftist leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in a June state election seen as a litmus test for next year’s presidential race, a newspaper poll showed on Tuesday.

On June 4, voters will choose a new governor in the State of Mexico. The most populous state in the country, it is a bastion of President Enrique Pena Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which won by a landslide in the last election in 2011.

However, the poll by daily Reforma showed Delfina Gomez of Lopez Obrador’s party, the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), holding a wafer-thin lead over PRI rival Alfredo del Mazo, a cousin of Pena Nieto.

The survey of 1,000 voters showed 29 percent backing Gomez and 28 percent del Mazo, with 22 percent favoring Josefina Vazquez Mota, a former presidential candidate for the center-right opposition National Action Party, or PAN.

A March poll by Reforma had shown del Mazo with a one-point lead over Gomez in the state, where the PRI has held power since the party’s inception. (RTRS)