COLUMN: MEXICO'S ELECTION RESULT IS THE WORST POSSIBLE SCENARIO

MEXICO CITY -- The virtual tie among Mexico's top presidential candidates in Sunday's election is one of the worst possible scenarios for this country: it creates new political tensions and the prospect that whoever wins will be politically weak, with no working majority in Congress. While President Vicente Fox won the 2000 election with 42 percent of the votes, the new president will win with only 36 percent of the votes. Read the full column here.