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Mexico's Pena Nieto sworn in as president amid protests

Mexico's new President Enrique Pena Nieto pledged to reduce the poverty and violence plaguing his country after a rowdy swearing-in ceremony marked by protests inside and outside Congress.

Enrique Pena Nieto delivers his first speech as new president of Mexico at the National Palace on December 1, 2012. Pena Nieto's inauguration brought back the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled Mexico with an authoritarian hand for 71 years until it lost its first election in 2000.

Pena Nieto's inauguration brought back the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled Mexico with an authoritarian hand for 71 years until it lost its first election in 2000.

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