Fistfight brings the House down

Mexico City - A fistfight between centre-left deputies and lawmakers from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) forced …

Mexico City - A fistfight between centre-left deputies and lawmakers from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) forced Mexico's Chamber of Deputies to close yesterday.

The fistfight broke out after a PRI deputy demanded the expulsion of several PRD lawmakers who were waving banners with slogans against the government's neoliberal economic policies. - (AFP)

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