MEXICO CITY: The campaign for Mexico’s July 1 presidential election began in earnest on Sunday (Monday in Manila) as the country’s top parties officially nominated their candidates, with all three front-runners trying to sell a message of change.

It is still a wide-open race to succeed President Enrique Peña Nieto, who is deeply unpopular heading into the final stretch of his six-year term in a Mexico beset by endless corruption scandals and record levels of violent crime.

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