墨西哥執政黨贏得議會中期選舉

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and his allies retained a slim working majority Monday in the lower house of Congress following mid-term elections.

墨西哥星期一舉行了議會下院選舉，涅託總統及其盟友在中期選舉後，繼續在議會掌握得以維持運作的微弱多數。

The run-up to Sunday's poll was marked by violence, with drug cartels blamed for the deaths of several candidates.

星期日舉行選舉之前發生了暴力事件，據稱幾名候選人死於販毒集團之手。

Mid-term elections usually draw a light turnout, but attention was unusually high this time as a loose coalition of radical teachers' unions and activists vowed to block the vote.

選民們在中期選舉中通常投票並不踊躍，但由於持激進立場的教師工會和活動人士組成一個鬆散的聯盟，誓言抵制選舉，所以人們對這次中期選舉表現出不同尋常的關注。

The teachers' demands included huge wage increases, an end to teacher testing and the safe return of 42 missing students from a radical teachers' college.

教師們要求大幅加薪、停止進行教師考試，並要求保證一所激進的師範學院的42名失蹤學生的安全。

Those students disappeared in September, and prosecutors say they were killed and incinerated by a drug gang. Only one student's remains were identified by DNA testing.

這些學生於去年9月失蹤，檢察官說，一個販毒團伙已把他們殺害，並焚化了屍體。經DNA檢測，只辨認出一名學生的屍體。