Sunday, July 1, 2012 11:23:15 PM NEWS ALERT Peña Nieto is winner of Mexican election, exit polls show Enrique Peña Nieto, a dynamic, crowd-pleasing politician and the new face of a once-corrupt political party, was elected president of Mexico on Sunday by a wide margin, according to exit polls by the country's major media outlets. Peña Nieto and his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which lost power in 2000 after more than 70 years as the "perfect dictatorship," performed a remarkable act of political rehabilitation, convincing voters tired of drug violence and slow economic growth that the 45-year-old former governor could make Mexico more prosperous, more secure and more fair. Read more at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/mexico-presidential-election-underway/2012/07/01/gJQAyd96FW_story.html Or visit washingtonpost.com .