Word: baer
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...most recent polls indicate that voters may well adhere to their favorite axiom: Better the evil you know than the one you have yet to meet. "Mexicans are torn between their desire for change and their fear of change," says Delal Baer, director of the Mexico Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. In the privacy of the voting booth, she added, they may well choose the certitude of the P.R.I. over the question marks represented by the opposition...
More than sympathy, of course, the party symbolizes stability to an unsettled society. "The P.R.I. will be stronger," says Delal Baer, a specialist on Mexico at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "In times of trouble, people seek refuge in what they know. They will turn to the P.R.I., with all its warts and flaws...
...Baer also believes that Mexicans fear the violence they see around them and will work hard to submerge it. "They are afraid of themselves," she says, "so they are going to control themselves." If the country is to retain the confidence of overseas investors -- mainly American -- who provide the capital essential for growth, it must demonstrate its ability to maintain stability. L. Kip Smith, president of the American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico, says that will happen because of "the foundation that has been built, the spirit of the people, the desire for progress." More concretely, David West...
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...There is a two-tier system," Baer said. "There is the traditional news reporting. But now there is a sassy kind of reporting, bordering on commentary...