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Some of the loudest challenges are coming from Mexico's eight opposition parties. The largest by far is the National Action Party, a conservative organization with strength in the northern states of Sonora and Chihuahua and a growing constituency among the middle class. Traditionally, the P.A.N. has had two weaknesses: a failure to build grass-roots support and a tendency to recede into the shadows except at election time. The P.A.N.'s newly elected leader, Luis Alvarez, 67, is determined, however, to make his party a truly national...
...uproar caused by blatant voting irregularities in Mexico's largest state, Chihuahua, reached all the way to the Rio Grande last week. A crowd of 5,000 Mexicans staged a 24-hr. protest on the Bridge of the Americas, the heavily traveled border crossing that separates Chihuahua's main city, Ciudad Juarez, from El Paso. They demanded that the official results of the July 6 elections for governor, state legislature and mayoral seats be nullified. The demonstration caused long delays for the estimated 600 semitrailers that cross the bridge daily...
...blockade was the latest outpouring of public rage in Chihuahua, where candidates of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) were declared victors in 80 out of 82 statewide contests. Supporters of Mexico's conservative opposition group, the National Action Party, claim that the P.R.I., which in 57 years has never lost a gubernatorial or presidential election, engaged in large-scale vote switching and ballot fraud to avoid an embarrassing loss in Chihuahua...
However routine, the surprising landslide enraged many P.A.N. supporters. Stores across the state closed down for a day, and nearly 10,000 people gathered in the city of Chihuahua's main plaza while Francisco Barrio, P.A.N.'s candidate for governor, urged them to block roads and boycott progovernment newspapers...
...questionable election result was a blow to President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado's vaunted campaign of "moral renovation." In 1983, De la Madrid's first year in power, Mexico enjoyed rare fraud-free elections. P.A.N. won mayorships in all of the seven largest cities of Chihuahua. P.R.I. officials privately vowed not to let such a calamity recur. Last year the ruling party resorted to flagrant irregularities while securing victory in elections in two northern states; in December it changed Chihuahua's laws so that the preparation and tallying of votes would be undertaken by P.R.I. agents. Such practices, however...