Word: cuauhtemoc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those words had a hollow ring in the state of Michoacan, where the results of the state legislature's race -- another of the five state elections held last week -- remain hotly contested by Cuauhtemoc Cardenas and his Democratic Revolutionary Party (P.R.D.). The old pattern of fraud and stolen elections seemed to be reasserting itself as the P.R.I. claimed to have won ten of the 18 electoral districts while the P.R.D., alleging widespread irregularity, insisted that it had carried 15 districts. At a press conference on election day, Cardenas accused the P.R.I. of cheating by changing the location of the casillas...
...under increasing pressure to find a solution to the debt crisis. Last year Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari won election by the narrowest margin in his party's 59-year history over left-of-center candidate Cuauhtemoc Cardenas. In Brazil left-wing parties have mounted a serious challenge to President Jose Sarney. And a nationalist party in Argentina could win the presidential elections...
Talk about short honeymoons. Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexico's newly elected President, was about to drape the sash of office over his shoulder last week when the disruptions began. As several hundred guests looked on in Mexico City's Legislative Palace, 139 legislators who supported Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, the nationalist candidate who came in second in last July's elections, marched out. Then about 30 members of the right-wing National Action Party raised placards reading SIX YEARS OF FRAUD...
...Cuauhtemoc Cardenas is not certain, but he thinks that the very room in which he slept as a child 50 years ago is now being used as an office by the President of Mexico. In trying to regain that room -- and the rest of Los Pinos, as the presidential residence is known -- Cardenas has changed the political landscape of his country more than anyone, even he, believed possible...
...thunderstorm pounding Mexico City was fierce enough to suggest that the ancient Aztec deities were mightily displeased. Nevertheless, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas had no trouble assembling more than 100 journalists last Monday night outside his mother's house, the unofficial headquarters of his quixotic presidential campaign. "The figures that we have received show that I have won," he intoned as lightning sliced ominously through the black sky. "We won. Definitely." At precisely that moment, the house went pitch dark, the electricity knocked out by the storm...