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...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...
Recently, the party leadership faced its most serious internal challenge ever. Led by Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, 53, the son of a former President, a faction insisted that the selection process be opened up. The party met the demand halfway. Instead of keeping the process secret, the party leadership made public a list of six names. Each of the candidates then fielded questions from party officials at televised breakfast meetings...