Word: echeverria
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...well as the country's 3,000,000 Indians, still live on less than $100 a year. Last week, as the green-white-and-red sash of office was draped over his right shoulder during inaugural ceremonies in Mexico City's Chapultepec Park, incoming President Luis Echeverria Alvarez pledged that his first order of business would be to help those people start digging...
During a strenuous, eight-month campaign tour that covered 35,000 miles and took him to 900 towns, Echeverria, 48, got an eyeful of the hardscrabble conditions under which so many of his countrymen live. So did scores of government officials and businessmen who accompanied him for three-week periods. Many Mexicans wondered why Echeverria even bothered. As the candidate of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (P.R.I.), which has only token opposition, he was a shoo-in; in July's elections, he won 86% of the vote. Nevertheless, Echeverria was determined that he and other Mexican leaders should get "reacquainted...
...Echeverria, an efficient administrator and decision maker, is following a well-trodden path. Eight of his nine most recent predecessors served as Interior Minister, the most important Cabinet post, before taking over the presidency. Diaz Ordaz and other P.R.I, chieftains expect little change in policies-with good reason, for Echeverria was selected as party candidate by the President himself, in concert with party leaders and the country's three living ex-Presidents...
...Echeverria's major challenge will be to spur the growth of the underdeveloped rural economy; at least half of Mexico's 47 million people live in areas largely untouched by the prosperity that has brought forests of TV antennas, rows of private homes and traffic jams to the large cities. Party reform also ranks high on the list of priorities. Last year's pre-Olympic riots, during which police shot at least 33 people to death and wounded 500 others in Mexico City's Plaza de Las Tres Culturas, showed the depth of discontent and impatience...
...lawyer and political scientist who entered politics 23 years ago, the new presidential candidate defines his position as "neither to the right, nor to the left, nor in a static center, but onward and upward." Just how quickly Echeverria will move, however, remains in question. Stable leadership has given Mexico four decades of political and economic progress, while South American nations have suffered 40 coups since 1930. Recently, however, the party has displayed an increasing reluctance to stay in step with the times...