Word: jalisco
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...going on?--is being asked throughout Mexico, in Washington and on Wall Street. Is the Mexican government at war or peace with rebels in the southern state of Chiapas? Does the governing party's electoral defeat in Mexico's second biggest city, Guadalajara, and in the state of Jalisco portend a loss of political control or a heartening turn toward genuine democracy--or maybe both? Most important, does Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, less than three months into his six-year term, have a consistent strategy for dealing with political and financial crises, or is he just grasping...
...elections in Jalisco and its capital city of Guadalajara showed Zedillo in a better light--because his party lost by a landslide. After more than 60 years of control at all levels of Mexican politics by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), Zedillo has pledged to lead the country toward a real pluralistic democracy. To make good, Zedillo must show that the P.R.I. will allow honest elections and abide by the results. The P.R.I., in other words, can win back public confidence only by losing a few important elections. Many party reformers quickly resigned themselves to the victory--by more than...
...winners in Jalisco support some aspects of Zedillo's economic belt-tightening program. Nonetheless, some Jalisco voters turned against the P.R.I. in part because of dismay over the nation's financial crisis. Since the December devaluation of the peso and the resulting sharp rise in prices, ``we earn enough to half-eat,'' jokes Catalina Ventura, speaking for herself and Concepcion Martinez, two saleswomen in a crafts shop in Tlaquepaque, outside Guadalajara, explaining why they had abandoned the P.R.I. to vote P.A.N. Such sentiments do not bode well for Zedillo's ability to unify the country behind the tough measures that...
...show of force ended a 12-month cease-fire that began after the Jan. 1, 1994, Zapatista insurrection left 145 dead and shattered Mexico's modernizing image. The crackdown also came as Zedillo's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party faced a difficult Feb. 12 election in the central state of Jalisco. That was a suspicious coincidence to some analysts, but Zedillo said his moves were triggered by fears of expanded Zapatista military action...
While Felix Gallardo was being seized in the western state of Jalisco, Mexican army troops were used to swoop down on his hometown of Culiacan, the capital of the northwestern state of Sinaloa, and arrested every police officer on the force...