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...peasants have few alternatives but to vote for the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), the party that has ruled Mexico without opposition for 50 years. To maintain its hegemony, the PRI minimizes political mobilization among the populace. Promises of government attention, combined with a foreign policy that even the most dedicated leftists cannot impugn, have traditionally kept activists quiet...
...Communists, led by the savvy Carrillo, had a simple aim: to make the party respectable in a country where it had been outlawed for 38 years. With caveats, they accepted the monarchy and its flag?to the point where wags dubbed them el Real Partido Comunista (the Royal Communist Party). The party's freewheeling rallies, including a giant, rain-soaked election-eve bash outside Madrid for more than 200,000 supporters, dazzled much of Spain. By contrast, Fraga's stodgy Alliance held many of its meetings by invitation only...
...legalization was so unexpected that Radio Nacional's announcer actually sputtered the words of the communiqué. Within hours, caravans of honking cars, draped with red flags, snaked through the streets of Madrid. Jubilant leftists sang militant choruses of the long-banned Internationale, and a huge PARTIDO COMUNISTA DE ESPAÑA sign was posted outside party headquarters. Suarez's action was generally applauded by Spain's left and center politicians, who regarded the lifting of the ban as a litmus of the regime's commitment to democracy...
Presidential candidates chosen by Mexico's dominant P.R.I. (Partido Revolucionario Institutional) are as certain of election as machine aldermen in Chicago. For that reason, power tends to drain rapidly from their lameduck predecessors as Presidents-elect stake out their policies. Since he was tapped to succeed Luis Echeverria as Mexico's President 14 months ago, José López Portillo has broken with that tradition. Even though he carried out a grueling 40,600-mile campaign from the oilfields and swamps of Tabasco to the high sierra, "Don Pepe" has promised only to govern by the "laws...
...Portillo, 56, who was Finance Minister in the present government and the personal choice of President Luis Echeverria Alvarez to succeed him. Because Mexican law limits a President to one six-year term, the incumbent customarily chooses the next standard bearer of the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (P.R.I.), which has dominated Mexican politics since 1929. Moreover, the failure of the tiny Partido de Accion Nacional (P.A.N.) to agree on a candidate left Lopez Portillo without even token opposition...