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...President's handpicked candidate, Interior Secretary Santiago Creel, for the nomination, choosing instead Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, a former head of PAN who is running second or third in most of the polls. Calderon alternates places in the polls with Roberto Madrazo Pintado, the candidate of the Partido Revolutionario Institucional (PRI), which held a monopoly on the presidency until Fox's election in 2000. There is a formal campaign "truce" among the candidates until January 19. At that time, however, an expensive, ad-filled election season is expected to inundate the country with $750 million in spending. AMLO's allies...
...seen an odd combination of civilian rule and illiberal policy, of great growth and modernization and extreme poverty and remnants of an old system, which created a constant tension between the successfully co-opting government and those few who sought to protest the lingering injustices. The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) long held virtually complete power and brought many changes to larger Mexico, but few to Chiapas...
...need for the movement to branch out and fight for socialism globally by whatever means necessary. Their conflicting viewpoints revealed an internal conflict that has undermined the largest opportunity to effect change ever given to a revolutionary group. When President Fox came to power in Mexico, overcoming the PRI, he called the EZLN to the negotiating table. But the EZLN, led by its ever-charismatic yet confusing spokesman, Marcos, retreated into the jungle. The EZLN had been given the opportunity few other revolutionary groups, especially those who have used terror, would ever have, due to its position in such...
...radio commentator, writer and performer.? Her last solo show was "Sugar Plum Fairy" at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.? Her series "The Loh Down" is heard monthly on Marketplace (PRI...
...always make heroic Presidents. Lech Walesa toppled Polish communism in the 1980s, but presided over a mediocre government in the 1990s. Many fear the same will be true of Mexican President Vicente Fox. Riding a wave of hope and optimism in 2000, Fox defeated the dictatorial Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which had ruled Mexico since 1929. But since then, he's faced mostly legislative defeats and diminished stature. It wasn't until last week, when George W. Bush finally proposed the U.S. immigration reforms that Fox has long urged, that Fox got to savor his first big presidential victory...