Word: pries
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this point I questioned Sr. Rodolfo closely on his political statements. Was he a strong PRI candidate, or were so many people in favor of the ruling party that Salinas was guaranteed...
...passing out political propaganda. There were colorful political banners all around and a man was driving a van while proclaiming the merits of the Socialist candidate Cuahetomoc Cardenas through a megaphone on top of the vehicle. The opposition candidate directs his appeals to disaffected members of the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) and workers...
...with a megaphone, whom I presume was a member of the Socialist party, I was upset to see so few people at the procession. For a city some claim is over 25 million strong, I thought, surely more than a few hundred people were in opposition to the PRI, which has been in power for decades...
...began asking the people who I met what they felt about the upcoming elections. And, while I did find that most of them were in opposition to the PRI, they were resigned to the fact that as it had won for the past six decades, so it would win again. I was left with the impression that many Mexican people did not feel any good would come of any attempt to change...
...seen the name Salinas all over the walls and posters of the city, and I wondered why he seemed to be receiving such widespread support. When I asked my cab driver, who went by the name Sr. Rodolfo, if Carlos Salinas de Gotari was the official candidate of the PRI, he informed me that well, yes, he was the candidate of the PRI, but more than that, he would be the next President of Mexico...