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...would be well worth the while of the members of Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to heed the warning of the poet now dead two millenia. The traditional party of Mexico for the past six decades, the PRI is proving too rigid in its effort to maintain political power in this month's presidential elections...
...talked about such behavior in my Latin American history class freshman year, and I guess I could just never accept such things as true. I had written essay question after essay question on my final exam on that very subject, the PRI's manipulation of the public, but the facts had never sunk in until then...
...other conversations convinced me that the PRI was there to stay. A second taxi driver with whom I spoke, for instance, explained that elections were really just a formality in the nation. "You think that we go and have a secret ballot election?" one asked me, "like you have in the north? Ha!" He said that in Mexico he had, in the past, written his vote on a piece of paper which disappeared into a cardboard box that he was convinced had ended up in the "basura", or trash. "Salinas will win," he said "even if no one votes...
...first opposition candidate in years to maintain widespread appeal, yet whether or not he could ever win is highly uncertain. It distressed me to see several people who might have voted for Cardenas or a new government, but did not plan to because they felt the dominance of the PRI was inevitable...
...other candidates belonging to such opposition parties as the conservative and northern-based National Action Party (PAN). It will also be interesting to see how the people react to the election results themselves and whether they will continue to resign themselves to a fate they feel only the PRI controls...