Word: pry
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presidency. The executive is by far the most important branch of the government. Some "Mexicanologists" see the president as holding complete dictatorial power, limited only by a six-year term. Not only is the president the law-maker, he is the head of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), the one party in a virtually single party system. PRI has won all presidential and senatorial elections since the end of the Mexican Revolution, 50 years ago. Yet the government has institutions even stronger than PRI for directing Mexican life and progress. These are three occupational sector organizations--labor, peasant, and popular...
...create organizations to control the students. All have failed. In 1968 students turned away from any group which they suspected of having the slightest connection with the government. Even traditional leftist parties such as the communists and Trotskyites were driven off the campuses for fear of their possible PRI influence. Since 1968 neither a PRI official or a hard-line communist has been welcomed in Mexican universities...
...grown up in a peaceful society, tired of a system which in the interests of stability left them little decision-making power. They wanted to pick their own leaders and run their own organizations. Foreseeing major disturbances unless the government opened its closed doors. Carlos Madrazo, the president of PRI in 1964, began to democratize the party by initiating primary elections. He was fired by President Diaz Ordaz who ruled over a Mexico increasingly torn by student strife. Finally in 1968 thousands of protestors challenged the very basis of his presidential power...
...PRI's influence is omnipresent, and as if to remind everyone of it the party has sprayed the countryside with its name and Echeverria's to an extent that Coke and Pepsi couldn't hope to match. For PRI, Echeverria just represents the next few years. The party has certainly chosen his successor already, and probably his successor's successor. The presidential term is six years long and PRI is wise in its choices. But it does not have a reputation for love of democracy. When in 1965 party chief Carlos Madrazo proposed a system for gubernatorial primaries in Mexican...
...Whether PRI will continue to run the country without opposition will be decided by the determination of young Mexicans to force reform. Those who see Mexico now as a political volcano expect students to do the erupting. The only guerrilla group that has acted openly in the last month is the "Cemite Armado de Liberacion Emiliano Zapata" led by veteran revolutionary Genaro Vasquez. Among the groups outside of Guerrero it is difficult to say which are guerrillas and which are banditos. Mexico's healthy but deeply submerged communist party does not have the strength to be a threat...