Word: pry
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
Every six years, the PRI's presidential candidate is handpicked by his predecessor before a meaningless election. This year's choice, Programming and Budget Minister Miguel de la Madrid, is a Kennedy School-educated, free-market conservative who says he favors closer cooperation with the United States. He will work to attract foreign investment and to increase the production of luxury goods. Though de la Madrid and his party can be praised for giving Mexico a half century of "stability" while much of Latin America has been engulfed in turmoil, it is this same party that has tolerated the existence...
...PRI analysts have concluded that the process in El Salvador is irreversible. In their view the best way to influence developments there is to establish early friendly relations with opposition forces and provide political and economic support for the new regime...
...PRI would like to limit the domestic impact of the Central American process
...Chairman and former CIA director, had modeled his entire campaign strategy on the one followed by Jimmy Carter in 1976. He hoped to win national attention in Iowa, as he certainly did, ride the sudden burst of publicity into upset victories or at least strong showings in the early pri maries, and then parlay those triumphs into the nomination...