Word: pry
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...have sounded strange, on the campaign trail in 2006, when Mexico's President Felipe Calderon warned members of his conservative National Action Party (PAN) to repress "the little PRI-ista we all carry inside us." PRI, of course, is the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which ruled Mexico as a corrupt one-party dictatorship for 71 years until the PAN finally ousted it in 2000. Unconvinced that the ruling party had indeed exorcised its inner-PRI, Mexico's voters in Sunday's midterm election indulged their own by voting in droves for the PRI...
...PRI emerged from Sunday's poll as the dominant force in Mexico's 500-seat legislature, and in pole position for the 2012 presidential race. The PAN lost almost 50 seats, leaving it with 146, while the PRI picked up 100 to secure 233. (The leftist Democratic Revolution Party won on ly 72 seats, continuing the downward spiral it began after coming within half a percentage of winning the presidency in 2006.) The PRI's quasi-coalition with Mexico's Green Party, which grabbed 22 seats, gives it a tacit congressional majority that promises to "paralyze" Calderon's presidency...
...Equally important is the question of what impact the PRI's comeback will have on Mexico's fledgling democracy. There are few indications that the party - notorious for epic corruption, vote-rigging and often violent co-opting of opponents when it held power - has been much chastened by its ouster from power in 2000. Numerous PRI officials on the federal, state and local levels continue to face allegations, for example, that they're cozy with Mexico's powerful drug cartels. Just as troubling is the party's vacuous political philosophy, which critics say still consists of little more than...
Others claim the movement could be a Machiavellian conspiracy against certain parties. Pollsters consider that a low turnout would favor the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ran Mexico for 71 straight years until 2000 and still has the largest number of card-carrying members. A survey by polling firm Demotecnia predicts that the PRI will carry 36% of the vote on election day, while President Felipe Calderon's National Action Party will drop to 31% and the leftist Democratic Revolution Party will get a meager...
Democracy will survive in Mexico, too, even if the PRI moves back into power in three years. But the Obama Administration should do as much as it can to help keep that from happening - starting with epidemiological aid to Calderon's government. From trade to immigration to the drug war, the U.S. has much more at stake in Mexico than it has in Poland. All the more reason for Washington to make sure swine flu doesn't become Calderon's earthquake...