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...PRI government represented a lot of vested interests in Chiapas who didn't want to see their business interests jeopardized by big changes in the state's political situation. Many of these local PRI leaders and businessmen even created their own paramilitary groups. But Fox realizes that the indigenous people of Chiapas have legitimate complaints. They've always been treated like a colonized people by successive Mexican governments, and Fox wants to change that...
...gives him little to spend on efforts to promote economic growth, which remains his overarching priority. But even if he had the money to spend, he'd have to contend with the fact that he lacks a majority in the legislature, and most state governors still belong to the PRI. The charisma and swagger that helped him sweep out the PRI with only limited backing from his own National Action Party (PAN) aren't going to help him govern - his success now will rest on his ability to cut deals and make alliances...
...will need the congressional backing of many in the PRI and the smaller opposition Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) for his campaign to restructure the security system to make it less corrupt and more responsive. He'll need them even more in his campaign to privatize more of the country's energy sector, which is a tall order in a nation whose electorate thinks of Mexico's oil as a national resource and has blocked every previous effort toward privatization. But in Fox's scheme, privatization remains the key to attracting the foreign investment necessary to achieve his economic growth targets...
...desperate as the odds may appear, Fox still has plenty going for him. The corrupt vested interests that dominate the bureaucracy may be intimately entwined with the PRI, but the former ruling party is in disarray, and that gives the new president plenty of openings. To be sure, the PRI's power structure was built on an elaborate system of patronage, and being in opposition considerably diminishes the party's ability to deliver to its regional and local baronies and fiefdoms. That will allow Fox to bolster political support for his own programs by going directly to PRI governors...
...More importantly, perhaps, Fox's election victory gave Mexicans a first taste of the power of democracy to change the way they're governed, and that has to have struck fear into the PRI pooh-bahs. Fox is starting out with a 70 percent approval rating, and that may make many PRI officials more inclined to cut deals with him than to tempt the ire of the electorate by openly opposing...