Word: prying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...TIME: Do you think things will go as badly for Zedillo when he steps down as they did for you? SALINAS: I just hope that Zedillo won't be subject to a persecution of the state. And, I think he owes the PRI an explanation of why he brought the party to an historical defeat...
...TIME: Are you returning to politics? SALINAS: I've said that I won't return to the political trenches. I said that before the PRI lost the elections --and I confirmed that decision afterwards...
...political party in what has been at least a nominal democracy, 71 years is a virtual eternity in power. Were the Institutional Revolutionary Party (such a wonderful, oxymoronic name) a basketball team, it'd be the old Boston Celtics; if they were playing hockey in Mexico City the PRI would surely be the Canadiens...
...just like those squads, the PRI came to the end of its run this weekend, losing not only the presidency but also a number of key government positions to challengers for the first time, um, ever. The big winner: Ex-Coca-Cola exec Vicente Fox and his National Action Party. Fox beat PRI candidate Francisco Labastida in a close race that in many ways came down to a question of style. And swagger...
...Labastida's name, dubbing him "La vestida" (meaning "the dressed woman" or "the skirt"), he started a machismo bidding war that made the campaign look like a "Saturday Night Live" skit. The negative campaigning, though, is one sign of Mexico's maturing democracy. And the fact that the PRI is now faced with making its bones flattering voters, moving to the center and making promises it can't keep - just like its U.S. counterparts - is another. Paging Dick Morris - there are some new opportunities for you south of the border, down Mexico...