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...grandfather was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and he migrated to Mexico looking for his American dream,” said Fox, drawing laughs. Fox, a former Coca-Cola executive and member of the center-right National Action Party (PAN), broke the 72-year stranglehold of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) on Mexico when he was elected in 2000. He was succeeded in 2007 by fellow PAN-member Felipe Calderón, a graduate of the Kennedy School. Fox said that Calderón, who spoke at the Forum in February, is “going to be a great president...
DEFINITION pri-zoomd ken-sent n. A government policy under which a person's consent to donate organs after death is automatically presumed unless the person explicitly opts out. The policy removes the need for organ-donor cards or even family approval...
Imagine a morning radio program hosted by Adam Nagourney, Katie Couric, and Howard Stern.Okay, it might be a bit unbelievable. But it is, in a sense, what radio station WNYC and content provider Public Radio International (PRI) are planning on doing with a new morning talk show program. The proposed show would be a joint venture between The New York Times, the BBC, WNYC, PRI, and WGBH. The show is meant to compete with NPR’s “Morning Edition,” which currently has a stranglehold on morning talk programming. According to a PRI press...
...Mexico's drug war worsening? Democracy may be one culprit. As countries like Russia know, democratic transitions often create power vacuums that benefit organized crime. Under the authoritarian Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the drug cartels were tolerated but regulated by party bosses. After the PRI's 71-year rule ended in 2000, the government took steps to dismantle the cartels, only to watch them atomize into smaller but more sinister gangs. The most vicious is the Zetas, a 2,000-member army led by ex-commandos hired by the border-based Gulf Cartel because of their military skills. The Zetas...
DEFINITION pri-ven-tiv di-ten-shuhn n: Holding someone considered likely to commit a crime...