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Talk about short honeymoons. Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexico's newly elected President, was about to drape the sash of office over his shoulder last week when the disruptions began. As several hundred guests looked on in Mexico City's Legislative Palace, 139 legislators who supported Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, the nationalist...
While Salinas has pledged to "modernize" the highly-centralized, corporatist political system in which the PRI has come to monopolize political control, he has yet to give any clear indication as to how he will open up the system to competitive party politics and insure that candidates for public office...
So far, Salinas has yet to show any such independence in his Cabinet appointments. He was putting young, foreign-educated technocrats in top economic positions, while maintaining the intransigent old guard of PRI leaders, who will resist any attempts to weaken the party's hold over the state in key...
A recent $3.5 million loan from the U.S. government gives Salinas some breathing space as he attempts to promote economic reform and market-based growth as a way out of Mexico's financial quagmire.
At the same time, Salinas must go beyond mere rhetorical fluorishes in making a commitment to democracy, take on the entrenched "dinosaurs" and bureaucrats of his own party and enable opposition parties to compete on an equal basis in the electoral process after more than a half-century of authoritarian...