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...local experts on Mexico, President elect Miguel de la Maduad must be careful to play down his foreign connections and particularly his lingering reputation as a Harvard-trained technocrat or risk undermining his tenuous political legitimacy...
While experts agree that de la Madrid's exhaustive campaign did much to dispel his image as a U.S. educated technocrat not fully in touch with popular concerns, they say much of the Mexican Left continues to be skeptical of his commitment to the economic populism that is so central to the nation's political culture...
Only at the climax does Frankenheimer build something durable out of the mayhem: a metaphorical bridge between old and new Japan, between the integrity of the samurai and the ingenuity of the technocrat. The warlord's fortress is an executive suite; the watchtowers are electronic eyes; hero and villain cross swords over a photocopier, wrestle on sleek chairs and desks, almost electrocute each other with a computer's exposed wires. The final blow, be warned, is a vertical slice through the bad guy's cranium. One wonders how many members of the audience will stay around...
...majority of the ballots of Mexico's 31.6 million registered voters in the July 4 presidential elections will not be tallied until this week, but Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, 47, a shy, Harvard-educated technocrat and lawyer, has nothing to worry about. He is sure to take office on Dec. 1 as Mexico's 21st President since its epochal revolution of 1910. Like most of his predecessors in the 53-year history of Mexico's monolithic and dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), De la Madrid was the personal choice of the man he was replacing...
That kind of morality does not sit well with the old-line machine politicians in the P.R.I., who also resent the fact that De la Madrid is a technocrat who has always stood above the rough and tumble of local politics. There were rumblings of unrest within the party when De la Madrid's nomination was announced, particularly since the P.R.I.'s then president, Javier Garcia Paniagua, was not informed of the choice beforehand. Nonetheless the tug of party loyalty, along with some selective purges, has apparently got the machine pols into line, although major power struggles...