Mexican Political History
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They are digging their own grave
After they lost the Presidency and the congress, the PRI leaders seem to be clueless aboout their future. They look for leadership, and they are looking in the wrong direction.
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If you want peace, get ready for war
Vicente Fox is making very serioous efforts to achieve peace in Chiapas, by movilizing the army and accepting treaties, yet it will be impossible to keep with the ever cahnging demands of the zapatista guerrilla.
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Those who no one voted for
When a President rose to power all the country knew him, they knew what he done and what he had the right to do, but the stories of what his family does are usually revealed after he leaves office, and sometimes that is too late.
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Dear Mrs. President
The first lady is the loyal companion, his support in difficult times and the one who ultimately will fall with him.
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From Juarez to Fox
President Benito Juarez signed the laws that deminished thepower of the church, for more than a century the church stayed in an ambiguous position until the 1990's. Now, with a Christian President that could change even more.
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The first of many clashes
Vicente Fox is now the President of the Mexican United States, he has not engaged yet in the many battles that are coming, but what happened on his inauguration day indicates what to expect.
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President Fox
Today, December 1st is inauguration day, for the last 71 years a PRI memeber has been inaugurated. Not now, today Vicente Fox will become the 64th President of the Mexican United States.
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It is an all out war
When first sworn as President Ernesto Zedillo was regarded as Carlos Salina's puppet, he proved otherwise, but he did it with the power of the Presidency. Now Zedillo will leave office and confront Salinas as a private citizen.
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We were always certain
In the state party era the people always knew who their next President would be, we never face ancertainty like the American people is now because we knew that the PRI candidate was the sure winner.
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A god is born
When the President chose his successor, he does it for many reasons, personal, political, ideological and historic. But deep in his heart he does it because he wants to keep pulling the strings.
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A god in born
When the President chose his successor, he does it for many reasons, personal, political, ideological and historic. But deep in his heart he does it because he wants to keep pulling the strings.
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Thou sall not speak
It was not hard to be President, the hard part was being ex-president, they had to respect the established rule to retire and remain silent on public affairs, for life.
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An essential element in our sovereignty
For years the country worshipped oil almost as a god, monuments were erected to oil, speeches were given honoring oil, and schoolchildren wrote songs and poems to the nation’s “black oil.” Finally it's seen as a product.
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The President's party
Lazaro Cardenas was the first President to place the state party under his rule. Every single President until Zedillo controlled the party with an iron fist. Now, crumbling and without leadership the once mighty PRI is in danger.
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Certain alienated rights
For many decades mexicans lived without the right to express themselves. Unless they had good opinions on the state party. On recent years this has changed, Mexico is finally free to speak.
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For the first time in decades
In 1997 Mexico city held, for the first time in decades, elections to elect it's Mayor. Campaign was one of the most intense and aggressive of those remembered. It was a prelude to what happened nationally in the 2000 Presidential elections.
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Thank you, brother
Mexico city lived the worst tragedy in its history when the September 1985 earthquake killed thousands. Government was incompetent, so citizens took the rescue efforts in its hands.
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The Country's Top Diplomat
In the early 1960's Mexico had a booming economy and was a gaining the respect of other nations, and even though there was repression Adolfo Lopez Mateos was a loved and popular President.
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When the President Cried
The story of the last state of the Union message of Mexico's President Jose Lopez Portillo (1976-1982) Who never accepted responsibility for the economic crisis that began in 1981 and lasted the entire decade.
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The day the system fell
A chronicle of the events that tooks place in the mexico of the late eighties. Which resulted in the controversial rise of Carlos Salinas to the presidency.
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