The MexicoBlog of the CIP Americas Program monitors and analyzes international press on Mexico with a focus on the US-backed War on Drugs in Mexico and the struggle in Mexico to strengthen the rule of law, justice and protection of human rights. Relevant political developments in both countries are also covered.
Jun 29, 2012
Op-Ed: Turning Back or Moving On?
NY Times: It’s not hard to explain why, after 71 uninterrupted years in power, Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party lost the 2000 presidential elections. It earned its defeat through decades of authoritarianism, repression, injustice and corruption and, more recently, through a succession of economic crises that cost the country dearly. Poor PRI, as the party is known, it could no longer even fix elections. Read more.
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