The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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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