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Article: The monster of Mexico: a newly elected reformer vows to clean up Mexico City. (Cuauhtemoc Cardenas)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- July 21, 1997
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When Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano erupted this month for the first time in 70-odd years, it was an event as unusual as the one it heralded: the biggest electoral victory for opposition parties since 1929. Mexico's virtual one-party rule ended on July 6 with a majority of voters choosing alternatives on both theright and the left for Congress.
But the most visible change came in Mexico City, where the first-ever elec- tions for mayor brought to office a popular leftist reformer who pledged to take on the vast problems that stumped past mayors--all appointed members of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
The mayor-elect is Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, ...