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Article: Report from Mexico: open primaries for the PRI. (Institutional Revolutionary Party)
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- May 22, 1998
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Political murders, drug trafficking, police corruption, and the ongoing civil strife in Chiapas continue to dominate the headlines about Mexico in United States newspapers. It would be foolish to minimize the serious nature of these problems. Still, Mexico is also undergoing a slow but real political evolution that promises to bring more democratic and responsive government to a country that has known only one-party rule for nearly seven decades.
The nomadic Somalis have forty-five names for the camel because of the dromedary's crucial role in their lives. Similarly, Mexicans have a caravan of words to condemn corrupt practices perfected by the Institutional ...