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Article: Cracks in the P.R.I. monolith? (Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party)
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- The Nation
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- June 29, 1985
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On the eve of crucial midterm elections, the Mexican government has been shaken by spiraling inflation, punitive border closings by the United States and high-level drug scandals. On July 7, Mexicans go to the polls to choose 400 representatives to the Chamber of Deputies, seven governors, 155 local representatives and 836 mayors. For the first time in its fifty-six-year reign, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), Latin America's most venerable political institution, is running scared.
Last December, a violent confrontation in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, directly across the Rio Grande from Eagle Pass, Texas, dramatized the growing opposition to the ...