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Article: What's next for Mexico?(Vicente Fox plans to deal with Mexico's problems)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- July 17, 2000
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MEXICO CITY--Vicente Fox could hardly believe his good fortune. Exactly 24 hours after the maverick opposition candidate swept the world's longest-ruling party from power in a landslide victory, he was waiting to be received by the current Mexican president, Ernesto Zedillo. Gazing out on the manicured lawns of the presidential palace, the mustachioed rancher-businessman turned to a close aide and said in wonder: "Did you ever think it would be so easy?" Indeed, the outcome was so decisive that the mighty Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), prodded by Zedillo, didn't even wait for the final vote tally before conceding its historic defeat. Now comes the hard part: the ...