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Article: Mexico's PRI travels a tough road as it tries to rebuild lost popularity.(Institutional Revolutionary Party)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- America's Insider
- Article date:
- July 12, 2001
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MEXICO CITY -- A little over a year ago, Antonio Tetzpa, thought his position as the official hair stylist for the Institutional Revolutionary Party was a long-term job. But a year after the July 2, 2000 general election that saw the PRI lose the presidency for the first time in more than seven decades, Tetzpa has moved out of party headquarters and set up his own barber shop.
"After the defeat, the private sector," he quipped. "Unfortunately for me and the PRI, everything was abandoned. There was no point in me staying. It was like a graveyard there."
His experience is similar to thousands of PRI workers and suppliers, many of whom have not been paid ...