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Article: Mexico City on the move: a new generation of artists and the debut of two museums in the nation's capital are energizing the contemporary art scene. (Report From Mexico).
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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Mexico's presidential election of last year resulted in a sweeping victory for Vicente Fox and his Alliance for Change Party, the first opposition group to gain control of the presidency in 71 years. Unlike the 2000 presidential election in the U.S., Mexico's was one of the least controversial and smoothest transfers of power in that nation's history. The country suddenly found itself facing the new millennium with a sense of cautious optimism.
Fox's ability to bring about lasting change has yet to be proved, but, in spite of ongoing economic problems, civil rights struggles and separatist movements in the states of Chiapas and the Yucatan, progressive attitudes ...