The torch is passed: Salinas to Zedillo. (Mexican presidential candidate Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon) From: Commonweal | Date: May 6, 1994| Author: Grayson, George | COPYRIGHT 1994 Commonweal Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

President Carlos Salinas de Gortari has transformed not only Mexico's foreign economic policy but also its domestic political priorities. This fact was evident in his selection March 30 of Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon to replace the slain Luis Donaldo Colosio as the presidential nominee of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

Before Salinas unveiled his choice, old-line Priistas, the so-called "dinosaurs" who inhabit the party's labor and peasant sectors...