Mexico's new revolution.

From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: August 15, 1994| Author: Robinson, Linda; Congfer, Lucy | Copyright information

Mexico has made great strides towards a free-market economy under Pres Carlos Salinas, and is now working on democratic reform. The PRI party faces its first real challenge in 65 years, and a new voter-ID program has been instituted to prevent fraud.

Mexicans are spending their summer evenings watching a television series about former President Porfirio Diaz, whose 34-year dictatorship ended in a bloody revolution in 1910. By day, they are gripped by a volatile presidential electio...

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