Mexico: Right Turn.(presidential elections)(Brief Article)

From: National Review | Date: July 31, 2000 | Copyright information

Vicente Fox Quesada, the new president-elect of Mexico, was not the handpicked choice of his predecessor-the first time in 70 years a true outsider has won a Mexican election. For pushing through the election reforms that allowed such a massive change to occur, the outgoing president Ernesto Zedillo deserves the credit that Gorbachev got but didn't earn, and that F. W. de Klerk earned but didn't get.

Fox's party, the PAN, was originally a small party of Catholic business...

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