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[edit] Flag colors

<<Heavily criticized for using the arrangement of the mexican flag colors for its logo (something normal in countries like the United States, but frowned upon in Mexico) >>

The reason for this criticism was quite valid.

Many Mexican voters in rural communities were (and are) functionally illiterate and relied on the logo's colors to identify the party. The use of the Mexican flag colors was initially reserved for the PRI (The PAN was allotted a blue and white logo, and the leftist PRD a yellow and black logo).

This gave many voters the impression that the PRI was effectively the party of the state (a fairly true impression until around 1997), and the opposition parties were against the state and perhaps dangerous to the established order. This, coupled with the very real fear that a community that voted against the PRI would suffer losses of funding and state harassment; helped maintain the PRI majority for so many decades.

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<<The Institutional Revolutionary Party (Spanish: Partido Revolucionario Institucional or PRI) held power in Mexico for more than 70 years.>>

The PRI governed Mexico for 71 years.


The two wings of the PRI are:

1. an old-fashioned, conservative wing, so-called "dinosaurs"

2. a neoliberal, technocrat wing


Inner-party democratization process:

first wave: mid-eighties under Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzanos, finally, towards the presidential election in 1988, he and many of his supporters split up to form the roots of the PRD

second wave: 1994-2000 (under Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León). By 2000 the PRI was the only Mexican party to hold up an open preelection to select their presidential candidate.


Overall, Zedillo made great contributions to enhance democracy in Mexico: he weakened the role of the president with constitutional reforms, made the IFE (Instituto Federal Electoral) independent, unconditionally recognized the opposition's victories (first on state level, than on national level in 2000).

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<<The economic stability during Vicente Fox, first non-PRI president after the Revolution, is due in great part through the work of PRI-members, such as Francisco Gil Díaz (Secretary of Finance) and Guillermo Ortiz (Banco de México).>>

The original sentence quoted above is flawed for various reasons, including that the ecomic stability during Vicente Fox's tenure was also developed partially through the Zedillo administration's executive power and cooperation, not by ministers under Fox's administration. Fox merely kept previous stabilizing policies and deepened others. Therefore, the sentence will be split into two more historically, academically, and grammatcially correct sentences so as to say: "Greater economic stability since the 1995 peso crises was achieved in great part through economic reforms begun under Zedillo. Subsequent administrations maintained stability with continued assistance from PRI members such as Secretary of Finance Francisco Gil Diaz and Bank of Mexico head Guillermo Ortiz."

[edit] PRI not "authoritarian"?

Some academics discuss whether the PRI regime can even be considered totalitarian or authoritarian. (from the first paragraph)

Could someone cite a source for these academics? While I'd agree that PRI rule was not totalitarian, the belief that it wasn't authoritarian would be a fringe view. --metzerly 03:55, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

I corrected the fact Mario Vargas Llosa´s statement was made in 1990 and not in 2000. I was the one to wrote about PRI´s definition as totalitarian or authoritarian. The last point of view it´s supported by people like Soledad Loaeza, Federico Reyes Heroles, Jesús Silva Herzog Junior...all people who had benefits in some way of PRI´s regime. I know by experience it was the worst ("perfect") dictatorship, but that was my personal experience.

Octavio Paz called it a dictatorship also in the original edition of his book "Conjunciones y Disyunciones" (1969) but that was banned in later editions. Posmodern2000

[edit] NPOV Tag Removed

The NPOV tag was added by an anonymous editor who didn't sign any comment on this talk page; nor are they any serious POV discussions here. I'm removing it. --01:59, 12 August 2006 (UTC)