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| President of Mexico, 1934-1940. The last radical reformer to hold office |
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| introduced the principle of nonreelection into Mexican policitcs; de facto dictator of the country for a quarter century in the late ninteenth and early twentieth centuries |
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| Carlos de Gortari Salinas |
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| President of Mexico, 1988-1994; continued structural adjustment reforms; currently living in exile because of his family's involvement in scandals |
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| President of Mexico, 1982-1988; introduced structural adjustment reforms |
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| first non-PRI President of Mexico, elected in 2000 |
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| Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) |
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| they party that governed Mexico from 1927 to 2000 |
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| Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) |
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| Mexico's main left-of-center opposition |
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| National Action Party (PAN) |
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| the leading right-of-center opposition party in Mexico |
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| another term to describe the way people are integrated into the system via patron-client relations |
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| the six-year term of a Mexican president |
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| term used to describe Mexicans of mixed racial origin |
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| the way Mexican governments have used fraud to rig elections |
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| a politician's personal followin in a patron-client relationship |
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| Federal Election Commission (CFE) |
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| the old (and corrupt) body that supervised elections in Mexico |
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| Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) |
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| Created before the 1997 election to provide more honest management of elections in Mexico than its predecessor, CFE |
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| North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) |
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| Agreement linking the economies of Canada, Mexico, and the United States |
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| Newly Industrializing Countries (NICs) |
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| the handful of countries that have developed a strong industrial base and grown faster than most of the third world |
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| Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 |
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| U.S. law, passed in 1986, that limits the rights of immigrants, especially those from Mexico |
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| factory in Mexico (initialy on the U.S. border, now anywhere) that operates tax-free in manufacturing goods for export |
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| Mexico's nationalized petrochemical industry |
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| Confederation of Mexican Workers |
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| the official trade union affiliated with the PRI |
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| the massive accumulation of loans taken out by third world countries and owed to northern banks and governments from the 1970s onward |
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| development strategy that uses tariffs and other barriers to imports, and therefore stimulates domestic industries |
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| the notion that policies can shift from left to right as the balance of partisan power changes. In Mexico, reflects the fact that the PRI can move from one side to another on its own as circumstances warrant |
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| principle in Mexican political life that bars politicians from holding office for two consecutive terms |
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| 1997 Congressional Election |
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| 2000 Presidential Election |
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| first election where a non-PRI candidate was elected President |
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