Mexico’s PRI Stages a Political Comeback

Posted on January 19, 2009 by mexicoinstitute

David Agren, World Politics Review, 1/19/2009
Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) ended 2008 on a roll. The party, which had ruled Mexico for 71 years until losing power in 2000, overwhelmingly swept local and legislative elections in five of the six states holding them last year. On the federal level, its federal lawmakers achieved legislative success [...]

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Shadow of vigilantes appears in Mexico drug war

Posted on January 19, 2009 by mexicoinstitute

Reuters, 1/19/2009
Shadowy vigilante groups are threatening Mexico’s drug gangs near the U.S. border in retaliation for a wave of murders and kidnappings that killed 1,600 people in this city alone last year. One group in the border city of Ciudad Juarez pledged last week to “clean our city of these criminals” and said their mission [...]

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