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The Fourth International’s English-language review, from 1982

The Event: Mexico: The PRD and the Social Movements

· International Viewpoint No. 292, September 1997 · p 6 · 107 words

Latin America

The Institutional Revolutionary Party's pseudo-socialist satellite parties saw their electoral support collapse. The

Greens, however, increased their vote.

The Partido Cardenista (PC, former

PFCRN or PST) and the Partido Popular

Socialista (PPS) both received less than 2% of the vote, and consequently lose their registration or ballot status

Another PRI puppet party, the

Workers Party (PT), headed by Alberto

Anaya, fell from being the fourth to the fifth national political party. Anaya and the PT, once creatures of former president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, have apparently finally understood the political changes taking place in

Mexico, and announce that they will not longer form alliance with the PRI.

← The Event: Mexico: PRD: Reasonable and Respectable? · The Event: Mexico: What's Left of the Mexican Left? →

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