someone who knows mexico very well...HELP?

Question

for geography, we have to make a drawing of mexico (one side old mexico, the other side new mexico.not the state)

and in the drawing i have to include references to PRI. PAN, the legacy of vicente fox, and the 2006 election)

can somone give me a brief summary of what those things me?

Answer 1

The PRI is the Partido Revolutionario Institucional (Institutional Revolutionary Party) - this political party grew out of the Mexican Revolution 1910-1921. It ruled Mexico from 1929 until finally defeated by Vicente Fox of the PAN in the elections of 2000. It was an extremely corrupt party which has been accused of election fraud, vast corruption and even the murder of oponents and even reformers within its own party. (Luis Donaldo Colosio). Its policies have always been slightly leftist and it would be most closely described as a "Liberal Party"

The PAN is the Partido Acción Nacional (National Action Party) was founded in the early 1940s to fight against the massive corruption and abuses of power of the PRI. It was originally closely aligned with the Catholic Church (as the PRI has always been dominated by anti-Catholic secularists). After decades of struggle as Mexico's second party without success, the PAN fell to third place in the presidencial elections of 1988. This caused a radical and complete change in the formation of the PAN. It lost its "Catholic" orientation became a modern Moderate-Consevative party in the western sense. Immediately and finally it began to win governorships and local elections across Mexico culminating in the 2000 elections, where for the first time it elected its candidate, Vicente Fox as President of Mexico, ending the corrupt 71 year rule of the PRI.

The PRD is the Partido de la Revolución Democratica (Party of the Democratic Revolution) - in 1988 a breakaway member of the PRI, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, the governor of Michoacan State and son of former Mexican President, Lazaro Cárdenas formed an anti-PRI group of several leftist and socialist parties and organizations to contest the 1988 elections as the "National Democratic Front."

He almost won and many people claimed he lost only because of massive fraud by the PRI. (At one point the Minister of Energy, Manuel Barlett, ordered the power turned off across the entire country during the vote count!)

In 1989 the groups making up the National Democratic Front came together to form a new socialist style party under the name PRD.

During the elections of 2006, the PAN was re-elected with about 35.6% of the national vote, the PRD came second with 35.1% and the once mighty PRI trailed way behind in third place with only about 22%. The closeness of the election has sparked calls by the PRD that there was "massive fraud" but all international and national observers, media and the Mexican Election Institute have found very little and have declared the results to be honest, fair and official.

You can use all of this I'm sure to search for more data, I hope this helps!

Answer 2

the PRI and PAN r like the democrats and republicans here.