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" During the Fox administration, Mexico turned into a more violent country than Colombia; Calderon's task is to recover lost ground and clean it up. "
Denise Dresser
Fox
Clean
Country
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" There are too many unions, monopolists, and bureaucrats that behave like hungry sharks, accustomed to feeding off oil revenues and appropriating the extraordinary wealth that Mexico produces but does not share in an equitable and democratic way. "
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" Those who voted for Vicente Fox endorsed his call for change - better economic management, less crime, and less corruption - and they expect him to deliver. "
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" Ignoring party leaders in order to sway public opinion may work in countries where elected representatives are responsive to their constituencies. But in Mexico, members of the legislature cannot be reelected, so their destinies depend less on the will of the people than on party bosses. "
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" The Chapultepec Accord is a pact among concessionaires to protect concessions. "
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" Mexico isn't a country of routine debates among presidential candidates. "
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" Canada has a stand on human rights in many places, just not when Donald Trump violates them in Latino neighbourhoods. "
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" The PRI can afford to push democratization; it can afford to be generous because it has a very good chance of winning in clean elections. "
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" Pena Nieto is a product of the two television networks that groomed him for power and then propelled him to the presidency. "
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Two
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" Latin America's economies are organized in a way that concentrates wealth in a few hands but then leaves it untaxed, depriving governments of the resources needed to invest in their citizens' human capital. "
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" While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reaches out to embrace suffering Syrians, his government seems ready to throw embattled Mexicans under the bus just to appease Mr. Trump. "
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" Canadians have much to be proud of and much to teach the world about compassion. "
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" Suddenly, I'm like this political Ann Landers, which is a role I'd never envisioned for myself. "
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Like
Myself
Never
" Governments that don't need to broaden their tax base have few incentives to respond to the needs of their people. "
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People
Respond
" I tweet 20 times a day, not only about Mexican politics, but about film, books, restaurants, U.S. politics. "
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Books
Day
" When former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari passed the torch to Zedillo, he knew that economic difficulty lay ahead but believed that the Yale-trained economist's impeccable technical credentials would be enough to maintain Mexico's stability. "
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Mexico
Enough
Ahead
" Jesse Helms has historically been identified as an enemy of Mexico; therefore, by definition, anyone who opposes him is a friend of Mexico. "
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Enemy
" The tin man vs. the straw man. The candidate with a brain but without a heart against the president with a heart but without a brain. That's how many Latin Americans are viewing the race between John Kerry and George W. Bush. "
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Man
Without
Straw
" The PRI portrays itself as the force of the center, of stability. "
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Stability
Itself
Center
" Vicente Fox beat the PRI by gambling on a simple formula: Marketing + Money = Presidency. "
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Fox
Gambling
Simple
" Mexico is trapped by a dense network of rent-seekers and monopolies in sectors that are crucial for economic growth, including telecommunications, energy, transportation, and financial services. "
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Mexico
Energy
Financial
" It would be a mistake to view Camacho as the beacon of democracy in Mexico. He has played by the PRI's rules for more than 15 years. As mayor of Mexico City, he was recognized as a political broker, not as an apostle of substantive political reform. "
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Mistake
City
Democracy
" For Mexicans, corruption is not a deal breaker. "
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Corruption
Deal
Mexicans
" The problem with Mexico isn't so much the men who govern but the lack of rules to govern by and the absence of institutions to rule with. "
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Absence
Men
Problem
" PRONASOL repositions the PRI as a welfare machine. "
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Machine
Welfare
" In Mexico, the perception of power is power. "
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Power
Perception
Mexico
" It would indeed be fortunate for Mexico if a new era of PRI presidencies were a sign of healthy rotation in power rather than a regrettable step backwards. "
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" The Left discovered that its post-electoral strategy of constant confrontation was actually helping Felipe Calderon and his popularity instead of undermining it. So Marcelo Ebrard, the mayor of Mexico City, who's a very savvy politician, he changed course. He decided to actually govern instead of simply trying to bring the Calderon government down. "
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Down
Government
Strategy
" Democratic Latin America limps sideways because it can't run ahead. There are too many entry barriers to the poor, the innovative, and those without access to credit. "
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Poor
America
" Mexico City is being used as a laboratory to send the message throughout the rest of Mexico that the Left can govern. That here, it can be different, and it can actually get things under control and provide an alternative to the National Action Party and its conservative views. "
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Party
Rest
" Spoiling my ballot paper is the only way I can see of stripping the system of legitimacy, shaking it up, and reforming it so that it favours citizens. "
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I Can
Way
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