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Mexico: Trotskyist Leader Explains That the Ruling Party Won the Recent Elections by Fraud

International Viewpoint No. 213, 30 September 1991 · p 17 · 129 words

Latin America Fourth International

Electoral fraud and

CONTRARY to the claims of the Mexican government, which have been widely reproduced in the international press, the elections to parliament and half of the senate of August 18, 1991, were among the most fraudulent in Mexican history.

International Viewpoint talked to Edgar Sanchez, a member of the leadership of the Revolutionary Workers Party (PRT — Mexican section of the Fourth International), who was a candidate in these elections on the Socialist Electoral Front (FES) slate, about the current social and political situation in his country. The interview was conducted by Paquita Gomez in Mexico City on August 22,

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1991. W ERE the elections of

August 18, 1991 as clean as the government media has been claiming?

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