"Triumph" rooted in fraud
International Viewpoint #260 October 1994
DESPITE all our hopes, and the grave crisis in the Mexican State, the election results on 21 August were disappointing. The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) won both the presidential and parliamentary elections with just under 50% of the vote, the more rightwing National Action Party (PAN) achieved nearly 30% while Cardenismo, in the form of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) took only 16%. To try to find out why the expectation of peaceful electoral change was frustrated is not merely an intellectual exercise but a distressing necessity for the leftwing democratic movement. HECTOR DE LA CUEVA* Mexico City