The Fall Of The PRI In Mexico

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The fall of the PRI in Mexico
The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Partido Revolucionario Institucional, was known as the ‘official’ party of Mexico. The PRI ruled the government, with little to no opposition from 1929 to the new millennium. The party held a power almost equal to the actual President of Mexico, who naturally came from the PRI party. The PRI was founded by Plutarco Elías Calles [1] in 1929, originally named the National Revolutionary Party (PNR or Partido Nacional Revolucionario), then Partido de la Revolucion Mexicana (PRM or Party of the Mexican Revolution) by Lázaro Cárdenas in 1938[2]. The current name PRI was given to the group by Manuel Ávila Camacho in 1946. The party was mixed with involvement from some small political and military influences along with several local labor unions and peasant groups, the party served as a group that organized and contained political competition among the leaders of the various revolutionary groups. PRI’s role was to stop the power struggles that were occurring during the Mexican Revolution, if the issues of power were all solved within the party the negative effects of possible armed rebellions and congressional gridlock would not happen in Mexico.
The party was in full control of Mexican politics, Calles controlled most of the government and even after his presidency his influenced was still greatly enforced through his manipulation of the PNR. Being that Calles was the leader of the PNR, it was only right that his successor believe in his political views, which is why each successor that followed him was handpicked by him until the 1930’s were Lázaro Cárdenas took a stand for change. Calles reign of power ended in 1935 due to the mass support of Cárdenas wit...

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...lays the perfect politician, the candidates run just for one reason, for power. I do not see any true intentions from the leaders of the party; the purpose of the government is to lead and protect the people. And the PRI is just too busy buying the electoral vote to actually stop and listen to what the people want, they focus so much on the rich in the cities and not enough on the small towns and villages of Mexico. Most of the Mexican citizens are questioning the PRI on their new policies, what solution are they going to come up with to help crackdown crime and drug trafficking in Mexico. I do think that the PRI can change but to do that, the PRI must get rid of all the old leaders of the party and make room for change. And when you think about the government in Mexico you definitely compare is power issues to certain political groups that we have and American.

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