Partido Revolucionario Institucional

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Partido Revolucionario Institucional

POLITICAL PARTY

The Institutional Revolutionary Party, known by its Spanish initials PRI, is a centrist political party in Mexico that maintained a stranglehold over the nation for over 70 years.

Starting as a revolutionary party focused on protecting the rights of the poor in the wake of the Mexican Revolution, PRI went on to symbolize corruption, electoral fraud, and privatization of previously nationalized industries.

PRI's leftist current schismed into a new party, Partido de la Revolución Democratica (PRD) shortly after the 1988 presidential elections. Widespread voter fraud swept PRI's candidate Carlos Salinas to the presidency even after exit polls predicted the triumph of the PRD's founder, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas.

The economic crisis of the 1970s/1980s saw the growth of a strong rightist opposition to PRI in the form of the Partido Accion Nacional (PAN), drawing funding mostly from businessmen in the north of the country.

1989 saw the first non-PRI state governorship in many decades in Baja California. With 2000 came the first non-PRI president in 70 years in the form of PAN's Vicente Fox.

Official Website:
http://www.pri.org.mx/

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Pedro Aspe Economist 7-Jul-1950 Mexican Minister of Finance, 1988-94

Manuel Ávila Camacho Head of State 24-Apr-1897 13-Oct-1955 President of Mexico, 1940-46

Cuauhtemoc Cardenas Politician 1-May-1934 Anti-PRI Mexican politician

Adolfo Ruiz Cortines Head of State 30-Dec-1890 3-Dec-1973 President of Mexico, 1952-58

Luis Echeverría Head of State 17-Jan-1922 President of Mexico, 1970-76

Miguel de la Madrid Head of State 12-Dec-1934 1-Apr-2012 President of Mexico, 1982-88

Adolfo López Mateos Head of State 26-May-1910 22-Sep-1969 President of Mexico, 1958-64

Enrique Peña Nieto Politician 20-Jul-1966 President of Mexico

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Politician 13-Nov-1953 Mayor of Mexico City

Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Head of State 12-Mar-1911 15-Jul-1979 President of Mexico, 1964-70

Ulises Ruiz Ortiz Politician 9-Apr-1958 Disputed governor of Oaxaca

José López Portillo Head of State 16-Jun-1920 17-Feb-2004 President of Mexico, 1976-82

Carlos Salinas Head of State 3-Apr-1948 President of Mexico, 1988-94

Miguel Alemán Valdés Head of State 29-Sep-1900 14-May-1983 President of Mexico, 1946-52

Ernesto Zedillo Head of State 27-Dec-1951 President of Mexico, 1994-2000

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