Topic: Institutional Revolutionary Party

Mexico party formally names presidential candidate

0 . The party that ruled Mexico for most of the 20th century has officially named the candidate it hopes can wrest back the presidency in 2012.. ...

Mexico's Former Ruling Party Seeks Return

In July 2000, newspapers around the world carried political obituaries for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which had governed Mexico...

Mexico senators propose taxing food, medicine

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Senators from Mexico's chief opposition party submitted a bill on Thursday to tax most kinds of food, a move which could significantly boost government revenues if the proposal wins wider support within Congress.The proposal, published on a ...

Mexican mayor-elect is killed, 12th this year

The mayor-elect of a small town in Oaxaca state has been slain, police have said, on the heels of 11 murders of mayors in Mexico so far this year.Antonio Jimenez, who was about to take over the mayor's post in ...

Labour and taxation

About two-thirds of the Mexican labour force is employed in the service sector and about one-sixth in manufacturing. The right to engage in strikes (labour stoppages) is guaranteed by law, and a large percentage of Mexican workers are unionized. The largest and ...

Cousin of governor-elect among 13 slain in Mexico

A cousin of the governor-elect of Chihuahua state was shot and killed Tuesday, one of 13 slayings in the violence-scarred area near the US border over the past day, officials said.Authorities said among the victims Tuesday was Alberto Porras Duarte, a ...

PRI claims victory in Mexico's state elections

Mexico's opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party that ruled the country for most of the past century claimed victory in state elections marked by violent crime."The results that we have in hand show that our victory was convincing in the areas where ...
Mexican media reports: Candidate for governorship of northern Mexico state slain by gunmenMexican television networks and newspapers are reporting that a front-running candidate for governor in northern Tamaulipas state has been shot to death.Government spokesmen say they cannot confirm the reports ...

Adolfo Ruiz Cortines

Aspects of the topic Adolfo Ruiz Cortines are discussed in the following places at Britannica. Suffrage in Mexico doubled when President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines enfranchised women with a constitutional amendment in 1953, though they did not actually vote until 1958.

Elections in Mexico Whats the Use

She states that the presidency and the country's long-ruling party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), were the pillars of an authoritarian political power consolidated during the second half of the past century. She thinks that authoritarianism disguised as political democracy widened ...