Opening Mexico (Magill’s Literary Annual 2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Samuel Dillon, Julia Preston
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Current affairs and history
- Time of Work: From the 1960's to 2004
- Setting: Mexico
- Principal Characters: Vicente Fox, Miguel de la Madrid, Carlos Salinas, Ernesto Zedillo, Francisco Labastida Ochoa, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs, History
- Subjects: Dictators, Politics, Twentieth century, Twenty-first century, Politicians, Corruption, Mexico or Mexicans, Democracy, Presidents, Latin America or Latin Americans, Heads of state, 2000’s
- Locales: Mexico
On July 2, 2000, Mexico changed, perhaps forever. On that date, Vicente Fox, the candidate of the opposition National Action Party (PAN) was elected president of Mexico. For the first time since the Mexican Revolution of 1911, an opposition candidate was chosen president in an open democratic election. In Opening Mexico, Julia Preston and Samuel Dillon relate the story of Mexico's single-party rule and its 2000 transition to a successful multiparty democracy in, as one would expect from two prizewinning newspaper correspondents, an involving journalistic style. Opening...
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