Word: michoacan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those words had a hollow ring in the state of Michoacan, where the results of the state legislature's race -- another of the five state elections held last week -- remain hotly contested by Cuauhtemoc Cardenas and his Democratic Revolutionary Party (P.R.D.). The old pattern of fraud and stolen elections seemed to be reasserting itself as the P.R.I. claimed to have won ten of the 18 electoral districts while the P.R.D., alleging widespread irregularity, insisted that it had carried 15 districts. At a press conference on election day, Cardenas accused the P.R.I. of cheating by changing the location of the casillas...
...avoided the lure of politics until 1980, when, with the P.R.I.'s backing, he was elected governor of his home state of Michoacan. By the end of his term in 1986, Cardenas was voicing doubts about the P.R.I.'s commitment to Mexico's poor. He was quickly informed by party leaders that such comments were unwelcome, even from governors with illustrious names...
...campaign, it amounted to a disaster for Salinas. Though even Cardenas did not directly accuse the P.R.I. of complicity in the crime, many Mexicans expressed skepticism about the police statement that Ovando had probably been gunned down by criminals he had prosecuted while attorney general in the state of Michoacan...
...Montejano, 30, an up-and-comer in the Los Angeles fashion world, weaves her favorite colors -- fuchsia, chartreuse and orange -- into her fabrics with yards of colored ribbon sewn onto black taffeta. "Using bright colors this way draws on my heritage," she says. "When I was a girl in Michoacan, Mexico, I admired the way even the poorest people made use of color. They take raw color and use it in a very honest...
Cardenas, son of the populist Lazaro Cardenas, who nationalized Mexico's oil industry during his 1934-40 presidency, is all too aware of how entrenched that system is. A former governor of the state of Michoacan, Cardenas with other top P.R.I. officials attempted in 1986 to democratize the party's method of selecting presidential candidates. When they failed, Cardenas accepted the nomination of the leftist Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution and has since forged an alliance with four left-wing parties. "P.R.I. underestimated Cardenas immensely," says Castaneda. "Now the more they antagonize him, the stronger he gets...