Mexican Election Brings New Era.

• Author: Dillon, Sam
• Position: Brief Article

On July 2, Mexican voters ended the 71-year reign of the Institutional Revolutionary Party known as PRI, as Vicente Fox Quesada, candidate of the conservative National Action Party, won the presidency. It was the first democratic transition of power in Mexico's history.

For decades, the PRI held one-sided elections every six years. When real parties formed in the 1980s, the PRI responded with bribery, influence peddling, and sometimes, critics said, outright fraud to hold...