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050	0	0	_aF1236 _b.P72 2004
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100	1		_aPreston, Julia _d, 1951-
245	1	0	_aOpening Mexico _b: the making of a democracy _c/ Julia Preston and Samuel Dillon.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Farrar, Straus and Giroux _c, 2004.
300			_axii, 592 p. _b: ill. _c; 24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [519]-570) and index.
520			_aThe story of Mexico's political rebirth, by two pulitzer prize-winning reporters. This is a narrative history of the citizens' movement which dismantled the kleptocratic one-party state that dominated Mexico in the twentieth century, and replaced it with a lively democracy. Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party, led by presidents who ruled like Mesoamerican monarchs, came to be called "the perfect dictatorship." But a 1968 massacre of student protesters by government snipers ignited the desire for democratic change in a generation of Mexicans. Opening Mexico recounts the democratic revolution that unfolded over the following three decades. It portrays clean-vote crusaders, labor organizers, human rights monitors, investigative journalists, Indian guerrillas, and dissident political leaders, such as President Ernesto Zedillo-Mexico's Gorbachev. It traces the rise of Vicente Fox, who toppled the authoritarian system in a peaceful election in July 2000. Opening Mexico dramatizes how Mexican politics works in smoke-filled rooms, and profiles many leaders of the country's elite.
650		4	_aDemocracy _z-Mexico
650			_aPoliticians _z-Mexico _v--Biography
651		0	_aMexico _x--Politics and government
700	1		_aDillon, Samuel
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