Who Will AMLO Have Voted for in 1988?
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AMLO not only turned his back on the values of progressive democracy championed by Cárdenas, he embraced the authoritarian tendencies of the Institutional Revolutionary prior to the democratic transition
We followed, until very early in the morning, the session of the Federal Electoral Commission, an immediate precedent of the IFE, which led that illustrious —it is a sarcasm— populace who, moreover, was Secretary of the Interior of President Miguel de la Madrid. Bartlett, today a workman. A week later I participated for the first time in a political march. With my mother, my father and my brother, we left for the Municipal Palace of Atizapán to …
Unfortunately, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas left this world on October 28, at the age of 92, in Mexico City. Among the most outstanding achievements of “El Ingeniero” is that he competed three times for the presidency, in addition to being governor of Michoacan and in 1977, he became the first head of government of the late Federal District, being elected by popular vote. But although he never came to the presidency, his 1988 candidacy changed the politi…
On the night of July 6, 1988, the screens of the Mexican electoral system stopped showing results when the first data favored Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano, candidate of the National Democratic Front (FDN), in front of PRI Carlos Salinas de Gortari. The interruption, known as the “fall of the system,” became one of the most controversial episodes in the country’s political history.
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