A lost left
FOR much of the past decade, the left-of-centre Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) could claim to be the main opposition to Mexico's long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). So the triumph of Vicente Fox, the candidate of the centre-right, in last month's presidential election has thrown not just the PRI into disarray, but the left too.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “A lost left”
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