The dinosaurs suffocate
The PRI looks wearier than ever
WHEN, 65m years ago, an asteroid that fell near the Yucatan peninsula wiped out the world's dinosaurs, it did not exterminate them all at once, but triggered changes to the atmosphere that gradually killed off the survivors. Likewise, defeat in last year's presidential election ended seven decades of rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) but did not kill it. However, in Mexico's more democratic atmosphere, traditional PRI leaders, known as “dinosaurs”, are slipping away one by one. And with them goes much of the party's political strength.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “The dinosaurs suffocate”
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