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Hopes and fears in Cardoso’s Brazil
What will Fernando Henrique Cardoso’s first-round victory in the October 3 presidential elections mean for Brazil? Have things reached a turning-point in Brazil, a country where everything is on a gigantic scale distances, potential capacities, social inequalities and even passions? Or is this going to be just another of the country’s many disappointments? To find…
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The Mexican presidential elections: continuity or change?
There have been discordant interpretations of the outcome to the Mexican elections of 21 August. Some observers view it as a flop for the Pri (Partido revolucionario institucional), in power for sixty years. Despite winning the elections, the Pri saw the vote for its candidate Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León drop under the fifty per…
