On Fri, 4 Aug 2000 06:48:57 -0500 (CDT) Chiapas95 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -- This message is forwarded to you by the editors of the Chiapas95 newslists. To contact the editors write to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To submit material for posting send to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. From: "Mauricio Banda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Reut] Mexico PRI rebels formally demand Zedillo expulsion Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 22:32:27 GMT Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: * Fox Seeks End of U.S. Certification * Mexico PRI rebels formally demand Zedillo expulsion * Fox Seeks End of U.S. Certification By ELOY O. AGUILAR, Associated Press Writer Wednesday August 2 2:48 AM ET MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's president-elect will ask for an end to the unilateral U.S. certification of Latin American countries' anti-drug efforts when he meets with President Clinton, aides said. The certification program has long been criticized as a symbol of U.S. domination. Countries that refuse to participate risk losing trade benefits and possible access to international loans. Aguilar Zinser, a foreign relations adviser to President-elect Vicente Fox, said the United States should join an ``international process'' that would allow the formation of a regional anti-narcotics group made up of countries fighting the drug trade. Another proposal Fox planned to bring to Clinton during their Aug. 24 meeting at the White House was creating a ``border czar'' who would direct a Mexican agency coordinating federal and state forces and who would work with the United States on border issues. Fox, who will be formally certified as Mexico's president-elect on Wednesday, also plans to meet with Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush during meetings in Washington and Dallas. He will present his ``future vision for a profound relationship with the partners in the North American Free Trade Agreement,'' said Jorge Castaneda, a Fox foreign relations adviser. Fox has said he would like to expand the trade bloc into a common market allowing the free movement of workers between borders - an idea likely to meet opposition in the United States. On July 2, Fox became the first opposition presidential candidate to defeat a member of Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which has been in power since 1929. Fox's pro-business stance, and the close ties between the PRI and Mexico's largest unions, had led to concerns about possible labor unrest when he takes office Dec. 1. Fox met Tuesday with labor leaders in an attempt to head off any such disputes. Leonardo Rodriguez Alcaine of the pro-government Mexican Workers Confederation said afterward that Fox promised to respect unions and work rules, and the two had found ``some common ground.'' Rodriguez Alcaine had said before the elections that he would call a general strike if Fox won; he later backed off that threat and claimed he had been misinterpreted. Fox held a somewhat warmer meeting with leaders of the smaller, independent National Workers Union, despite their opposition to his proposal to apply sales taxes to food and medicines. Meanwhile, dissident PRI members called Tuesday for President Ernesto Zedillo to be expelled after he presided over the party's first presidential loss in 71 years. Zedillo's grip weakened further Tuesday when the man he had reportedly supported to take over the PRI's top post - Jesus Murillo Karam - announced he would leave the party leadership. Copyright CR 2000 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. * Mexico PRI rebels formally demand Zedillo expulsion 01 Aug 2000 23:37 MEXICO CITY, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Rebels in Mexico's ruling party, angered by its first presidential election defeat in 71 years, formally petitioned on Tuesday for President Ernesto Zedillo to be expelled. Five moderately influential factions in the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) also demanded the expulsion of Zedillo's predecessor, Carlos Salinas, accusing both of undermining the PRI through neoliberal, free-market economic policies. "We formally request the firm expulsion of Carlos Salinas and Ernesto Zedillo," said Martin Sanchez, coordinator of the PRI's Social Movement for National Democracy, one of the groups presenting the petition. Unaccustomed to defeat, the PRI has been riven by internal power struggles between pro-Zedillo technocrats, mainly U.S.-educated economists, and the "dinosaurs" -- old-style PRI politicians closely associated with vote fraud, paternalism and fierce nationalism. The PRI was founded in 1929 to bring a fractured Mexico together after the bloodshed of the 1910-17 Revolution. It began life with a paternalistic and populist ideology but in recent decades, its principles became more fuzzy, and its main aim appeared to be the retention of power. Under Salinas, who ruled from 1988-1994, and Zedillo, whose six-year term ends in December, Mexico has firmly embraced the free market. Many state enterprises have been sold off, its borders have been opened to trade and Mexico has adopted the so-called neoliberal economic policies of fiscal and monetary discipline promoted by the International Monetary Fund. Sanchez said the governments of Salinas and Zedillo pursued economic and social policies that were contrary to the PRI's basic populist and paternal spirit. He criticized the privatization of banks and state firms, and hikes in taxes. Earlier this month, the five factions said they would stage a symbolic trial of Zedillo on Aug. 23, accusing him of being a traitor to the party for so quickly acknowledging the PRI's defeat in the July 2 general election. Vicente Fox, of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), will become Mexico's first non-PRI president in seven decades when he is sworn in on Dec. 1. COPYRIGHT: CR 2000 Reuters Limited. 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