Tag Archives: Lázaro Cárdenas del Río

The Rise and Fall of Mexico’s First Great Political Party

By JESSICA GUERRERO Mexico’s independent life as a republic began in 1821, 200 years ago. But the first hundred years of the country’s autonomy were dizzying and plagued with numerous internal conflicts. These events and circumstances unleashed the Mexican Revolution that broke out in 1910, and consisted of a civil war between several regional revolutionary forces against the authoritarian regime of

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Mexico’s First Great Leftist Force, the Party of the Democratic Revolution

By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán —  Mexican politics have been radically redefined in the last decade. The three great political bastions that historically had disputed the leadership and hegemony of the country went from an almost-lifetime splendor and permanence to a general crisis that has very nearly caused their dissolution. One of the oldest parties in modern Mexican history is the

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