For those who know more about Mexico than I do: what would have happened if PRI presidential candidate Luis Colosio had not been assassinated in 1994?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Donaldo_Colosio
FWIW, Sidney Weintraub in *Financial Decision-Making in Mexico: To Bet A Nation*, p. 56 writes that "a number of informed Mexican commentators--Sergio Sarmiento in *Reforma*, for one--have remarked that Mexico's political history would have been different had Colosio become president and carried out what his initial campaigning implied." Weintraub notes (pp. 53-4) that Colosio's March 6 speech was widely regarded as a declaration of independence from PRI traditionalists:
"The times have passed when our political fights could take place essentiailly within our organization and not with other parties...Old practices must be left behind, those of a PRI that talks only within itself and with the government...Today, before the *priismo* of Mexico, before the Mexicans, I state my promise to reform the power by democratizing it and put an end to any vestige of authoritarianism...Returning power signifies bringing the government to the communities by means of a new federalism...Transparency [of the election] requires the participation of observers, both of our own citizens and international visitors, and not exclusion of those who can provide the most complete testimony...The great demand of Mexico is democracy."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Donaldo_Colosio
FWIW, Sidney Weintraub in *Financial Decision-Making in Mexico: To Bet A Nation*, p. 56 writes that "a number of informed Mexican commentators--Sergio Sarmiento in *Reforma*, for one--have remarked that Mexico's political history would have been different had Colosio become president and carried out what his initial campaigning implied." Weintraub notes (pp. 53-4) that Colosio's March 6 speech was widely regarded as a declaration of independence from PRI traditionalists:
"The times have passed when our political fights could take place essentiailly within our organization and not with other parties...Old practices must be left behind, those of a PRI that talks only within itself and with the government...Today, before the *priismo* of Mexico, before the Mexicans, I state my promise to reform the power by democratizing it and put an end to any vestige of authoritarianism...Returning power signifies bringing the government to the communities by means of a new federalism...Transparency [of the election] requires the participation of observers, both of our own citizens and international visitors, and not exclusion of those who can provide the most complete testimony...The great demand of Mexico is democracy."